Blue Ribbon

Description

Blue Ribbon is an early non-flipper pinball game with an auto race theme. The targets are speedster type race cars with metal exhaust pipes. The bumper on the front of the game is chrome and is a stylized 1934 ford grill. The cabinet is blue with wooden legs and there is a chrome Blue Ribbon logo on each side. Note: The Internet Pinball Database, in addition to this entry, also has an entry 3826 for a Blue Ribbon by Bally made in 1939 Model 308. However, neither they nor we have any information on this machine at this time. As such, we are not currently maintaining a separate entry for it.

Blue Ribbon was produced by Bally Manufacturing Co. in 1933.

Bally Manufacturing Co. released 867 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1930. Bally Manufacturing Co. was based in United States.

Other machines made by Bally Manufacturing Co. during the time period Blue Ribbon was produced include: Goofy (Senior), Big Chief, Goofy (Junior), Ballyround, Greyhound, Airway, Balrickey, Bosco, Cub, and Dicette

Specs

Name	Blue Ribbon
Developer	Bally Manufacturing Co. (United States)
Year	1933
Type	Pinball
KLOV/MOG #	1083
Sub-Type	Mechanical
Class	Wide Release
# Maximum Players	1

Blue Ribbon KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Blue Ribbon Census

There are 14,778 members of the Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,484 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,627 machines (6,906 unique titles).

Owned - There is one known instance of this machine owned by an active member Blue Ribbon collector. It is an original dedicated machine (not another machine converted with a kit).

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

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Foto-Finder® (Books)

Encyclopedia of Pinball, Volume 1 Bueschel (ISBN 1889933015) Page: 127; Black and white photo
Encyclopedia of Pinball, Volume 1 Bueschel (ISBN 1889933015) Page: 161; Black and white photo

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