The Quarter Byte

1937 Crossline Study the illustration . . . notice the black lines criss-crossing back and forth on the board. They're part of the panel design--but shoot a ball across any one of those lines and--presto!--the totalizer adds 10 to the score! Uncanny! Mystifying Yet based on a simple, scientific fact. "Magic Mirrors" throw an invisible "Radio Ray" along the black zigzag lines--and totalizer operates every time a ball rolls through the Ray! "Radio Ray" Action ELIMINATES ALL DEAD SPACE FROM PLAY FIELD. NEW "BALLOON TIRE' BUMPERS! Another Bally creation! Pure gum rubber rings mounted on metal "mush- room" posts. "Balloon-Tire" Bumpers, together with new "Rubberail" Coooooooo along edge of board, give the ball a peculiar "English" full of sur- prize twists and twirls . . . and the ACTION which INSURES "PIN GAME" SUCCESS! BE FIRST! CLEAN UP BIG PROFITS! Radio Ray" Action ...

Starry-eyed Battles So the gameroom with the newly rockin RFM needed another ‘new’ pin that I knew was close to clean and enjoying game. Bless my forgiving wife for having 80% of this Data East pin all over the adjoining room for 3 months! Fast approaching Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown 2011, April 29. Sure, why not .. might as well bring this 3pO and enjoy bumping some elbows with some pinheads .. show off the 150 LEDs I just put in under that mass of sparkly-repaired plastics. Mad last week of assembly and frustrations with the LEDs that were (after first power up new lights) giving me a seizure, I crossed a 12v wire and blew something. Oh well, at least someone at the show could help me; perhaps I can get it fixed there and bring it home working. My hasty last week before the expo was also given crazed to a 1937 pinball I wanted to finish and bring as well. Suffice to say that I managed to get both of the pins there - greatly admired for their cleanliness but painfully devoid o...