Has anyone heard of a Bally slot titled Bingo continental

[mgpest]

Has anyone heard of a Bally slot titled Bingo continental  929 - 1  BC2 - 268

[Ozzy]

Found this one             


cheers


Ozzy

[jay]

I saw one of those in Switzerland.

They have a lot of odd games though. Most you pop in a coin lights blink and land on various LED squares and then you either win money or more likely not.
Some are kind of skill stop where you get to hit a button and the lights stop.
They had them in the lobby of my hotel.

[philslot]

ozzy's pic is the backglass from a bally bingo pinball machine.

mgpest is asking about one of the oddest bally EM slots made.

the machines were spectacularly unsuccessful in usa casinos.  When si redd had bally distributing in nevada, they took their inventory of the games and gutted them, turning them into 5 reel novelty slots for use as things like "free spin to win a car".  I don't recall at the moment if each reel has 20, 22, or 25 stops, but best case would be a 1/3200000 chance of winning a car if there's only one car symbol on each reel :-)

attached is the flyer.  I actually have one of these machines that I got from foxslots.  I knew it was missing the wipers for each reel, and didn't have the correct hopper.  Eventually I found another of these machines that had been modified for single coin use and got the payout card part number (which barry then provided) and discovered the bizarre dual-wiper reel wipers, but I've never found a schematic.  I'll have to reverse-engineer one based on similar slots.

after spending a lot of time making reel wipers from parts of standard wipers and some plexiglass, phil anderson (who died a couple years ago) dug out some original wipers and told me the si redd info when I stopped by his warehouse on a reno trip.

[update as of 8/22/2012]

I gave up looking for the schematic for this machine a long time ago, and while on ebay for no apparent reason I searched for bally slot schematics.  The description said nothing about the model number, but the picture of the envelope said 929-1 on it.   The envelope contained the schematic and unit wiper/contact plate diagrams.  I also found a document in phil anderson's warehouse describing the purpose of the diodes in the payout circuits.  I was able to modify a hopper unit from an 891, install the original wipers (the ones I made had one diode miswired), and now have a fully working 929.

the play is almost like a modern video slot with a large number of pay lines.  You spin the reels and except for spelling BINGO, you wait to see if it starts paying and then look up at the bingo card and supercard  to see why.