Bally : Ballerina
| Game Parameters | |
| Game Type | magic screen |
| Game Number | 628 |
| Manufacture Date | 1959 |
| Number of Holes | 25 |
| Number of Odds Steps | 8 |
| Max Payout | 600 |
| Max Extra Balls | 3 |
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Ballerina
Ballerina did two things that appeared on no other bingo machine:- top row feature
- pushing a button would reverse the top line
of holes (1-7) on the playfield. For example,
a ball in hole #1 would light #7. An interesting
idea which I'll eventually check out when I rebuild the
Ballerina I have.
- roll-over buttons advance screen
- For many of the previous games, the roll-over buttons extended the time you had to rearrange the numbers into different scoring combinations. On Ballerina, they stepped-up the screen position unit, so you could move the screen more positions after the first ball was shot. Bally got cheap, though, you had to hit either roloover button twice to get another screen position. I have enough trouble hitting the buttons once!
I suspect it was the use of the rollover buttons that made this game less popular, rather than the top row feature.
magic screen games
First introduced in Carnival Queen, the numbers on the card are stationary, but a moving metal screen is slid across them.The screen has in-line scoring and irregularly shaped colored section scoring. In the sections, rather than needing 3,4,or 5-in-line, you can get 3,4, or 5-in-section to score. While some sections have numbers that are in a line, to win in a section, the lit numbers DO NOT need to be adjacent!
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| Screen Home Position | Screen Position B | Screen Position E | Screen Position G |
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In the screen home position, the standard three color in-line scoring is available. As the screen is slid left, the in-line scoring is replaced with section scoring. At position B, the scoring is a combination of both methods. By position E, in-line scoring is gone completely.
Also notice how in position B, the green diagonal
is now over three numbers that could not be a diagonal
winner on the screen in the home position, but only
three numbers are in the diagonal line!
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