Spectrum Pinball Machine by Bally 1982

Rare 1982 game from Bally. Rare because players couldn't understand it and apparently wouldn't play it so most were just scrapped!! Really quirky with great sounds and the way the sides of the playfield serve as tunnels for the ball is really clever. If I ever suss it out I'll let you know.

Quoted from Allan Reizman (a member of the Bally design team)

"This game had an interesting history. It never tested well and management wanted to scrap it. However they had ordered parts to build around 900 games and when there was surplus capacity on the assembly line they went ahead and built them. Unfortunately distributors were un-interested in ordering more pins let alone a bad game like Spectrum so the games sat piled up in the Bally factory for months until they were spirited off to unseen warehouses. In those days if you 'shipped' a game anywhere it could be reported to stockholders even if it was not actually sold so companies would hide unsold inventory off site wherever they could.
In the end they probably only sold around 300 or so of these games with the remainder salvaged for parts and scrap." Fascinating!!!