See, after your game of 5 balls was done, you could also pump nickels to get extra balls. Shall I talk about the First, Second, and Third Extra ball too? And the odds for the extra game would depend on how high the green odds were when you played the OK game. If those 2 letters lit up, then it would give you an extra game – IF you got the 2 required balls in the OK section. Then there is the OK letters (located on the left of the A-G letters). Unless your ball hit the “rollover” buttons that allowed you to move your screen after the 4th ball or even after the 5th ball. And you’d have to make up your mind of which screen you wanted to play before shooting your 4th ball. The A-G would slide the screen to allow you to play colored sections – besides just the up, down, and diagonal lines. You just had to keep pumping the machine. Usually the A, B, C, and D would come out all at once, but the E, F, & G cost more nickels. So you end up pumping more and more nickels until the odds were to your liking.Īlso, pumping in nickels not only bumped up your odds but also bumped up the A-G letters (located above the odds). Sometimes it’d bump up only one color of the odds up. Sometimes the second nickel would bump the odds up one step. The thing is – you didn’t know how many nickels it would cost. And in order to get the odds up higher, you had to pump in more nickels. Now to start a game – it cost only a nickel. See the red, yellow, and green numbers on the bottom of the board? Those represented getting 3, 4, or 5 in a row. There were odds for getting 3 in a row, 4 in a roll, and 5 in a roll – also known as a “barrel”. The concept was to get at least 3 balls in a roll or colored section depending on the game. Just 25 holes numbered from 1 to 25, bumpers, maybe a couple of rollover buttons, and the home puka at the bottom to shoot the ball again. Nickel machines didn’t have flippers, flashing lights, or ringing bells. Remember when we were kids – we had to be 18 years of age or older just to play pinball machines? And I’m not talking about just nickel machines – but any kind of pinball machines.īut we’re here today to talk about nickel pinball machines – or Bingo Pinball as it’s called on the web.įor those who aren’t familiar with the difference between nickel machines and regular pinball machines – you could win money from nickel machines (yes, it was a form of gambling and yes, it was illegal).
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