For Amusement Only EM and Bingo Pinball Podcast
Detailing EM and Bingo pinball features, gameplay, and repair techniques.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 478
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Episode 298 - 1956 Bally Key West
Key West is the first bingo that Bally produced that allowed you to collect wins in triple deck scoring before you were locked out of the moving numbers feature (in this case, Magic Squares).
Colle…
00:10:13 |
Sun 03 Jan 2016
Episode 297 - 1956 Bally Big Show
Big Show is a magic squares game, notable for being the first game with triple deck scoring!
Corners score as 5-in-a-row in green, extra balls, magic squares in traditional position, and spotted numb…
00:08:12 |
Sat 02 Jan 2016
Episode 296 - 1956 Bally Double Header
Double Header is another unique game! Bally made two separate games in one - the first game is a static bingo card with multiple spotted numbers and select-a-spot. Red yellow and green lines can sc…
00:13:58 |
Fri 01 Jan 2016
Episode 295 - 1956 Bally Parade
Parade is another unique game in the Bally bingo pantheon: the Extra Lines feature allows you two extra rows of repeated numbers to try to put together a winner.
Advancing odds, up to quadruple repla…
00:14:20 |
Thu 31 Dec 2015
Episode 294 - 1955 Bally Broadway
Broadway was the first game Bally produced with Magic Squares! Magic Squares allow you to rotate each of the four corner quadrants via player control on the footrail.
Broadway has red and yellow l…
00:10:27 |
Wed 30 Dec 2015
Episode 293 - 1955 Bally Beach Beauty
Beach Beauty is another Bally one-off game - this game's unique feature is 'Wild Pockets'. Based on the machine qualifying green or red, you have to sink a ball into one of 7 holes to qualify the fe…
00:09:45 |
Tue 29 Dec 2015
Episode 292 - 1955 Bally Miami Beach
Miami Beach was another experiment by Bally. In this case, they tried a feature called "Magic Curtains". The bingo card is actually 9x5. By default, only a 5x5 card is shown, and as you insert coi…
00:11:50 |
Mon 28 Dec 2015
Episode 291 - 1955 Bally Gayety
Gayety is one of only two games with the Magic Pockets feature. This feature allows you to kick the balls physically from hole number 1 to number 7 and back again, stopping anywhere along the way.
T…
00:14:29 |
Sun 27 Dec 2015
Episode 290 - Nantucket Nickel's Second Effort
A special holiday episode with repeat guest host, Fake Nick Baldridge, who once again joins the For Amusement Only podcast to discuss esoteric pingame manufacturer, Nantucket Nickel, and their second…
00:09:20 |
Sat 26 Dec 2015
Episode 289 - 1954 Bally Big Time
Big Time is a Magic Lines moving numbers game that allows you to move each column of numbers up or down one position!
The catch is that you earn that feature at mystery intervals. Between advancing …
00:07:51 |
Fri 25 Dec 2015
Episode 288 - 1954 Bally Variety
Variety is a single card bingo - the first with moving numbers! In this case, Magic Lines. Magic Lines allow you to move the first three columns of numbers (on this game) up or down one position.
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00:10:52 |
Thu 24 Dec 2015
Episode 287 - 1954 Bally Hi-Fi
Hi-Fi is a single card bingo with super cards, select-a-spot, advancing odds, extra balls, and the 'Bump' feature (only used on this machine).
The artwork is music-themed and gorgeous.
Backglass:
Ca…
00:10:23 |
Wed 23 Dec 2015
Episode 286 - 1954 Bally Surf Club
Surf Club is yet another fantastic Bally bingo with a complete integrated art package, select-a-spot, super cards (qualified via rollovers), extra balls, a Super Line (3 in a row score as 5!), advanc…
00:12:44 |
Tue 22 Dec 2015
Episode 285 - 1953 Bally Ice Frolics
Ice Frolics has the super score system of Frolics (one card scores based on advancing odds, the rest are fixed payout), but adds the Hold feature used on Palm Springs.
Corners, Extra Balls, three car…
00:14:30 |
Mon 21 Dec 2015
Episode 284 - 1953 Bally Palm Springs
Palm Springs is one of only a small number of Bally bingos with the 'hold' feature. This allowed you to hold only the odd numbers, only the even numbers, or hold all. The rest of the balls would dr…
00:15:04 |
Sun 20 Dec 2015
Episode 283 - 1953 Bally Dude Ranch
Dude Ranch is a highly-regarded bingo.
A two card bingo with a super card, super lines, select-a-spot, extra balls and corners scoring! Advancing odds, and rollover spotted numbers round out the pac…
00:13:00 |
Sat 19 Dec 2015
Episode 282 - 1953 Bally Beach Club
Beach Club has a single main card and two 'super cards' - 3x3 sets of numbers that score 3 in a rows as 4!
The game also features corners scoring on both the main card and the super cards, up to seve…
00:13:28 |
Fri 18 Dec 2015
Episode 281 - 1952 Bally Beauty
Bally's Beauty is a really fantastic looking three card bingo with advancing odds, extra balls, spotted numbers and ... the first game to feature select-a-spot!
By turning a knob on the front door, y…
00:10:30 |
Thu 17 Dec 2015
Episode 280 - 1952 Bally Bright Spot
Bright Spot is a six card bingo, made as a follow-on to Frolics, which had come out earlier in 1952.
Whereas Frolics introduced some new features and ideas to six card players, Bright Spot brings pla…
00:13:54 |
Wed 16 Dec 2015
Episode 279 - My EM Happenings For the Week of 12-12-15
Here's some stuff that's been going on in my pinball world recently (really more than a month, been holding onto this stuff for almost a month!)
If you haven't listened to 'This Flippin' Podcast' y…
00:14:46 |
Tue 15 Dec 2015
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