Bally : Twist
| Game Parameters | |
| Game Type | magic cards |
| Game Number | 687 |
| Manufacture Date | 1962 |
| Number of Holes | 25 |
| Number of Odds Steps | 10 |
| Max Payout | 600 |
| Max Extra Balls | 3 |
| Features | |
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Twist
Here was a novel attempt to try and get around the definition of a gambling device. The game actually told you what would happen on the next coin/credit played.The options were:
- advance yellow scores
- advance red scores
- advance green scores
- advance magic cards.
Ok, so the game told you what, but not how much, so there was still that element of chance that bingo players like.
The Twist is unique in another respect - it is the only Magic Card game.
You can move the card around until the 4th or 5th ball is shot. Which is determined by a light on the backglass which illuminates as soon as the first ball is shot.
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Using a concept similar to overlapping/shifting cards, the Twist used a unique mechanism.The standard in-line scoring pattern was displayed on the backglass, but the card behind it is actually 5x16 big. You are only seeing a 5x5 view of it. You score in whatever 5x5 view you push the R-button in.
The same number may appear more than once on a card. The marketing people dubbed this double duty numbers.
It is actually a magic screen mechanism that has the
numbers attached to the screen panels. The purple
highlight in the pic is the viewable area.
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