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Re: Most Iconic Bally’s
« on: December 14, 2011, 09:46:58 AM »

Solid State with Electronic sounds;
Kiss
Paragon
Playboy
Star Trek
Six Million Dollar Man, etc……


Middle group quite easily. Bally's biggest production run and earners are right there in this group. I prefer collecting the "speech" group as they are harder to find in Australia, and they are definitely worth playing.

Was 6 Million $ man a real good earner Nino-As good as Kiss? or close.

Peter

Just from memory - KISS, Star Trek, Eight Ball and Playboy were the top earners. Paragon, Strikes and Spares, Lost World and Space Invaders were the next tier down. Six Million Dollar Man and Power Play were around the same, if not less than Spacies. Dolly Parton, Rolling Stones and Future Spa were bombs.

I remember two KISS machines on location that were next to each other, flanked by a Strikes and Spares and Dolly Parton. There was a crowd around the KISS games, with 20 cent pieces across the glass for the next player(s). The Dolly and Strikes and Spares were used as "coat hangers" - players left their jackets etc on top of the games while Playing the KISS'.

The Day that a Paragon was placed on location was very much the same. But it was a brutal game for players due to the pop bumper located near the bottom left. Players had never seen this before. When the Paragon was removed from it's route days (1993), I noticed that a rubber was stretched across the left outlane so that you never lost the ball on the LHS.
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