Serial number might help sort it out.

LTG : )

Completely off topic, but that looks like one of the most borinig pins that I have ever seen.

Actually, a nice rule set and a spectacular backglass. The women are drawn well. Also there is a plane in the sky with luggage falling out!

Not a prototype, virtually all released games had the "outhole bonus" stuff screened on the PF while the brochure and prototypes did not.

Those are actually people falling out of the plane in the backglass....not luggage!

actually its 2 people falling out and a bag

I don't know about the game play, but yea, Dave Christenson sure knew how to draw voluptuous ladies. Also of note, the 'insert coin here' belt buckle on the closer woman. Not so subtle reference?! And yes, I agree with the poster, no graphics would seem to be a prototype.

As Lloyd mentioned, what's the serial number? That should tell you whether its a proto or not.

Very well could be a sample game. As stated above the serial number should designate if it is. Although I don't know offhand the method Bally used to signify a sample.
Alex

Another cool looking Bally single player

Dude, it's an EM. They're all like that. It's just a completely different game. They are a lot of fun in their own right and actually take a bit more skill and concentration. If all someone has played are DMD pins, they'd consider these too much of a "drain-fest" and move on.

If that's a reference, then what are the words "BALLS TO" referencing that's actually closer to her "region"? Two balls? (Preemptive strike: I know it's for the "balls to play" lighted numbers, just pointing out the bigger and closer words. )

Look at the buckle to the multiple creases in the shorts and turn the picture upside down and it reveals the message.

Better detail > http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=343&picno=14938

I was told its supposed to be D.B. Cooper along with bags of money or a couple of the extra parachutes he demanded and also received.

And I think I like my version best of all.

Kim

Look at the buckle to the multiple creases in the shorts and turn the picture upside down and it reveals the message.
Better detail > http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=343&picno=14938

Not sure I understand. Why upside down? Anyone?
Kim

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Not sure I understand. Anyone?
Kim

I did the same thing, and I figured I wasn't dirty enough to get it. But if it's too dirty for the man behind this to get it, we're in trouble.

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Pilots name tag is "Big John".

Not sure I understand. Why upside down? Anyone?
Kim

I had to take a step back and look again. Upside down is not required.

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*sniff* You make me so proud.

That's what I was thinking. Thanks

Kim

Wow, I'm surprised the pilot isn't drawn with his flight plan binder in his pocket!

I don't think so, It's very unlikely, and why would any one sell the prototype. The machine looks like one of the older ones, so the prototype is probably wrecked. I'm surprised that yours is in such a condition.

Wow your game is in fantastic shape.

Cool find. Prototypes are white board games. More likely, yours is some version of a sample run.

On Gottliebs, sample runs were marked with an "S". They were made and sent out for trial runs to knock out any bugs and gauge interest before the production run. Sometimes the sample run was higher than the production run. Sometimes there was no production run.

I'm thinking Bally did the same thing but maybe didn't mark them as such. I have a Joust head to head that also matches the flyer and is the only one I've ever seen that does. It has no special number other than an early one.