- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- ipdb_id
- 4856
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/4856/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4856/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4856/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4856/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4856/image-5.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Bally
- ipdb.notable_features
- 5 balls for 10 cents for one bingo card. Additional cards are 10 cents each before first ball is played. Maximum six card game.
- ipdb.notes
- Bally made a series of bingo games from 1959 to 1962 that, unlike other bingo games, had no "free play" and no extra balls, and were intended to be shipped to states that had restrictive laws against gambling devices.
Bingo backglasses carrying the name of 'Spot-Em' were used to replace the Bally backglasses in these games.
According to author Jeffrey Lawton ( Bally Bingo Pinball Machines), these 'Spot-Em' glasses were made after-factory and are not original Bally glasses with just the name altered. He states these glasses were available nationwide and the reason for changing the name is not certain.
Three different examples of the backglass are listed here, referencing the Bally game for which they were created, if known, and are numbered for image correlation:
1) A version for Bally's 1959 'Fun Way' mounted in the game.
2) A version for either Bally's 1961 'Barrel O� Fun �61' or Bally's 1961 'Barrel O� Fun �62' mounted in the game.
3) A version for either Bally's 1960 'Fun-Spot' or Bally's 1960 'Barrel O� Fun' and we have only a picture of its reverse side in this listing.
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- year
- 1960