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1970 · Bally

Big Valley

Known for Right lock saucer, Left lock saucer, Gopher Gate and Fox Gate. Western desert hills at sunset, open sky gradient, rolling sage-green hills and rocky outcrop.

Year
1970
Maker
Bally
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Score reels
Players
4

Known for

  • saucer

    Right lock saucer

  • saucer

    Left lock saucer

  • gate

    Gopher Gate

  • gate

    Fox Gate

  • Lane

    Big Pine Pass

  • Lane

    Top-center lane

  • Multiball

    Big Valley Multiball

On the playfield

  • green
  • orange
  • yellow
  • black
Big Valley playfield
Spotted in this photo
  • 2 flippers
  • 4 pop bumpers
  • 2 slingshots

Full vision analysis

Toy 1

  • Up Post disc

Holes 2

  • Right lock saucer saucer
  • Left lock saucer saucer

Bumper 1

  • Red and green bumpers

Target 1

  • Light bumper targets

Lanes 3

  • Big Pine Pass
  • Top-center lane
  • Gold Canyon

Posts and gates 3

  • Gopher Gate gate
  • Fox Gate gate
  • Center post post

Control 1

  • Lowering rollovers buttons

On the backglass

  • orange
  • blue
  • green
  • black
Big Valley backglass

Full vision analysis

Who and what

  • man Cowboy, white hat, pale blue shirt, orange neckerchief, dark moustache, leaning back with arm flung out as the horse rears
  • animal Tan or fawn bucking horse with white mane and tail, rearing, a rifle held across the saddle
  • animal Large orange, red and cream striped tiger lying on a rock, mouth open, teeth visible, long tail curling left
  • man Figure in pale hat and light shirt seated on the boulder at right, one fist raised in the air
  • other Small log cabin with smoking chimney on the green hill at mid-right

Setting

  • Western desert hills at sunset
  • Open sky gradient
  • Rolling sage-green hills
  • Rocky outcrop

Text on it

  • Bally
  • BIG
  • VALLEY
  • 2 UP
  • 3 UP
  • 4 UP
  • 1 UP
  • 03250
  • 1 to 4 CAN PLAY
  • TILT
  • BALL IN PLAY
  • Another
  • BGR
  • Resto
  • Restoration

How it plays

  1. Multiballs 1

    • Big Valley Multiball

Made by

Design
Ted Zale
Art
Christian Marche

Reference

Linked terms
  • Right lock saucer also called Right saucer also called Gopher lock
  • Left lock saucer also called Left saucer also called Fox lock
  • Top-center lane also called 5K release lane
  • Up Post also called Up Post disc
  • Red and green bumpers also called Light Bumpers
  • Big Valley Multiball also called Multiball
Playfield vision analysis

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Big Valley playfield

Playfield

  • green
  • orange
  • yellow
  • black

Fingerprint: Upside-down cowboy on pale bucking horse painted center playfield below pop bumpers. Small pink-and-brown greyhound standing nearby. Four white pop-bumper caps ringed with red-and-green carnival sunbursts each lettered POINTS 100 WHEN LIT. Yellow GLAD STON sign upper right beside safari-helmeted man. Western desert, aging striped paper texture.

Distinctive

The most memorable element is the upside-down cowboy on a pale bucking horse painted into the centre of the playfield, directly below the pop bumpers, with a small pink-and-brown greyhound standing beneath him. A second unforgettable detail is the row of four white pop-bumper caps ringed like red-and-green carnival sunbursts, each lettered 'POINTS 100 WHEN LIT'. A yellow sign on the upper right reads 'GLAD STON' beside a painted safari-helmeted man and a wagon-wheel target, and '2 TO 4 ELEVENS BONUS' plus a separate 'RED ... ELEVENS' card sit on the cactus side. The apron is dominated by a big cream instruction card headed '1 TO 4 CAN PLAY' with a modern QR code stuck to it.

Setting

  • Desert plain with saguaro cacti and agave
  • Open sky above the horizon arch
  • Hillside with a tree on the right

Symbols

  • Playing-card spade and star shapes at the upper left
  • White pop-bumper sunbursts
  • Agave and yucca plants
  • Saguaro cactus
  • Point values 10, 100, 1000
  • Arrows and lightning-bolt flipper markers

Notable shapes

  • Inverted kite-shaped pop-bumper housing, red and white striped
  • Curved chrome ball guide arch at the very top
  • Two large pentagon/leaf-shaped painted inserts with agave fans at the lower left and lower right

Art motifs

  • Ageing striped paper over painted playfield
  • Large five-pointed stars and spades

Themes

  • Old west
  • Hunting and fishing
  • Cowboy
  • Desert

Title on it

  • Glad ston

Text on it

  • POINTS 100 WHEN LIT
  • OPENS FOX GATE
  • OPENS COPPER GATE
  • RED BUMPERS
  • GREEN BUMPERS
  • 2 TO 4 ELEVENS BONUS
  • 300 SCORES AND FOX HOLE
  • 100 FLITES BONUS
  • 2 TO 4 RED ELEVENS BONUS
  • GLAD STON
  • GATE OPEN WHEN LIT
  • Down POST
  • FLIPPER BUTTON
  • 1 TO 4 CAN PLAY
  • 3 BALLS
  • 1 PLAY 10
  • 2. DEPOSIT 2. NICKELS
  • 3 PLAYS 25
  • Bally
  • MANUFACTURING CORP.
  • CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60618
  • PATENT NOTICE IN CABINET BACK
  • Copyright 1966 Bally Manufacturing Corp
  • 10
  • 1000
  • 100
Drop targets
Two banks of vertical 1000-drop targets on the right-hand lane plus a small two-bumper elevens cluster on the left
Slingshots
Two plain triangular rubber slingshots below the flipper gap
Upper playfield
Arched top section under a curved wire ball guide, with two circular saucer-style bumper openings (fox gate and copper gate) and a red star pop-bumper housing
Apron and lower playfield
Pale green lower deck with a large cream '1 to 4 can play' instruction card, a '3 balls' pricing card, a yellow panel bearing the red script logo and a printed manufacturer/copyright line, and a qr code sticker on the instruction card
Who and what
Kind Description
Man Painted cowboy in blue jeans, pink shirt and purple vest, upside down, arms locked onto a pale pink-and-brown bucking horse with a black mane and white tail
Animal Bucking horse, pale pink/tan body, brown saddle, black tail, drawn tumbling head-down
Animal Small pink and brown greyhound or whippet standing in profile at centre-bottom
Man Head-and-shoulders portrait in a khaki safari helmet inside a dark oval medallion on the upper right
Animal Fox head, orange with black nose, painted mid-right beside a 'gate open when lit' arrow
Animal Dark green silhouette of a largemouth bass leaping on the upper left cactus panel
Full description

A full-length wood-rail pinball playfield shot from above under glass, with blue LED reflection streaks across the middle. The lower two-thirds is a flat pale sage-green plain. The top third is divided into coloured wedges: a yellow-tan upper-left quadrant with a painted saguaro cactus and a mounted bass jumping, a bright orange-red upper-right quadrant with a man in a safari helmet, and a yellow 'GLAD STON' sign, a green tree and a wagon-wheel disc on the right. Four white pop-bumper caps with red and green sunburst rings read 'POINTS 100 WHEN LIT' and one reads '100 WHEN LIT'. Two large flat-sawn maple-gondola bumpers flank an upside-down bucking horse in a purple-vested cowboy, and a small pink-and-brown greyhound stands nearby. A fox head with 'GATE OPEN WHEN LIT' is painted mid-right, and blue and green agave/yucca plants fill the lower corners. The lower apron carries a cream instruction card headed '1 TO 4 CAN PLAY', a '3 BALLS' card, red 'FLIPPER BUTTON' arrows, and a printed manufacturer line reading 'Bally Manufacturing Corp. Chicago, Illinois 60618' with a copyright notice and a QR code.

Backglass vision analysis

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Big Valley backglass

Backglass

  • orange
  • blue
  • green
  • black

Fingerprint: "BIG VALLEY", tan bucking horse rearing, cowboy in white hat, striped tiger sprawling on boulder, log cabin, sunset landscape, leafy tree silhouettes.

Distinctive

A tan bucking horse and its rider are thrown backwards at the upper left, next to the title. A huge striped tiger sprawls across the bottom centre on a boulder. The top score display is enclosed in a black bush or cloud silhouette with leafy green tree shapes poking out above it.

Setting

  • Western desert hills at sunset
  • Open sky gradient
  • Rolling sage-green hills
  • Rocky outcrop

Symbols

  • Leafy green tree
  • Black bush silhouettes
  • Spiky agave or yucca plant at lower left
  • Rocks and boulders
  • Smoke plume from chimney

Lettering

  • Cream cursive script word above very large grey-shaded block capitals with a red v-shaped wedge behind; small yellow sans-serif up numerals and white player-number counters

Themes

  • Wild west
  • Cowboys
  • Frontier
  • Landscape
  • Horses
  • Tiger
  • Hunting

Title on it

  • Big valley

Text on it

  • Bally
  • BIG
  • VALLEY
  • 2 UP
  • 3 UP
  • 4 UP
  • 1 UP
  • 03250
  • 1 to 4 CAN PLAY
  • TILT
  • BALL IN PLAY
  • Another
  • BGR
  • Resto
  • Restoration
Who and what
Kind Description
Man Cowboy, white hat, pale blue shirt, orange neckerchief, dark moustache, leaning back with arm flung out as the horse rears
Animal Tan or fawn bucking horse with white mane and tail, rearing, a rifle held across the saddle
Animal Large orange, red and cream striped tiger lying on a rock, mouth open, teeth visible, long tail curling left
Man Figure in pale hat and light shirt seated on the boulder at right, one fist raised in the air
Other Small log cabin with smoking chimney on the green hill at mid-right
Full description

Translucent backglass with a Wild-West landscape painted in flat cartoon colour. Upper left shows a cowboy in a white hat, pale blue shirt, orange neckerchief and dark moustache, leaning back in the stirrups with one arm flung out as a tan bucking horse rears, its white mane and tail flying and a rifle held across the saddle. The title sits upper centre-left: a cream script word above huge block letters reading BIG VALLEY, the letters shaded white to grey with a red V wedge dropping behind them. Background is an orange-to-brown sunset sky over blue and sage-green hills, with a broad green-leafed tree on the right, a small log cabin with smoking chimney mid-right, and black bush silhouettes behind the player-one score window. A tiger with orange, red and cream stripes lies across the lower centre on a black-and-grey rock, mouth open showing teeth. On the right, a man in a pale hat and light shirt sits on the rock raising a fist. Four player score windows with black cloud-shaped surrounds sit right and lower right; the player one window has yellow numerals 03250.

Big Valley backglass

Backglass

  • yellow
  • green
  • black
  • blue

Fingerprint: Giant snarling orange tiger with black stripes lunging across lower centre overrunning greyhound, rearing tan horse with rifle-holding cowboy at upper left, huge broad-canopied tree filling right half, tall white BIG VALLEY lettering shaded red at base, black cloud-shaped score panels over yellow sunburst

Distinctive

A giant snarling orange tiger with black stripes lunging across the bottom centre, jaws wide open, overrunning a running greyhound - the most eye-catching element. A rearing tan horse with a rifle-holding cowboy at upper left. A huge broad-canopied tree filling the right half of the glass. Tall white BIG VALLEY block lettering shaded red at the base. Black cloud-shaped score panels floating over a yellow sunburst sky.

Setting

  • Yellow and orange sunburst sky band across the top
  • Pale green rolling hills
  • Blue sky wedge on the left
  • Bright green pasture on the right with a small white farmhouse and a white tower
  • Large brown-trunked tree with rounded bright green canopy
  • Small flock of tiny sheep in the mid-distance pasture
  • Grey boulders lower right
  • Pale blue water or road strip along the bottom

Symbols

  • Four black cloud-shaped score panels
  • Digit reel score displays
  • Large lime-green multi-pointed leaf at lower left
  • Black jagged starburst behind the 1 up counter
  • White and grey farmhouse with pitched roof
  • Narrow white tower or silo
  • Chrome inner frame border
  • Light green outer cabinet border
  • Four coloured numbered ovals

Lettering

  • Tall condensed sans-serif block capitals in white with a red-to-orange shaded lower half and grey drop shadow; smaller plain white and green sans-serif capitals for the player and instruction text; one small white cursive script word above the title

Themes

  • Western
  • Big game hunt
  • Tiger hunt
  • Ranch farm
  • Countryside

Title on it

  • Big valley

Text on it

  • Bally
  • BIG
  • VALLEY
  • 2 UP
  • 3 UP
  • 4 UP
  • 1 UP
  • 0 0 0 0 0
  • 4 4 8 3 0
  • 1 to 4 CAN PLAY
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • BALL IN PLAY
Who and what
Kind Description
Man Cartoon cowboy, brown wide-brim hat, yellow neckerchief, pale green shirt, riding a rearing tan-and-cream horse at upper left while holding a wooden rifle angled downward; grinning, one arm outstretched
Animal Tan and cream horse rearing on its hind legs, mane and tail flying, front legs raised, blue bridle
Animal Huge orange tiger with black stripes, white chest and muzzle, mouth open snarling with red tongue and fangs, one forepaw extended with black claws, lunging left to right across the lower centre
Animal Sleek tan and white greyhound or whippet running at full stretch across the bottom left, mouth open, long tail streaming
Man Man in a white flat cap and white shirt standing on grey boulders at lower right, one arm raised in the air, near the tree and pasture
Animal Small flock of tiny white sheep scattered on the green pasture in the mid-distance
Full description

A square backglass in a light green painted border, chrome inner frame and black outline. The background is a yellow-to-orange sunburst band across the top fading into pale green hills and blue sky. The title sits high centre-left in tall condensed block capitals, white with a red-to-orange shaded lower half and grey drop shadow, with a small white cursive script word above-left. Upper left, a cartoon cowboy in a brown hat, yellow neckerchief and pale green shirt rides a rearing tan-and-cream horse, one arm holding a wooden rifle angled down. Four white score windows in black cloud-shaped panels carry digit reels: 00000 for 2 UP top right, 00000 for 3 UP mid right, 00000 for 4 UP bottom right, and 44830 beside 1 UP at left, set against a black jagged starburst with a big lime-green cannabis-style leaf below. Lower centre, a huge snarling orange tiger with black stripes and a white chest lunges right, jaws open, claws extended, overrunning a running greyhound. A large brown-trunked tree with a bright green canopy fills the right half. Lower right a man in a white cap and shirt stands on grey boulders with one arm raised, beside a small white farmhouse, a white tower, pasture and tiny sheep. Bottom left reads 1 to 4 CAN PLAY above four numbered ovals; bottom right reads BALL IN PLAY.