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Bally · 1963
Hootenanny
Notable Features
Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Mushroom bumper (1), Slingshots (3), Rollover buttons (4), Standup targets (3). Right-side free ball return lane with detour gates. Lighting all letters of HOOTENANNY in backglass awards replays (operator-adjustable) and will carry-over from game to game. The upper left slingshot is unusual in that it has no switches behind its rubber ring to require the ball to push against the ring to close the switches to activate its kicker. Instead, the kicker is activated by a rollover button in front of it. A ball rolling across this button, for instance having just scored the 10-point rollover lane above it, would be kicked back towards the pop bumpers. The playfield is painted with three red arrows emanating from this rollover button to illustrate this to the player. Maximum displayed point score is 1,999 points. Replay wheel maximum: 25 Sound: bell, knocker
Historical Notes
First Bally game to have a mushroom bumper. Two earlier games with mushroom bumpers are Stoner's 1939 'Ali-Baba' and Stoner's 1940 'Fantasy'. The flyer points out Bally's 50-cycle motor used for export games, while domestic games require 60-cycles. A game had to be equipped with a motor for one or the other, depending on the game's destination, along with a transformer for the voltage used by the country of destination. An article in The Billboard, Dec-7-1963 page 42, announced that, starting with Hootenanny, Bally pin games would have as standard equipment their new motor which would operate on either 50 and 60 cycles, with a universal transformer which may be used with either 115 or 220-240 volts current supply. This solution no longer required different motors for domestic and export Bally pinball machines.
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