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Machine history · Bally · 1972

El Toro Pinball

El Toro is a Bally single-player electro-mechanical flipper pinball machine manufactured in 1972. Its documented features include triple-tone scoring chimes, mystery-based extra balls and specials, and conversion to add-a-ball play.

Bally · 1972 · Original production game

El Toro: machine facts

Manufactured
April 1972
Type
Electro-mechanical
Player count
One player
Game format
Single-player flipper

Features and play

El Toro introduced triple-tone musical chimes, with different tones for scoring values of 10, 100 and 1,000 points. Cash Box described eight scoring objectives at each of those values, along with rollovers whose value could increase according to the player's skill.

The machine could award extra balls and specials through a mystery-skill system. Players first lit E-L-T-O-R-O using the upper rollovers, then attempted to send the ball through the left center lane when the special was lit. Bally also described the game as operable with or without match and convertible to add-a-ball play.

Production

The catalog record identifies El Toro as a Bally game with an April 1972 manufacture date. Contemporary coverage in Cash Box reported that Bally had begun volume delivery of the new single-player flipper game during the week of May 20, 1972.

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