Kentucky

Kentucky (model 419) is a one-ball, single-player electro-mechanical payout machine manufactured by Bally Manufacturing Corporation, released January 16, 1941. Like many one-ball machines of its era, it was built around a horse-racing theme, and players paid a nickel to shoot a single ball per game.

Few further details of Kentucky's playfield design, artwork, or specific scoring mechanisms are documented. It shares its name with an earlier, unrelated Bally release (model 518), and its own mechanics were later reworked into a replay-only version released the same year under the name 'Blue Grass.'

Kentucky's sparse documentation is typical of one-ball payout machines from the period, many of which are now rare and poorly recorded compared to Bally's later multi-ball and replay games.