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 218 - Bingo Row York Show 2015 pt. 3
York show quick recap Day 3.
00:19:59 |
Thu 15 Oct 2015
Episode 217 - Bingo Row York Show 2015 pt. 2
York show quick recap, Day 2.
00:17:54 |
Wed 14 Oct 2015
Episode 216 - Bingo Row York Show 2015 pt. 1
York show quick recap, Day 1 of 3.
00:19:26 |
Mon 12 Oct 2015
Episode 215 - Tandem Interview - Steve Smith and Hugh Kown
Hugh Kown is a master restoration expert on bingos, and a master repair technician.
He is also known as the 'Old Binger' and ran an incredibly popular bingo pinball forum several years ago. His site…
01:01:11 |
Mon 12 Oct 2015
Episode 214 - 1935 Pamco Baby Lite-A-Line
Pamco's Baby Lite-A-Line is actually a completely different game to the full size Lite-A-Line released the year before.
This game actually looks like a lot more fun than the full size.
Single card wi…
00:06:00 |
Sun 11 Oct 2015
Episode 213 - 1935 Pamco Roto Lite
Pamco experimented with the bingo format one other time in the 1930s - Roto Lite is a bingo-esque game that came out in 1935.
Your goal is to land in the upper hole via skill shot and spin discs or l…
00:08:46 |
Sat 10 Oct 2015
Episode 212 - Spring Importance and Diagnosis
Springs are incredibly important for successful operation of your game.
I attempt to discuss how to diagnose a spring problem and how to address - both correctly and incorrectly.
00:09:27 |
Fri 09 Oct 2015
Episode 211 - 1937 Bally Line-Up
Line-Up was Bally's first attempt at a bingo-style pinball machine.
25 holes arranged in a grid on the playfield in the same arrangement as the card on the backglass (1-5, 6-10, etc).
Due to the ex…
00:05:41 |
Thu 08 Oct 2015
Episode 210 - 1934 Pamco Lite-A-Line
In 1934, Pacific Amusement Company made a three card bingo, almost 17 years before Bally's first bingo machine.
Each card is bought with its own coin slide.
Cool deco stylings, with especially neat w…
00:07:23 |
Wed 07 Oct 2015
Episode 209 - Pull On Wires
Quick tech tip for tonight - pull on wires in order to expose problems in wiring or solder joints.
This will save you hours of frustration.
Don't go crazy - just a gentle, yet firm tug on each wire i…
00:07:53 |
Tue 06 Oct 2015
Episode 208 - 1963 Bally 3-in-line
In 1963, Ted Zale designed a fascinating game called '3-in-line', based off of the bingo gameplay, but in a flipper package.
Ther eis a 9-digit bingo card in the playfield and backglass that lights a…
00:08:39 |
Mon 05 Oct 2015
Episode 207 - Williams Yukon
Continuing to browse Danny's site at danny.cdyn.com, I found another oddity:
Williams Yukon.
This game allows for winning up to 100 replays based on the cards that you hit on a bingo-style playfield.…
00:09:08 |
Sun 04 Oct 2015
Episode 206 - Sirmo Magic Screen Boardset
A divergence into solid state. While browsing Danny's site at danny.cdyn.com, I noticed he had some photos of the internals of the Magic Screen bingo manufactured by Sirmo in Belgium in 2005.
This…
00:14:58 |
Sat 03 Oct 2015
Episode 205 - 1954 Gottlieb Hawaiian Beauty
A listener writes in with a writeup on their grail machine: 1954's Hawaiian Beauty by Gottlieb.
This machine has a very unique layout that looks like it is very challenging and a lot of fun.
Wide fli…
00:13:02 |
Fri 02 Oct 2015
Episode 204 - Williams Same Player Shoots Again Schematic
Listener Tim writes in with a note on how the Williams multiplayer games have a superior method for letting the player know they have another ball.
The Same Player Shoots Again lamp does not go off u…
00:12:45 |
Thu 01 Oct 2015
Episode 203 - 1932 Ballyhoo Cleaning Questions
A listener writes in with a question about cleaning their 1932 Ballyhoo pinball playfield.
The short answer of how to do this is 'carefully'. Ensure that you are not accidentally removing the artwor…
00:16:51 |
Wed 30 Sep 2015
Episode 202 - Bingo Serial Numbers
Bingo serial numbers are shrouded in mystery.
Rod McLarge, aka CreditDotPinball asks how one may find the serials, their location, and any interesting information about them.
I do my best to answer t…
00:10:39 |
Tue 29 Sep 2015
Episode 201 - Night Club Replay Scoring Troubleshooting
Did a lot of pinball-related stuff this weekend, in preparation for York.
Has new siderails put on the Night Club and have been playing it like crazy.
Unfortunately, the replays would never score - …
00:14:49 |
Mon 28 Sep 2015
Episode 200 - Interview with Jeffrey Lawton 9-23-15
Jeffrey Lawton is the premier bingo technician - we initially chatted on air on episode 54 with Steve Smith.
Jeffrey wrote the books Bally Bingo Pinball Machines and The Bingo Pinball War, both excel…
01:02:44 |
Sat 26 Sep 2015
Episode 199 - 1945 United Trade Winds
United made this conversion game during World War II for the game Sky Blazer.
A sequence game - you try to unlight all 12 bumpers on the playfield, which will light super special at the bottom kickou…
00:08:19 |
Fri 25 Sep 2015
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