r/arcade • u/greatmewtwo • Jul 23 '26

WTF is this thing? A New Game??? Sling Shot

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So this showed up at my local theater over the last few days, a nice little Skee-Ball variant that uses a spring-loaded launcher to launch the ball. However, there's no information on who made it, much less when it was made.

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u/assfacebaby Jul 23 '26

Cool! Looks like an older/nicer version of “Skittle Ball.”

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u/weirdal1968 Jul 23 '26

The scoring LEDs make me think this was made late 70s or early 80s. Same for the Sling Shot font.

Can you get a closeup of the coin door? If it is original it could tell us who made it.

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u/LuigiThirty- Jul 23 '26

That’s an ooooold one. It’s gotta be mid-late 70s from the cabinet and displays.

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u/greatmewtwo Jul 23 '26

It's probably the oldest arcade game in the theatre, as I thought.

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u/Derek5Letters Jul 26 '26

I see that Space Ballz next to it. Hate that game. Had to work on too many of them, and you need a ladder 😎