1966 · Bally
Six Sticks
Known for Blue mushroom bumper, Red mushroom bumpers, Yellow mushroom bumper and Mini flippers. Flat pale sea-green painted field with white ice-scuff streaks, cream and tan wooden backbox frame and vertical riveted rails with round bolt heads between the panels.
- Year
- 1966
- Maker
- Bally
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 6
Known for
- Bumper
Blue mushroom bumper
- Bumper
Red mushroom bumpers
- Bumper
Yellow mushroom bumper
- extra flipper
Mini flippers
On the playfield
Hole 1
- Left wall kicker kicker
Bumpers 6
- White mushroom bumper
- Blue mushroom bumper
- Red mushroom bumpers
- Yellow mushroom bumper
- Bumper #1
- Bumper #2
Flipper 1
- Mini flippers extra flipper
Control 1
- Rollover button button
On the backglass
Who and what
- man Largest figure at lower centre: adult male in royal-blue hockey sweater with white number 6 on the chest, dark shorts, blue socks, brown leather glove, short dark hair, leaning forward in a skating stride with a yellow wooden stick held low across his body
- man Directly behind: adult male in a red sweater with white sleeve stripes, dark shorts, black skates, gripping a yellow stick
- man Middle of the column: adult male in a yellow-gold sweater and dark shorts, skating with a stick held across his waist
- man Upper middle: adult male in a blue sweater and dark shorts, crouched low in a defensive stance with a stick flat on the ice
- man Upper: adult male in an orange sweater with white trim, dark shorts, arms raised holding a stick
- man Smallest, top of the column: adult male in a blue-and-white sweater, partly overlapped by the title lettering
Setting
- Flat pale sea-green painted field with white ice-scuff streaks
- Cream and tan wooden backbox frame
- Vertical riveted rails with round bolt heads between the panels
Text on it
- Bally
- 6 MANN SPIELER
- SIX
- STICKS
- 1. SPIELER
- 2. SPIELER
- 3. SPIELER
- 4. SPIELER
- 5. SPIELER
- 6. SPIELER
- 0195
- KUGEL
- IM SPIEL
- FÜR 1-6 SPIELER
- WEITKAMPF MACHT MEHR SPASS!
How it plays
-
Goals 1
- Collecting 1-2-3
Made by
- Design
- Ted Zale
Reference
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- green
- red
- blue
- yellow
Fingerprint: SIX STICKS six ice-hockey players skating diagonal drill line down center of green backglass; front man in blue sweater with white 6 carving forward with yellow stick; every panel headed by miniature goalie-mask-and-stick badge with circled number; panels alternating red and blue; German-language lettering throughout including Spieler and Weitkampf
Six ice-hockey players skating in a diagonal drill line down the centre of a green backglass, the front man in a blue sweater with a white 6 carving forward with a yellow stick. Every panel is headed by a miniature goalie-mask-and-stick badge with a circled number, and the panels alternate red and blue. German-only lettering throughout - 1. SPIELER through 6. SPIELER, 6 MANN SPIELER, FUR 1-6 SPIELER - with no English word anywhere. Small red stacked text KUGEL IM SPIEL sits beside the front skater, and the tagline WEITKAMPF MACHT MEHR SPASS! runs along the bottom right in yellow.
Setting
- Flat pale sea-green painted field with white ice-scuff streaks
- Cream and tan wooden backbox frame
- Vertical riveted rails with round bolt heads between the panels
Symbols
- Six miniature ice-hockey goalie-mask-and-stick badges, each with a circled numeral 1 to 6
- Horizontal black score windows inside each panel
- Vertical riveted rails with round bolt heads
- Long curved wooden hockey sticks
- Black leather skating gloves
- White ice-skating scuff streaks
Lettering
- Large cream-to-yellow serif capitals with dark red outline and drop shadow for the stacked two-line title; smaller yellow sans-serif capitals for panel headers and german slogans; a red cursive script logo at top centre-left; small red condensed capitals stacked in two lines beside the front player
Themes
- Ice hockey
- Team sport
- German-language lettering
- Six-player score panels
- Sports-poster art
Title on it
- Six sticks
Text on it
- Bally
- 6 MANN SPIELER
- SIX
- STICKS
- 1. SPIELER
- 2. SPIELER
- 3. SPIELER
- 4. SPIELER
- 5. SPIELER
- 6. SPIELER
- 0195
- KUGEL
- IM SPIEL
- FÜR 1-6 SPIELER
- WEITKAMPF MACHT MEHR SPASS!
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Largest figure at lower centre: adult male in royal-blue hockey sweater with white number 6 on the chest, dark shorts, blue socks, brown leather glove, short dark hair, leaning forward in a skating stride with a yellow wooden stick held low across his body |
| Man | Directly behind: adult male in a red sweater with white sleeve stripes, dark shorts, black skates, gripping a yellow stick |
| Man | Middle of the column: adult male in a yellow-gold sweater and dark shorts, skating with a stick held across his waist |
| Man | Upper middle: adult male in a blue sweater and dark shorts, crouched low in a defensive stance with a stick flat on the ice |
| Man | Upper: adult male in an orange sweater with white trim, dark shorts, arms raised holding a stick |
| Man | Smallest, top of the column: adult male in a blue-and-white sweater, partly overlapped by the title lettering |
A flat painted backglass in a cream/tan wooden frame, hand-painted in a mid-century sports-poster style on a pale sea-green background. A tall central column of ice-hockey players runs between six score panels: three stacked on the left, three stacked on the right. The largest figure, at lower centre, is a man in a royal-blue sweater with a white number 6, dark shorts, blue socks and a brown leather glove, leaning forward in a skating stride with a yellow wooden stick held low. Behind and above him five more skaters climb in a diagonal chain: a man in a red sweater with white stripes, one in yellow-gold, one in blue crouched low, one in orange with arms raised, and a small blue-and-white skater at the very top, all gripping long curved sticks against white ice-scuff streaks. Each corner panel is a coloured rectangle - red for players 1, 2 and 6, blue for players 3 and 4, red again for player 5 - holding a strip of black digit windows and headed by a miniature ice-hockey goalie-mask badge carrying a circled number. Vertical riveted rails separate the panels.