Bally : Yacht Club

Game Parameters
Game Type overlapping cards
Game Number 549
Manufacture Date 1953
Number of Holes 25
Number of Odds Steps 8
Max Payout 300
Max Extra Balls 3
Features
Resources
Backglass
 - chris dade image
 - bg 1
 - bg 2

Cabinet
 - cab 1
 - cab 2
 - cab 3
 - cab 4
 - cab 5
 - cab 6
 - cab 7

Flyers
 - fly 1

Internals
 - back door bottom
 - back door top
 - cu index units
 - cu shaft
 - cu washer
 - drag arm scramble
 - fuses
 - inside coin door
 - inside head
 - lamp panel
 - lamp socket strips
 - playfield bottom
 - plugs
 - reflex wiring
 - score extra step
 - search wipers
 - ses slip rings
 - shutter and lifter start relay
 - sounder solenoids
 - transformer wiring

Game Manual
 - manual (pdf) : 19.71MB
 - unoptimized manual (pdf) : 94.16MB

Miscellaneous
 - fuse label scan
 - misc

Mixer Diagrams
 - 1: mixer 1
 - 1: mixer 1 (svg file)
 - 2: mixer 2
 - 2: mixer 2 (svg file)
 - 3: mixer 3
 - 3: mixer 3 (svg file)
 - 4: mixer 4
 - 4: mixer 4 (svg file)

Press Image
 - mp 1

Playfield
 - chris dade image
 - pf 1
 - pf 2

Reflex Diagrams
 - serial C4404 (svg file)
 - serial C4404
 - main
 - main (svg file)

Schematic
 - schematic : 3.09MB

S/I Card Scan
 - siscan 1
 - siscan 2

Timing Diagrams
 - timer replay
 - timer replay (svg file)

Unit Diagrams
 - extra ball unit
 - extra ball unit (svg file)
 - replay counter unit
 - replay counter unit (svg file)
 - score unit
 - score unit (svg file)
 - search disk
 - search disk (svg file)
 - selection feature unit
 - selection feature unit (svg file)
 - spotting disk
 - spotting disk (svg file)
 - super line unit
 - super line unit (svg file)
 - timer unit
 - timer unit (svg file)


Yacht Club

Here's a unique game in Bally's bingo lineup, and a picture it going to help a lot, so here it is...

The game has a feature only used this one time - shifting/overlapping cards. The actual card is 5x9, but only one of the possible 5x5 squares you could make from it will score. I believe the picture shows the 5x5 square that is active if you don't have the shifting feature enabled. If you succeed in lighting "3 cards", your would be able to move the two red lines one column to the left or right, thus choosing one of three possible 5x5 cards. "4 cards" and "5 cards" could be lit to allow shifting the lines further right.

An additional feature was the superline, which is more clear on the full flyer. The two horizontal rows of numbers with darkened circles one the second row up/down will score with only 2-in-line when the feature is enabled.

The roll-overs spot two numbers each (red: 23,24 and yellow: 15,16), and both the roll-overs can be lit at the same time. Jeffrey Lawton points out that hitting both rollvers when lit will create an instant 4-in-line winner.

overlapping cards games

A 5x9 array of numbers in the backglass with two vertical bars that the player could move to pick the 5x5 card that they wanted to use within the bigger grid.


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