Kentucky Star

Kentucky Star is a single-player, electro-mechanical (EM) horse-racing payout machine manufactured by Bally Manufacturing Corporation, cataloged as model 518-A. No production year has been documented for this machine, though its model number places it close to Bally's model 518 'Kentucky,' suggesting it dates to the same general era of Bally's early one-ball payout games.

As a one-ball payout machine, Kentucky Star's gameplay would have centered on a single shot per coin, with scoring tied to its horse-racing theme rather than the flipper-based, multi-ball play that would come to define pinball starting in 1947. No details of its specific playfield features, artwork, or designer are currently documented.

Given the scarcity of records, Kentucky Star remains a lesser-known entry in Bally's early payout-machine lineup, of interest mainly to specialists researching the company's pre-war horse-racing games.