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 358 - 1973 Sega Galaxy
Galaxy and other Sega games used several interesting mechanisms:
Slings that work via pressure from the ball hitting a large piece of plastic instead of ganged switches, and pop bumpers that are a si…
00:11:41 |
Thu 03 Mar 2016
Episode 357 - 1976 Bally Freedom
Freedom is a fun game from the bicentennial. Bally's take has some more interesting artwork and a fun ruleset.
This was one of the changeover games that was made in both EM and solid state versions.…
00:08:11 |
Wed 02 Mar 2016
Episode 356 - 1975 Gottlieb Spirit of '76
Spirit of '76 came in three flavors:
The four player was Spirit of '76.
The two player version was Pioneer
and the add-a-ball version was New York.
Spirit of '76 is all about increasing your bonus,…
00:10:55 |
Tue 01 Mar 2016
Episode 355 - Email Interview with Chris Dade 2-28-16
My interviewee tonight is Chris Dade, a man who has done quite a bit for the bingo hobby!
He has scanned, touched up, and reproduced many of the Bally bingo backglasses, as well as several of the bin…
00:15:52 |
Mon 29 Feb 2016
Episode 354 - Mystery Troubleshooting
My 1947 Mystery started blowing fuses - it was time to pull it out from the wall and troubleshoot. Here's the story of how I corrected the issues and what went wrong.
00:12:51 |
Sun 28 Feb 2016
Episode 353 - 1960 Williams Nags
Nags is a unique game from Williams with two interesting features -
It is one of a small handful of horse racing themed games that Williams made with a horse racing unit with six horses that can mov…
00:12:32 |
Sat 27 Feb 2016
Episode 352 - Hard Tilt vs. Soft Tilt
Bally bingos made after 1960 had multiple tilt states - a 'hard' state, from which the game could not be revived without additional money or credits, and a 'soft' state or 'sleeping' state that would…
00:08:24 |
Fri 26 Feb 2016
Episode 351 - The Auto-Mission Coin Divider
A unique mechanism in later Bally bingos, the auto-mission coin divider allowed operators to automatically set aside a portion of the game earnings in a special cashbox for the bar owner.
00:06:55 |
Thu 25 Feb 2016
Episode 350 - Multiple Plays for One Coin
What if the game you purchased accepted nickels from the factory, but you want to put it on route and collect quarters to match other games that you may have in various locations?
You have to add ext…
00:08:47 |
Wed 24 Feb 2016
Episode 349 - 1969 Chicago Coin Moon Shot
Moon Shot is a neat game with a unique set of ball return gates (shaped like metal flipper bats) on the left and right outlanes.
The layout looks like a skilled player can really rack up points easil…
00:08:32 |
Tue 23 Feb 2016
Episode 348 - 1962 Gottlieb Tropic Isle and 1963 Bally Moon Shot
In 1963, Bally was hunting around for a replacement for their bingo business in the U.S.
Things were looking rather bleak, until they hired Ted Zale, the designer that would add multiball, chicane la…
00:10:10 |
Mon 22 Feb 2016
Episode 347 - My EM Happenings for 2-17-16 pt. 2
Continuing last night's episode, some interesting tidbits learned while in Ohio, some games I've been working on recently, and various other things going on in my world.
Follow along on the Turf King…
00:15:50 |
Sun 21 Feb 2016
Episode 346 - My EM Happenings for 2-17-16 pt. 1
I spent a few days in Ohio recently, and wanted to discuss some of the games I played and various features that I was either incorrect about in my speculation, or thought would bear in-person impress…
00:16:06 |
Sat 20 Feb 2016
Episode 345 - 1980 Bally Continental
Continental is the very last Bally bingo pinball produced. In 1980, a Belgian firm ordered the entire run be shipped overseas. This firm ended up using the designs and creating their own line of bi…
00:13:38 |
Fri 19 Feb 2016
Episode 344 - 1980 Bally Malibu Beach
Malibu Beach was the last EM bingo that Bally produced, and the final Magic Screen game.
This game has exactly the same feature set as Laguna Beach (produced twenty years earlier!).
Rumor has it that…
00:16:30 |
Thu 18 Feb 2016
Episode 343 - 1979 Bally Tahiti
Tahiti is a love/hate game - the last of the 20 hole machines that Bally produced, Tahiti brings back the ball return feature from Galaxy. Instead of returning half of the card, it will return only …
00:12:28 |
Wed 17 Feb 2016
Episode 342 - 1978 Bally Galaxy
Galaxy is a one-off bingo with a 24 hole playfield.
You cannot bring the ball back to a ball return on this game. You can actually return one half of the numbers to shoot again. You can also move t…
00:14:34 |
Tue 16 Feb 2016
Episode 341 - Nantucket Nickel - The Miriam Cobblebottom Interview
ROMANCE!
Another holiday visit from Fake Nick Baldridge, this time with a very special guest. Miriam Cobblebottom, widow of the Nantucket Nickel company figurehead, Eustacious Cobblebottom, provide…
00:30:53 |
Mon 15 Feb 2016
Episode 340 - 1977 Bally Miss America Deluxe
Miss America Deluxe is the last of the Miss America games made by Bally.
It contains all the features (extra card, magic lines that move each row of numbers one position left and right, the red lette…
00:10:21 |
Sun 14 Feb 2016
Episode 339 - 1977 Bally High Flyer
High Flyer is another great six card bingo. This machine has an eight coin max. Your first six coins light the bingo cards, and coins 7 and 8 light the red diagonals (diagonal connections between o…
00:08:18 |
Sat 13 Feb 2016
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