Blue Diamond

Blue Diamond, manufactured by Willy Michiels' WIMI Games of Belgium, is a little-documented solid-state electronic bingo machine. Its exact year of production is unknown, and few details about its design or gameplay have survived, which adds to its obscurity among collectors and historians of European pinball.

What is known is that it operates on solid-state electronics, a technology that began replacing electromechanical components in pinball and bingo machines generally starting in the mid-to-late 1970s. Beyond that, and its classification as a single-player bingo machine, specific gameplay features and artwork details for Blue Diamond are not documented.

WIMI Games was a relatively small, lesser-known manufacturer within the pinball and bingo machine world, and machines like Blue Diamond illustrate how much of that smaller-scale European production history remains thinly recorded. Further research may eventually fill in more of this machine's story.