- credit
- Don Hooker — Design
- gameplay_feature
- Kick-Out Holes ×7
- gameplay_feature
- Trap Holes ×25
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 993
- ipdb.image_urls
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- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.model_number
- 566
- ipdb.notable_features
- Trap holes (25), Kick-out holes (7). One Card, 3 Magic-Lines. Holes 1 to 7 are Magic-Pockets, player-controlled kick-out holes that can transfer the balls left or right along that top row. During game play, only holes 2 to 6 perform as 2-way kick-out holes. Hole 7 has 2-way capability but only kicks to the right at start of game, when all balls in this row are kicked to the right to vacate the row, with Hole 7 kicking each of them to its right, rebounding off of the spring and onto the playfield to eventually drain.
Patent No. 2,864,620 [BALL TRANSFER AND SWITCH MEANS] filed March 12, 1956. Granted June 5, 1956 to Donald E. Hooker and Charles G. Troeller, Inventors.
- ipdb.notes
- At start of game, draining any balls that rested in the top row of holes took extra time, causing the player to have to wait, because these balls had to be kicked out onto the playfield to roll down the playfield as slowly as if they were in play. Undoubtedly, operator and player feedback caused a change in design to drain these balls faster, as seen on the playfield of Bally's 1955 'Gay Time', a subsequent game where a ball return hole was placed next to Hole 7 and where, at the start of the game, balls in this top row were kicked towards and into this hole, bypassing the slow roll down the playfield.
Reportedly, this ball return hole solution may have been implemented at some point during the production run of Gayety. If anyone has seen or has access to a Gayety machine having this top row ball return hole, please contact us.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical