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 318 - 1962 Bally Shoot-A-Line
Shoot-A-Line is a one-off Bally bingo that has a unique playfield layout: 28 holes!
Each row contains 7 holes, which would make this very challenging. Especially because each bingo card only contain…
00:16:05 |
Sat 23 Jan 2016
Episode 317 - 1961 Bally Lido
Lido is one of the two Futurity games (Bikini is the other). Often praised for their use as home games, these games will allow you to save up your OK game and play it at a later time.
In this way, r…
00:15:08 |
Fri 22 Jan 2016
Episode 316 - 1961 and 62 Barrel-O-Fun and Fun Spot
Barrel-O-Fun '61 and '62 and Fun Spot '61 and '62 are "Ohio Dime Games" as Jeffrey Lawton calls them in his book "Bally Bingo Pinball Machines".
I've wrapped four games into one episode since Barrel-…
00:10:10 |
Thu 21 Jan 2016
Episode 315 - 1961 Bally Can Can
Can Can is a beautiful magic screen bingo with a great feature set.
This game has extended time, rollovers, extra balls, a blue section that scores 300 or 600, an orange section that scores as green …
00:15:37 |
Wed 20 Jan 2016
Episode 314 - 1961 Bally Lite-A-Line
Lite-A-Line is a fantastic, difficult six card bingo.
This machine has the possibility of a random, spotted center number, and yellow lines, which score differently than the rest of each card.
Back…
00:14:11 |
Tue 19 Jan 2016
Episode 313 - 1960 Bally Touchdown
Touchdown is the first Magic Numbers bingo that Bally produced. Instead of a 2x2 square of numbers that rotates, you have a 3x2 rectangle that rotates!
Pic-a-play returns with triple-deck scoring, a…
00:11:44 |
Mon 18 Jan 2016
Episode 312 - 1960 Bally Fun-Spot
Fun-Spot is another of the "Ohio Dime Games" as Jeffrey Lawton, author of Bally Bingo Pinball Machines, calls them.
Instead of earning replays on these machines, you earn a lighted score advance for …
00:09:39 |
Sun 17 Jan 2016
Episode 311 - 1960 Bally Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach is next in our chronological tour of Bally's bingos! It is a Magic Screen game with the OK feature, super sections, an extended time tree, blue section scores as green 5, and orange sec…
00:20:06 |
Sat 16 Jan 2016
Episode 310 - Turf King Learning Pt 2 with Ava Baldridge 1-14-16
Ava and I spent the evening together - I taught her some of the basic schematic symbols, along with some very basic troubleshooting, like checking continuity. We recap the info from tonight.
Her imp…
00:09:41 |
Fri 15 Jan 2016
Episode 309 -1959 Bally Fun Way
Fun Way is the first of a few games that Jeffrey Lawton calls the "Ohio Dime Games". Please see the book Bally Bingo Pinball Machines for more information.
Fun Way is a six card bingo - instead of e…
00:07:47 |
Thu 14 Jan 2016
Episode 308 - 1959 Bally Sea Island
Sea Island was Bally's second Magic Screen game - they added another section of the screen, and according to Phil's site, bingo.cdyn.com, they made it easier to achieve the feature.
A full extended t…
00:08:22 |
Wed 13 Jan 2016
Episode 307 - 1958 Bally Carnival Queen
Carnival Queen ushers in the era of the Magic Screen! Magic Screen games are the most popular among many bingo players.
Instead of a flat bingo card, there is instead a movable grid that makes up ea…
00:17:52 |
Tue 12 Jan 2016
Episode 306 - 1957 Bally Beach Time
Beach Time expands on the concepts used in Sun Valley and Cypress Gardens!
Every number on the bingo card can be moved to another postion, the ballyhole awards you all the moving numbers features on …
00:22:00 |
Mon 11 Jan 2016
Episode 305 - 1957 Bally Cypress Gardens
Cypress Gardens is a very highly regarded Magic Squares bingo.
Centrally located Magic Squares with a single Magic Line at the bottom, triple deck scoring, extra balls, a carry-over Ballyhole feature…
00:17:08 |
Sun 10 Jan 2016
Episode 304 - Turf King Learning with Ava Baldridge 1-6-15
Ava has been learning how to fix EM machines. She has been a very good student and has learned how to clean steppers, test bulbs, solder, and more!
Hear Ava's thoughts about the work and Turf King…
00:20:11 |
Sat 09 Jan 2016
Episode 303 - Turf King Reaction with Clifton "Tub" Baldridge - 1-1-16
My grandfather has been a 'picker' for most of his life, trading various items for others - mostly antiques, though he has dabbled occasionally with coin-op.
He was very interested to see the new gam…
00:05:39 |
Fri 08 Jan 2016
Episode 302 - Interview with Brent Griffith 12-31-15
Brent is one of the co-hosts for the Broken Token Arcade and Pinball Podcast.
If you have not listened to Broken Token, pause your player and check it out at http://www.brokentoken.com Two collector…
00:50:36 |
Thu 07 Jan 2016
Episode 301 - Interview with Steve Ridge 12-31-15
Steve is a fellow collector who happened to come across a Turf King! Steve recorded an interview with me after loading the game, which was thankfully less difficult than previous moves.
We discuss h…
00:24:57 |
Wed 06 Jan 2016
Episode 300 - 35mm Film Projection at the Byrd Theatre
In the world of the EM, one of the biggest and most interesting devices is the 35mm film projector. In this episode, I teach you how to run your own carbon arc projector, cut cues, run a Brenograph …
00:38:08 |
Tue 05 Jan 2016
Episode 299 - 1957 Bally Showtime
Showtime is the first game to feature Magic Squares rearranged into the center of the backglass. This game also features the first Magic Line - in this case, a set of four moving numbers that rotate…
00:06:53 |
Mon 04 Jan 2016
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