Bally : Mystic Gate
Game Parameters | |
Game Type | mystic lines |
Game Number | 1017 |
Manufacture Date | 1975 |
Number of Holes | 20 |
Number of Odds Steps | 10 |
Max Payout | 1200 |
Max Extra Balls | 0 |
Features |
- bg 1
Cabinet
- cab 1
- cab 2
Flyers
- fly 1
Internals
- back door
- back door lo res
- ball trough
- blue counter unit
- coin unit wipers
- fuses
- gate rebound
- inside head
- mystic lines unit
- playfield bottom
- program disc
- reflex factor disc
- reflex unit
- replay register
- shutter cams
- shutter motor
- shutter unit
- timer unit
- 4 relay bank
- 7 relay bank
- 7 relay bank right
Game Manual
- manual (pdf) : 10.73MB
- unoptimized manual (pdf) : 80.80MB
Miscellaneous
- sk-444b - sound kit schematic
- w-1128-4b - sound kit diode board
Mixer Diagrams
- reflex factor: mixer reflex factor
- reflex factor: mixer reflex factor (svg file)
Press Image
- mp 1
Playfield
- pf 1
Service Bulletin
- b1017-ball gate
Schematic
- schematic : 13.75MB
S/I Card Scan
- siscan
Mystic Gate
Bally gives you a feature which lets you raise the rebound rubber and allows the ball to pass underneath it and eject sideways over the second row of numbers. The idea being that you could bypass the top row of numbers (1-6) completely, and you probably have a better chance at potting hole #7 repeatably.Otherwise, it's a pretty stripped-down mystic line machine with many of the previous model's features removed
mystic lines games
First appearing on Border Beauty, this new game type took the section scoring idea from the magic screen games and got rid of the in-line scoring that had been on every bingo up until now.While they were at it, they removed five holes from the playfield, and decided four colors (red/yellow/green/blue) were better than three.
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Mystic Line Home Position | Mystic Line Winner |
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The nasty trick was that one number in each color group was white with a corresponding colored star. That number counted as the fifth number in the color only, otherwise it only counted as a lit star. (e.g. the four blue lit plus the blue star would pay 5-in-blue. Two blue lit plus the blue star is worth nothing).
So you really have five balls and you have to get at least three out of four in the color to win.
Unlike the magic screen games, the color sections were stationary and you moved the numbers behind the metal panel that had the color pattern painted on it.
The main card is 4x5 (four rows, five columns). The center column was a Magic Line - it could be moved up or down one position. The two columns on the left could be swapped with themselves, and so could the two columns on the right.
Keeping in mind the popularity of the OK game feature, they added this as a standard item on almost all mystic line games, and called it the Red Letter Feature. 3 or 2 balls in the star numbers would award the red letter game.
In addition, all mystic line games had a 3 or 4 star numbers
score some fixed number of credits.
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