Description

Paragon

Paragon: Come check out this pinball with a fantasy theme made by the pinball company Bally at Vintage Arcade Superstore today!

The following is from the International Pinball Database:

Description

Manufacturer:	Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally]
Project Date:	December 05, 1978
Date Of Manufacture:	June, 1979
Model Number:	1167-E
MPU:	Bally MPU AS-2518-35
Type:	Solid State Electronic (SS)
Production:	9,120 units   (confirmed)
Serial Number Database:	View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net)  (External site)
Theme:	Fantasy
Specialty:	Widebody
Notable Features:	Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (4), Slingshots (2), 4-in-line drop targets (1), 3-bank drop targets (1), Kick-out holes (3), Standup targets (2), Star rollovers (4), Spinning target (1), Upper right chicane lane awards lit features.
Design by:	Greg Kmiec
Art by:	Paul Faris

Notes:

‘Paragon’ is the first widebody production game from this manufacturer.

According to Designer Greg Kmiec:

It has come to my attention that the song was indeed “The Worm.” Every ball in the saucer added one note to the tune. Paragon was Bally’s first wide-body. You might be able to recognize features from different games in the layout: the Capt. Fantastic bottom flippers, the Old Chicago bottom thumper bumper on the left, the Knockout Wiggler channel on the right (the across-the-playfield feed into the Knockout Wiggler lane was an homage to Ted Zale), the Harlem Globetrotters in-line drop targets on the left side feeding a reverse Capt. Fantastic across -the-playfield drop target shot and the top two saucers similar to Wizard.

An earlier game that builds a song tune note by note is Bally’s 1978 ‘Playboy’.

Reportedly, all Paragon games in France have only 3 flippers.

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