Back Flicker

Sources

IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.

Sources agree (6 fields)

theme
Show Business IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
credit
Dick White — Art IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
technology_generation
solid-state IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
production_quantity
1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
player_count
2 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
ipdb_id
5103 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog

Single source (9 fields)

ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
IPDB Bally used
ipdb.corporate_entity_name
IPDB Bally Manufacturing Corporation used
ipdb.image_urls
IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5103/image-15.jpg"] used
ipdb.notes
IPDB Engineer Jeff Frederiksen of Dave Nutting Associates designed this engineering prototype for Bally, converting an EM version of Bally's 1975 'Flicker' having serial number #1074. In our Files section is an interesting GameRoom article written and provided to us by Alexis Tzannes that details the chance "discovery" of this prototype in 1998 and its place in history as the basis for Mirco Games, Inc.'s 1975 'Spirit of 76' and other solid state games that followed. The original Bally Brain card was lost prior to 1998 but was recreated in 2011 and installed in this game. Patent 4,093,232 [Player operated game apparatus] filed May 13, 1975, granted June 6, 1978 to David J. Nutting and Jeffrey E. Frederiksen, assignee is Bally Manufacturing Corporation. used
ipdb.notable_features
IPDB Unlike the EM version, hitting the A-B-C-D targets in sequence awards extra bonus points in addition to lighting the double bonus. Game was controlled by the "Bally Brain" which is a small board with a microprocessor on it that clips into two connectors on the backbox motherboard. It was based on the Intel 4-bit 4004, the world's first single-chip microprocessor. used
corporate_entity
Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
title
Flipcommons Catalog flicker-4 used
name
Flipcommons Catalog Flicker used
slug
Flipcommons Catalog flicker-5 used