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Venus

Manufacturer: Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally]
Type: Electro-mechanical (EM)
Players: 1
Production: Never Produced

About This Machine

Bally's 'Venus' (model 819) is unusual among pinball listings in that it was never actually produced. Bally's internal 'Numerical List of Machines' includes Venus as a planned bingo machine, but records show no release date or wiring part number was ever assigned, and the game did not enter production. Because it appears among machines otherwise released to production in 1967, that year is used as its nominal listing date, though it never reached operators or players.

As an unproduced design, no verified gameplay features, artwork, or theme information exist for Venus. A previously listed designer credit (Don Hooker) has been removed from the record, and a previously cited production estimate of roughly 1,300 units likely belongs instead to a similarly named Bally bingo machine, 1968's 'Venice.'

Venus stands as a reminder that not every entry in manufacturer records corresponds to a real, physical machine. Its listing is of interest primarily to researchers studying Bally's internal planning and unreleased projects rather than to collectors of a tangible machine.

Technical Details

Model Number:
819

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