Galaxy Ranger

Bally

Galaxy Ranger

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Manufacturer

Bally Manufacturing Co.

January 1st, 1978

Unknown

Galaxy Ranger on the IPSND.


Main details

4 player game

Digital

normal

manual

No

No

No

No


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Playfield details

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Design team

Game Design: Gary Gayton
Artwork: Kevin O'Connor


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Noteworthy features

  • Single left flipper, combo right flipper with the extra connected to a crank instead to its own flipper coil. The flippers are always on regardless of tilting the game or game over.
  • Scoring display is only a single 6-digit LED display. The game cycles backwards to show each player's score until the next player's turn is up. Each bulb lights the player# and ball#.
  • Game always plays with 5 balls. There is no adjustment.
  • The "brain board" utilizes a special chip programmed to handle I/O functions. This chip is an integrated CPU, ROM, RAM and peripheral I/O into one. It is very difficult to find and requires special equipment to program.
  • There is a built-in test mode. Simply slide the switch from PLAY to TEST and it identifies the ROM ID, cycle lights and solenoids.
  • The board uses a shared matrix for lamps and switches. Half use lights and the other half senses switches.
  • The game board has a single-tone audio generator capable of "dings" and playing short tunes.

Trivia

  • This is one of some of the Bally home-only series, its true meaning of "home use only" machines.
  • Bally made "brain boards" exclusively for home series that uses a single computer/I-O chip, drivers for solenoids and lamps, switch inputs and a single-tone audio generator that can play short tunes.
  • Their playfield is the same size of a professional, standard-size playfield, but the scorebox is a smaller version with a single LED display capable of showing multiple players' scores.

Backbox ornament(s)

Smaller scorebox with "brain board", a condensed CPU/driver I/O and sound board. It even has feature lights on its own PCB.

Video mode

This machine has no dot matrix or video display, so it has no videmode.

Latest software version

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