- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 2180
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/2180/2180f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2180/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2180/image-2.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.model_number
- 656
- ipdb.notable_features
- Nickel or dime play (operator option). A disc is used instead of a ball. Each play can award between 2 and 20 replays. Mechanical backbox animation (horses race). Advertised as having a floor footprint of 27 by 22 inches.
- ipdb.notes
- This listing is the replay (free play) model. The non-replay model is Bally's 1960 'Skill Derby (Non-replay Model)' and does not have a replay counter in the upper left corner of the playfield nor has the illuminating odds column along the right side of the playfield. Available Bally documentation does not indicate separate model numbers for these two models.
According to the new game announcements in The Billboard (Oct-24-1960, page 78) and The Cash Box (Oct-29-1960, page 55) this game was first shipped in October 1960. In these articles, Bally referred to the transparent cover over the animated horses as a "Vista-Dome". Although Bally also referred to this game as "an upright pin-game", a disc is used instead of a ball and therefore we classify it as Not A Pinball.
This game is not to be confused with another Bally upright game from 1960 called Bally Derby and which also had a horserace theme but is a gun game for up to 5 players, with a pop-up array found in games like Genco's 1958 'Flying Aces'.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Sports
- theme
- Horse Racing