Apollo Ball

The Apollo Ball, designed by Don Hooker for Bally as Model 860, is an electro-mechanical bingo-style pinball machine. Bally's Numerical List of Machines shows a release-to-production date of September 25, 1969, describing it as a '6 card bingo,' though little further information survives about how it fared afterward.

As a bingo machine, Apollo Ball belongs to a distinct category of pinball, more closely tied to gambling-style multi-card scoring than to the flipper-driven skill games most players associate with pinball. Details of its specific playfield layout are not well documented in surviving records.

Interestingly, Taito later released its own six-card bingo machine under the same name, 'Apollo Ball,' around 1971, unrelated to Bally's earlier release. Specific theme and artwork details for Bally's original 1969 Apollo Ball remain unconfirmed, leaving room for further research by collectors and historians.