That is interesting,

Doing some research on mine one of the biggest differences and the very early ones were if the 8 ball on the play field is an insert or painted.

Mine is an earlier serial number I believe but mine is painted making not the very early run

This is all reading. I have know actual knowledge as bank a ball was built 15 years before I was born.

Can you see the balls though the red stripe? And are the balls even there? That is the odd part to me!

Good luck and keep us informed

Looks like yours may clean up nicely, mine was dirtier than that and with a about a days of work came out very nice. Not perfect but a nice playing game.

Bank a ball is fun and challenging at times.

I either get great games or bad games on it.

I found not having it for free play adds to the fun if you get all of the balls the the 8 ball then you can crack a lot of games. If I was a kid playing this game I would have been in heaven. Getting the specials are what makes the game challenging and fun to me!!’

Edit:: I just reread my post I meant the black 8 ball closest to the flippers.

The Gigi I have has SS4 stamped in that location but it has a serial number. MikeO here in KC thinks that's a cab part number.

Odd on the backglass though.

Out of curiosity I just went and looked at mine it also has SS5 stamped in the same spot.

Row Webb has 1 BAB glass left, the flaw he suggests is really trivial. I would suggest you grab it and then frame this odd duck glass.

Umm Ron may not have one left!! I may have it

And if it is the one I have I could not even find the flaw. Mine was horrible

Old and Ron’s I was very happy with the purchase and would recommend it if he still has one.

Todd

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Your game is not a sample game.
The painted-in window was likely done by an operator. Why?.....
I had one where the window was filled in black.
The "BAB" sample playfield has some variations from the production one. There were also early production ones with the variant playfield. Yours is a normal later production one.
I'd carefully scrape out the orange paint from the window, so that the animation balls are again visible.

If you could, post photos of your playfield, and give us the serial number. It likely has the variant playfield. The one I saw was serial number 01072. It was only a playfield though, not a complete game. I submitted photos to ipdb.
The playfield arch stamp was the older black and white type. I believe they may have switched to the green one during the run of this game.

Bank-A-Ball? I have no submissions in queue for that game...

I have submitted photos (#65030 /31) of an early production playfield and serial number, which have been posted for some time. There are also a few other photos of a sample game playfield in the "Bank a Ball" listing submitted by Niki Heim.

He's still offering it on his website

Oh, I thought you meant recent and not yet posted. Thank you for your pics.