- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 1149
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/1149b.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/Backglass.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/Overall_view.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/image-8.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/image-9.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1149/image-11.png"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.model_number
- 488
- ipdb.notable_features
- 5 cents per play. Game ends after 3 outs or 4 minute of play.
- ipdb.notes
- Operated as a counter game or with a floor stand.
Bally's documentation shows a Project Date of 02-02-48 for this Model 488 Heavy Hitter. However, we have searched both The Billboard and Cash Box and found the earliest ads for this game were dated May 1947 for each magazine. Bally announced this game in a Cash Box article dated May-19-1947, page 46. It's possible that the Bally documentation meant to show a Project Date of 02-02-1947 as this would fit the timing of their New Game Announcement.
- month
- 5
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Baseball
- year
- 1947