Bally (pinball machine)

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Bally Technologies, Inc.

logo
legal form Corporation
founding 1968
Seat Las Vegas , Nevada
management
  • Richard Haddrill (CEO and Director)
  • Ramesh Srinivasan (President and COO)
sales 758.2 million US dollars (2010/11)
Website www.ballytech.com

Bally (originally Bally Manufacturing Corporation , now Bally Technologies, Inc. ) is an American company that makes one -armed bandits , game consoles, and arcade games . The company was founded by Raymond Moloney in Chicago in 1932 and has a complex history of restructuring, takeovers and divisions of the company. The company's roots are in the manufacture of pinball machines and slot machines . Most of the slot machines in Las Vegas casinos are still from Bally today.

In 1976 the game console Bally Astrocade was developed. In 1992, Bally manufactured The Addams Family , the best-selling pinball machine to date with over 20,000 copies , but already under the leadership of market leader and competitor Williams Electronics Games , who took over Bally in 1988. Previously, Bally did pioneering work by building the Xenon, one of the first pinball machines with a ramp and voice output, in 1980. In 1991, Bally was one of the first pinball manufacturers to equip a pinball machine ( Gilligans Island ) with a dot matrix display and a multifunctional ramp.

In 2013 SHFL Entertainment was bought. Bally has been part of Scientific Games since 2014 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Bally Technologies: Bally Technologies, Inc. Reports Fiscal 2011 Results (English)
  2. Richard N. Velotta: Bally says $ 1.3 trillion acquisition of SHFL entertainment good for growth - VEGAS INC. July 16, 2013, accessed February 3, 2019 .