Xenon Playfield

Name: Xenon Playfield
SKU: PLAF-XENON
Price: 949.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$949.00 USD

Bally XENON
Short-Run Reproduction Playfields from CPR

FINALLY BACK FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2012 !! New release for April 2022 ! Depending on sales results, we’ll try to keep these in standard rotation from now on. 5-layer polyeurethane clearcoated. Complete gallery with close-ups for your consideration. As with all our small-batch runs, consider these “get them while they’re available!”

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SKU: PLAF-XENON Category: Playfields

Xenon

Manufacturer:

Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally]

Project Date:

November 26, 1979

Date Of Manufacture:

November, 1980

Model Number:

1196

MPU:

Bally MPU AS-2518-35

Type:

Solid State Electronic (SS)

Production:

11,000 units (confirmed)

Theme:

Fantasy

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (4), Slingshots (2), Kick-out holes (2), 4-bank drop targets (1), Mini-rollover buttons (4), Standup targets (2), Spinning target (1), 2-ball multiball. Right ramp sends ball through elevated tube to left-side lane. Infinity lights behind backglass. Has speech (a sexy, female voice).

Maximum displayed point score is 9,999,990 points per player.

Design by:

Greg Kmiec

Art by:

Paul Faris

Music by:

Suzanne Ciani

Sound by:

Rehman Merchant, Chris Granner, Suzanne Ciani

Software by:

Rehman Merchant

Notes:

Unlike other Bally electronic pinball games, their documentation for this game shows the model number only as 1196, not 1196-E.

This is the first talking Bally game, using the AS-2518-56 sound board and the AS-2518-57 “Vocalizer” board instead of the “Squawk and Talk” system.

Electronic music composer Suzanne Ciani composed the music and performed all of the voices for Xenon. You can learn more about Ciani’s involvement in Xenon at her former official website, now archived, which has a lot of information about this game.

Pinball art collector Harold Balde reports this information to accompany his image of an experimental playfield overlay:

Bally experimented with printing the artwork on mylar then attaching it to the playfield as a cost savings measure. The artwork is not the same as the production Xenon – Paul Faris went back and airbrushed the art to make it look better for the 4-color process. At least one or two games were made with this overlay.

Artist Paul Faris told us that he recalls there was a problem of applying those mylar overlays accurately after the boards had been routed and the inserts glued in.

*Info Courtesy of IPDB

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