- gameplay_feature
- Standup Targets ×2
- gameplay_feature
- 5-Bank Drop Targets
- gameplay_feature
- Solitary Drop Targets ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Slingshots
- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×4
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
- ipdb_id
- 4561
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/4561/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4561/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4561/image-4.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (4), Slingshot (1), Standup targets (2), Solitary drop targets (2), 5-bank drop targets (1), 2-way kick-out hole (1), Upper right free ball gate. Bounce-back outlanes allow the player to nudge a draining ball back into play. Has Your Number match feature. Each solitary drop target has a mini-post screw behind it, most likely there to protect the target backside from ball damage but they also serve to deflect balls shot from the flippers when these targets are down.
Three pop bumpers are on a revolving turntable. The turntable starts its rotation when the ball passes through a top rollover and stops rotation when the ball leaves the turntable (probably determined by switch closures in other areas of the playfield). Sometimes the turntable automatically changes its direction of rotation.
The rebound rubbers adjacent to the flippers are not slingshots. This game has only one slingshot kicker strategically placed in the middle right side of the playfield. Three lit (or always flashing?) yellow arrow inserts direct the player to shoot the ball from the left flipper to this slingshot to be kicked across the playfield to the 2-way kick-out hole in a left lane above the drop target bank. This starts the bonus kick-out feature to award 5000 to 20000 bonus points and opens the Free Ball Gate, the only time this gate opens. Normally, the ball is kicked upward from this hole to the top of the playfield but in the bonus mode the ball is kicked across the playfield towards the top entrance of the long right-side lane where the Free Ball Gate delivers it back to the shooter lane. Before the ball is kicked-out, however, the turntable is activated just long enough to move the pop bumpers out of the ball's anticipated path across the playfield.
See also the annotated flyer close-up image that accompanies this description.
- ipdb.notes
- Release date 7-1977.
An earlier game with a rotating turntable of pop bumpers is Williams' 1960 'Nags'.
- month
- 7
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- solid-state
- theme
- Recreation
- theme
- Happiness
- theme
- Affluence
- year
- 1977