- gameplay_feature
- Trap Holes ×25
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 6275
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6275/image-17.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.model_number
- 1258
- ipdb.notable_features
- Trap holes (25). Six cards. Plastic playfield.
- ipdb.notes
- 'Mississippi Showboat' appears to be the last bingo game from this manufacturer. The example pictured here is the only one we have seen. The right side of the backbox has a stamped serial number EX3 with a date 10-1-1981. The game was discovered at a distributor in Charleston, South Carolina in 2014. A long-time employee who was there since the 1970s explained that they received the game from Bally to test it out. When Bally decided to not take it into production, they told the distributor to just keep it. The game was then just set aside, unused. The owner of the distributorship passed away in 2013 and the game was found and rescued only days before it was about to be dismantled for scrap. As of 2015 this game resides in a museum in Holland.
We don't know how many of these test games were made. The cabinet serial number EX3 suggests that this was a third one. The letters EX may stand for 'Experimental' or possibly 'Export' as by this time Bally was exporting their bingo production.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- American History
- theme
- Boats