Bowl A Line

Bowl A Line is an electro-mechanical (EM) bingo machine produced by Bally Manufacturing Corporation, though it is not an original design - it is a field conversion of Bally's 1954 'Variety', carried out by a third party rather than the factory itself. Such conversions were common practice, with operators and distributors updating or renaming older bingo machines to keep them fresh for location owners.

As a bingo-style machine, Bowl A Line would have relied on the scoring, card-lighting, and skill-shot mechanisms characteristic of that genre rather than the flipper-based play of typical pinball machines. Details of its exact conversion date, theme, and specific playfield layout are not documented.

Because so little primary information survives about this particular conversion, Bowl A Line is best understood as a historical curiosity illustrating how operators repurposed Bally's popular 'Variety' cabinet during the bingo-machine era rather than as a distinct factory product in its own right.