BALLY ROCKMAKERS
The Bally Rockmakers Pinball Machine... A great old Pinball!...
Alles behalve in goede staat. Heeft gedreven restaurateur nodig.
Werkt nog wel, maar maakt zoemend
geluid, vierde speler stopt na eerste bal, zijkant kast is niet originele tekening, voorplaat is zeer
goed, maar heeft klein defaultje.
Wens het toestel niet te verkopen, maar liever te ruilen tegen (recentere?) pinball
waar gewoon op gespeeld kan worden.
Heeft U een idee, opmerking of voorstel? Email me dan even.
Ik heb ook enkele videoclips gemaakt (1 MB grootte) van deze pinball.
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Tweede pagina met kleine poster van de Rockmakers.
In researching the world's first dino pinball machine, we discovered the earliest such game appeared August 1968 (some source material says November 1967) with Bally's ROCKMAKERS. It is, unless we missed some hidden oddity, the first game whose theme relied solely on a prehistoric setting. Artist Jerry Kelley, known for his exaggerated and sometimes angular style, created a bizarre bygone landscape of overstated depiction's. His farfetched scenario of distorted inhabitants busying themselves with no particular task places them in a somewhat surreal setting, enchanting the beholder to study it further. Whilst some may criticize Kelley's brontosaurus exactness, what's really at play here is an ingenious sense for captivating a viewer. The artist ignores scientific accuracy and entices player attention with his unique style. After all, pinball machines are meant to attract and extract money from their admirers.
ROCKMAKERS featured zipper-flippers; a cleverly designed mechanism where flippers actually "zipped" together, blocking the ball from draining down the center. Bally built 2,420 games and several of those were shipped to Germany. It succeeded in introducing the dinosaur and prehistoric motifs to pinball machines but by no means started a coin-op illustrative trend.
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