Machine history · Bally
Blackwater 100 Pinball
Blackwater 100 is a Bally solid-state, four-player pinball machine with an alphanumeric display. Its recorded manufacture date is March 1988. Detailed service information documents its physical playfield switches, lamps, solenoids and flipper circuits.
Blackwater 100: machine facts
- Manufacture date
- March 1988
- System
- Solid-state electronic
- Display
- Alphanumeric
- Players
- 4
Machine identity
The identified machine is Bally's Blackwater 100. The catalog record gives March 1988 as its manufacture date and describes it as a four-player solid-state electronic machine with an alphanumeric display.
Independent technical documentation for Blackwater 100 provides machine-specific lamp, solenoid, flipper and switch-matrix charts, supporting its identification as a physical production pinball machine.
Playfield hardware
The service charts document right and top saucers, a raising and lowering gate, left and right slingshots, a drop-target reset, an outhole and an eject mechanism leading to the shooter lane. The switch matrix also identifies named playfield areas including Highway 93, Downhill, Rapids, Cliffhanger and the left and right tunnels.