Back Moon Shot

Sources

OPDB and IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.

Conflicts resolved (1 field)

gameplay_feature
IPDB Standup Targets ×4 used IPDB Slingshots ×2 used IPDB Pop Bumpers ×4 used IPDB Flippers ×2 used

Sources agree (11 fields)

display_type
score-reels OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
technology_generation
electromechanical OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
player_count
1 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
month
2 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
year
1963 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
opdb_id
GRp0d-MDE1v OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
name
Moon Shot OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
theme
Outer Space IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
credit
Ted Zale — Design IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
production_quantity
1250 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
ipdb_id
1627 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog

Single source (11 fields)

opdb.images
OPDB [{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/429b4299-75a6-491a-9203-ee19403dd49b-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/429b4299-75a6-491a-9203-ee19403dd49b-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/429b4299-75a6-491a-9203-ee19403dd49b-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":436,"height":439},"small":{"width":248,"height":250},"medium":{"width":436,"height":439}},"title":"Backglass","primary":false},{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/b52e4548-b54b-42d6-94ce-1572e5b09f23-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/b52e4548-b54b-42d6-94ce-1572e5b09f23-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/b52e4548-b54b-42d6-94ce-1572e5b09f23-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":844,"height":864},"small":{"width":244,"height":250},"medium":{"width":625,"height":640}},"title":null,"primary":true}] used
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/1627/Backglass.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/1627f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-26.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-27.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-28.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-29.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-30.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-31.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-32.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-33.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-34.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-35.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-36.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-37.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-38.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-39.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-40.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-41.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1627/image-42.jpg"] used
ipdb.model_number
IPDB 695 used
ipdb.notes
IPDB Bally produced bingo machines during the 1950s and into 1962 until the implementation in December 1962 of the Eastland Bill (S-1658, for James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee) outlawed the interstate transportation of gambling devices. One of the visible proponents for the Senate Bill was Rufus King, attorney for D. Gottlieb and Company. Gottlieb had requested and received a legal opinion specifically exempting Gottlieb products from the terms of the new law (per Billboard, December 29, 1962, pages 27 and 32), saying, "no Gottlieb games, free-game, multiple player or Flipper (add-a-ball) type are covered by the new provisions, and that accordingly neither your company nor anyone else at any level in the industry will have to register or otherwise comply on account of handling Gottlieb products." With bingo production shut down by this law, Bally turned to making flipper pinball machines full time after not having made one since 1957, starting with 'Moon Shot', a blatant copy of Gottlieb's 1962 'Tropic Isle'. On the backglass, the rocket is shown launching not from Cape Canaveral but seemingly from an area of tropic isles off the coast of Ecuador. Christian Marche is listed in other pinball resources as the artist for this game. In an interview appearing in The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981, he states he moved to the USA in 1964 where he started work at Advertising Posters. Therefore, we have removed his name as the artist for this 1963 game. used
ipdb.notable_features
IPDB Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (4), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (4), 3-sided rollunder. Backglass light animation (rocket flies to the moon). Outhole bonus scores 20 points or 200 when lit. Maximum displayed point score is 1,999 points. used
ipdb_rating
IPDB 4.8 used
corporate_entity
Flipcommons Catalog bally-manufacturing-corporation used
title
Flipcommons Catalog moon-shot used
slug
Flipcommons Catalog moon-shot used