Centaur Playfield
$995.00 USD
Bally CENTAUR
Short-Run Reproduction Playfields from CPR
This masterpiece of fine-sketch artwork has always been virtually impossible to remaster as a re-drawn vectorized digital layout. So for this run, we went back to the Bally original films and oldschool-silkscreened this batch, in real classic enamels. The importance in artwork provenance for this title cannot be denied. Check out the photo gallery. You’ll see why. Centaur playfields simply have to look a certain way – and only the original artwork and silkscreening was going to cut it for this one. So many people have been requesting Centaur for so long, we finally revisited this title one more time. Please note, silkscreening playfields will remain extremely rare here (if not possibly never again), so…. Consider these “get them while they’re available!”
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| Manufacturer: | Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally] | |||||
| Project Date: | February 03, 1981 | |||||
| Date Of Manufacture: | October, 1981 | |||||
| Model Number: | 1239 | |||||
| MPU: | Bally MPU AS-2518-35 | |||||
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) | |||||
| Production: | 3,700 units (confirmed) | |||||
| Theme: | Fantasy – Motorcycles | |||||
| Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), 4-bank drop targets (2), 4-in-line drop targets, 5-ball multiball. Ball hitting recessed red target in upper right corner of playfield is held there momentarily by a magnet under the playfield. Has speech, with operator-optionable reverberation.
This game has the standard ball-in-play tilt or can be operator-optioned to have two tilts per game. This means if a player activates the tilt mechanism a first time, the word “Warning” lights up on the silk-screened backglass and remains lit while the game continues for that player without penalty. However, if this player tilts a second time, even on subsequent balls in play, the game ends. In Game Over mode, pressing either flipper button causes the playfield lights to highlight each major scoring feature, one at a time, while the speech card identifies that feature by name. An Attract Mode operator option causes all five balls to automatically shoot onto the playfield every 15 minutes to interact with the pop bumpers and slingshots until they drain. A similar option appeared on Mirco Games, Inc.’s 1975 ‘Spirit of 76’. |
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| Design by: | Jim Patla | |||||
| Art by: | Paul Faris | |||||
| Mechanics by: | Irv Grabel | |||||
| Notes: | Unlike other Bally electronic pinball games, their documentation for this game shows the model number only as 1239, not 1239-E.
Designer Jim Patla said that ‘Centaur’ was inspired by the classic Bally’s 1956 ‘Balls-A-Poppin’ and that Irv Grabel designed the multiball mechanism on this game. Uses a “Say it Again” reverb card in addition to the “Squawk and Talk” speech card. *Info Courtesy of IPDB |
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