Six Shooter

Six Shooter, designed by Ted Zale and released by Bally Manufacturing Corporation in October 1966, is a rare electromechanical pinball machine with an American West theme — only 100 units were produced, making surviving examples quite scarce today. It was launched at the Chicago MOA show in late October 1966.

Gameplay features two flippers, six mushroom bumpers, two kick-out holes, and a single spinning bumper. Six Shooter is also notable mechanically: it's reportedly the first Bally game to use a motorized trip relay bank, a mechanism Bally wouldn't use again until 1968's 'RockMakers.' A surviving engineering prototype of the game shares cabinet artwork with the later 1971 release 'Firecracker,' though in different colors.

With detailed documentation scarce for a game this rare, Six Shooter remains an intriguing footnote in Bally's 1960s output, both for its American West theme and for its unusual production history as one of the company's lowest-volume runs.