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 158 - Night Club Inspection
I spent a bit of time tonight looking at my new Night Club project. I began shopping the units in the head, and have finished a good portion.
This is what is needed to get the game going.
00:09:12 |
Sun 16 Aug 2015
Episode 157 - Gay Time is Running
I finished replacing the control unit motor on Gay Time, and the game roared to life!
I only had two items that needed tweaking, then the game started playing perfectly.
My first test game, when I wa…
00:10:32 |
Sat 15 Aug 2015
Episode 156 - Changing a Control Unit Motor
Bally actually made it very easy to swap units in and out of a bingo. Today I talk about how to remove a control unit motor from a Bally bingo.
I have a couple of photos of the removal up on the Fac…
00:09:02 |
Fri 14 Aug 2015
Episode 155 - Bally's Thoughtfulness
Bally thought long and hard about how the player would approach and play their bingo games, but they also thought about the poor guy who would have to maintain them!
Learn some of the secrets of work…
00:06:43 |
Thu 13 Aug 2015
Episode 154 - Discussion with Vic Camp 8-7-15
I finally made the trip up to NJ and met Vic in person.
Vic spent the whole day with me and shared his amazing collection and variety of gorgeous bingos.
We talk about the day, his truly fantastic co…
01:12:41 |
Wed 12 Aug 2015
Episode 153 - Jubilee is the Shizzy
Special guest host Fake Nick Baldridge joins us for a walkthrough of the 1973 Jubilee that he owns.
FNB does an excellent job describing the features and gameplay on his game.
Hopefully FNB comes b…
00:09:26 |
Tue 11 Aug 2015
Episode 152 - Interview with Charles Rowland 8-5-15
Charles Rowland is a local (to the Richmond, VA area) operator who has been in the industry since the 1960s.
Charles has fascinating stories about running bingos and EMs on location during their he…
01:00:43 |
Mon 10 Aug 2015
Episode 151 - Flip Flags
Flip Flags are a unique feature found on only 3 Bally machines, beginning with Wizard! in 1975.
The EM Dungeon did a treatise on this topic all the way back in episode 6 of the Spooky Pinball Podcast…
00:03:49 |
Sun 09 Aug 2015
Episode 150 - Multiball
Bally reintroduced the world to multiball through Balls-a-Poppin in 1956.
They continued to produce multiball machines throughout the remainder of the EM era.
00:05:57 |
Sat 08 Aug 2015
Episode 149 - The Chicane Lane
Bally's innovations continue with the Chicane Lane, a feature that slows the ball down and wiggles it back and forth to draw the player's attention. Amazingly simple in execution, two stacked plasti…
00:05:12 |
Fri 07 Aug 2015
Episode 148 - Mushroom Bumpers
Another Bally invention, the mushroom bumper is a really fancy target that feels very satisfying to hit.
How they work and common problems.
00:06:08 |
Thu 06 Aug 2015
Episode 147 - Zipper Flippers
Originally known as 'Flipper Zippers', this feature allows the flippers mounted on the playfield to 'zip' together, closing off the outhole.
The feature is pretty simple under the hood.
One of Bally'…
00:05:23 |
Wed 05 Aug 2015
Episode 146 - Changing a Flipper
How to take apart a flipper and change them.
The same basic rules apply to any EM pinball machine with flippers.
00:13:45 |
Tue 04 Aug 2015
Episode 145 - Flipper Construction
Flippers have undergone a bit of change since the beginning of the flipper era (1947).
Different designers had different techniques for using the flippers, and they certainly changed the face of pinb…
00:07:56 |
Mon 03 Aug 2015
Episode 144 - Transformers
What is a transformer? What purpose does that heavy thing do in your game?
These questions and more answered!
00:11:28 |
Sun 02 Aug 2015
Episode 143 - Happy Birthday, Mr. Neyens!
Wanye Neyens was a prolific designer through much of Gottlieb's woodrail and metal rail EM production.
His career spanned at least 179 machines (according to the IPDB, 177 machines made it to product…
00:06:30 |
Sat 01 Aug 2015
Episode 142 - Basics of Electrical Theory
Some of the basics about how to construct a circuit, how the circuit actually functions, and how to measure and calculate the values of Votage, Amperage (current), and Resistance.
00:14:18 |
Thu 30 Jul 2015
Episode 141 - Using a Multimeter with an EM Game
How to use a multimeter to troubleshoot various aspects of a game. A bit of a small electical/electronics crash course in how current flows, what to expect, how to change your settings appropriately…
00:15:05 |
Thu 30 Jul 2015
Episode 140 - Searching for a Winner (in all the wrong places)
The final set of switches on the control unit govern the search process. Everything from the release of the search disc to the lockout of footrail buttons happens here.
The control unit is complete …
00:05:35 |
Wed 29 Jul 2015
Episode 139 - The Control Unit - Payout Switches
In our next-to-last episode detailing the workings of a Bally bingo control unit, we examine the switches necessary for the operation of the payout.
When a winner has been determined, the machine has…
00:06:40 |
Tue 28 Jul 2015
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