Longacres
About This Machine
Longacres, manufactured by Bally in 1942, is a single-player electro-mechanical one-ball horse-racing game. Its backglass resembles that of Bally's earlier 1941 "Pimlico," and factory schematics credit Bally employee Chas G. Troeller with authorship, dated January 1942. The earliest known advertisement found for the game is a distributor ad from May 1942 describing it as a "brand new machine." The game is named for the Longacres Racetrack, which operated in Renton, Washington from 1933 to 1992.
Longacres features 31 trap holes and six passive bumpers, along with a skill lane option for locations operating under five-ball jurisdictions. As a one-ball horse-racing game, it did not pay out coins directly to players; instead, Bally instructed locations to manually reset the totalizer and reserve, then provide players with sufficient coins to cover any replays earned.
Little is documented about the game's overall design credit beyond the schematic authorship, but Longacres remains a notable example of Bally's electro-mechanical one-ball horse-racing machines from the early 1940s.
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Technical Details
- Theme:
- Sports - Horse Racing
- Notable Features:
- Trap holes (31), Passive bumpers (6), Skill Lane option for 5-ball jurisdictions. The Bally paperwork (not yet shown here) describes the game as not paying out coins directly to the player, Instead, Bally provided instructions to the location to manually reset both the totalizer and the reserve, and provide the player with sufficient coins to play any replays earned.