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Beat the Clock Pinball
Beat the Clock is a four-player, solid-state Bally/Midway pinball machine documented in 1985 under game number OC70. Its central rule replaces a conventional fixed ball count with adjustable time units, allowing a player to continue serving balls until that player's clock expires.
Beat the Clock: machine facts
- Manufacturer
- Bally/Midway Manufacturing Co.
- Game number
- OC70
- Manufacture date recorded by OPDB
- January 1985
- Type
- Solid-state electronic
- Display
- Alphanumeric
- Players
- 4
- Play format
- Adjustable time units rather than a fixed number of balls per game
- Physical balls installed
- 2
Identity and documentation
The manufacturer's parts and operating manual identifies Beat the Clock as game number OC70 and bears the Bally/Midway Manufacturing Co. name. OPDB independently identifies a Bally machine of the same title, records it as a four-player solid-state electronic game, and associates it with the 1985 machine group.
The available dates describe different records rather than establishing a precise commercial release date. OPDB records a January 1985 manufacture date, while a manufacturer ROM/EPROM sheet is dated November 7, 1985 and labeled “Release for Production.”
Timed gameplay
Beat the Clock is organized around playing time instead of a conventional balls-per-game limit. Each player may play successive balls while that player's adjustable time units remain. After the clock reaches zero, the player's game ends when the ball next enters the outhole.
The clock can be stopped by hitting flashing S-T-O-P targets and restarted through a flashing Start Clock rollover. Other documented features can add time units, including completing the T-I-M-E-R targets, making both return lanes, and collecting lit saucers.
Playfield equipment
The manual documents three flippers, three thumper bumpers, two slingshots, saucers, rollover lanes, a six-target bank, and a separate single drop target. Its switch table also identifies the S-T-O-P and T-I-M-E-R target groups used by the timed rules.