Bull Market

Bull Market is an electro-mechanical bingo-style pinball machine from Bally Manufacturing Corporation, designed by Don Hooker. While Bally's own documentation only confirms a release-to-production date of March 15, 1976 (an earlier claimed manufacture date of March 1976 has been withdrawn as unsubstantiated), the machine dates to the mid-1970s, a period when Hooker was still producing bingo titles for Bally even as the company's business had shifted primarily toward pinball production.

Specific gameplay features and theme details for Bull Market are not well documented in surviving records. As with other Bally bingo machines from Hooker's later output, it likely combined trap holes and feature-selection mechanics typical of the line, though the exact configuration for this title remains unconfirmed.

Despite the limited documentation, Bull Market remains an interesting piece of pinball history for collectors interested in Bally's late-era bingo production, offering a window into Don Hooker's decades-long design career at the company, from the peak of the bingo era through its final years, ending with 1980's Continental.