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4 Queens Pinball
4 Queens is a single-player electro-mechanical pinball machine manufactured by Bally. Bally documentation dates project number 890 to 1970, while contemporary trade coverage announced commercial delivery in January 1971. Its playfield centers on lighting four playing-card queens, completing an A-B-C-D bumper sequence and scoring through kickout holes.
4 Queens: machine facts
- Manufacturer
- Bally Manufacturing Corporation
- Bally project number
- 890
- Manufacture date
- December 1970
- Commercial delivery
- January 1971
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Players
- One
- Display
- Score reels
Release and identity
Bally's archival records identify 4 Queens as game project number 890 and date its parts lists to 1970. A separate machine registry gives a December 1970 manufacture date and identifies it as a single-player electro-mechanical machine with score reels.
The January 9, 1971 issue of Cash Box reported that Bally was delivering the machine that week. The same issue carried a Bally advertisement presenting 4 Queens as a solo-player flipper pinball machine, establishing it as a commercial production model rather than a prototype, conversion or exhibition prop.
Gameplay
The principal special is built around the queens of the four playing-card suits. A queen lights when the lit D bumper is hit, while the D bumper becomes available after the A, B and C bumpers are lit in sequence. Lighting all four queens awards the Sudden Special. Lighting the first three also enables a Skill Shot Special at the top-center rollover.
Two Spot-Letter targets and a Spot-Letter kickout hole can advance the current letter sequence. A central Bonus Kickout scores a mystery value that advances from 1,000 to 5,000, then returns to 1,000. Entering that hole also closes the flipper gap through Bally's flipper-zipper mechanism.