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Flipperkasten: Silverball Mania

17 maart 2010

Mijn derde Solid State machine. Ik val inderdaad van m'n geloof!!!

Solid State (SS), using electronic components -- chips, transistors, etc. -- and later using central/master processors and custom IC devices to make decisions, change scoring amounts and change how the game plays. These games are from about 1977 onward. These are easiest to recognize by the scoring mechanism; if the machine uses a digital screen or 7-segment digital displays (where each number is made from several segments lit up), then it is probably a solid-state machine

de Silverball Mania

Uit de IPDB:

Silverball Mania / IPD No. 2156 / June 29, 1978 / 4 Players
Manufacturer:                         Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally]

Project Date:                         June 29, 1978

Date Of Manufacture:           February, 1980

Model Number:                         1157-E

Common Abbreviations:        SBM, SB

MPU:                                         Bally MPU AS-2518-35

Type:                                         Solid State Electronic (SS)

Production:                                 10,350 units   (confirmed)

Theme:                                         Sports - Pinball - Fantasy

Notable Features:                         Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Horseshoe lane (1). Going through the horseshoe lane or top center rollover when lit changes a center outlane located below the flippers into a kicker that propels an otherwise drained ball upward through the flippers back onto the playfield. Balls that exit via the left or right outlanes can be nudged by the player onto unique wireforms that will route the ball to this center outlane/kicker.

Design by:                         Jim Patla

Art by:                         Kevin O'Connor

Notes:                         One of the playfield plastics shows artist Kevin O'Connor's Jeep Cherokee drawn in chrome. According to Kevin at the 2004 Texas Pinball Festival, some of the reflections in the silver balls on the sides are of Kevin himself, who wore a beard for many years.

The game came to O'Connor as a blank whitewood and he designed the art from an idea he got from a comic by a comic who drew everything in chrome, tieing in well with the pinball.

Het verhaal komt later en ik heb ook nog geen foto's van mijn eigen kast.

Dus maar weer even een paar uit de IPDB: