Big Bat

Big Bat, manufactured by Bally Midway in 1984, is a solid-state, baseball-themed bat game, one of many entries in a long line of baseball pin games stretching back to the 1930s and 40s, rather than an early example of the theme. It runs on the Bally MPU AS-2518-133 and uses the Bally AS-2518-61 'Squawk and Talk' sound board for speech and sound effects.

As a dedicated bat game, Big Bat centers gameplay around a bat-swing mechanic rather than conventional pinball flippers, continuing a format Bally and other manufacturers had used for baseball-themed games for decades. The solid-state electronics and speech synthesis of the 'Squawk and Talk' board would have given it a more modern feel than its electro-mechanical baseball-game predecessors.

Specific details of Big Bat's artwork, designer, and production run are not well documented, but as a 1980s solid-state take on the classic bat-game format, it represents an interesting later chapter in pinball's long history of baseball-themed machines.