1957 Bally Carnival pinball machine
The 1957 Bally Circus was one of only three models
of pinball machines made by Bally in the 1950s (Bally
concentrated on gambling devices like Bingos during that time).
The 1957 Bally Circus is basically a copy of the 1956
Bally Balls-a-Poppin. These two games have a very
unique feature, in that it uses 9 balls! And YES you
can be playing all 9 balls at once!! The idea is to
increase the bonus ladder to the top, and then sink
a ball into the center kick out hole. On the left side
of the playfield, the game automatically kicks out
up to four balls, and then kicks out the ball in the
center hole. Do it again, and you have up to 9 balls
on the playfield at once. Note this auto lauch
multi-ball feature was 'stolen' for the 1981 Bally Centaur
(though that game only goes to 5 balls at once).
This is the actual game at the Ann Arbor Michigan pinball museum.
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