Night Club

Night Club, designed by Don Hooker for Bally, is a single-player electro-mechanical bingo machine — a distinct category of pinball-adjacent games built around number-matching and multiple-line scoring rather than traditional ramps and modes. Its nightclub and nightlife theme is reflected in the backglass artwork.

Gameplay revolves around 25 trap holes and a card display in the backglass, with Magic Squares and double/triple/quad scoring options driving the action. For an additional purchase, players can press buttons to rearrange the numbers on the backglass card at set points during the game — before the fourth ball, before the fifth ball, or after the fifth ball — a hallmark of the strategic, wagering-adjacent play that defined the bingo genre.

Bally was one of the dominant manufacturers of bingo machines during the electro-mechanical era, and Night Club is a representative example of that lineage rather than a conventional flipper game. Details about its exact release date and broader history are sparse, but it remains an interesting artifact of the bingo machine's place in pinball's development.