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Viking
Viking
BALLY

Viking

1979
★7.6(52 reviews)
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Unlike other Bally electronic pinball games, their documentation for this game shows the model number only as 1198, not 1198-E. At the 2004 Texas Pinball Festival, O'Connor stated he designed the artwork for this game, delivered to him as a whitewood, because he was reading Frans Gunner Bengtsson's "The Long Ships" at the time. The backglass is O'Connor's vision of King Harald's Christmas feast. The character in green (with a beard) to the left of the fighters is a self-portrait by Kevin. Brook Shields (popular at the time) is drawn as a background character on the right.

IMAGES

Image # 3914: Viking Flyer, Front
Image # 3915: Viking Flyer, Page 2
Image # 3916: Viking Flyer, Page 3
Image # 3917: Viking Flyer, Back
Image # 10577: Viking Machine
Image # 13516: Viking Backglass Detail
Image # 14415: Viking Blank Playfield
Image # 16383: Viking Playfield Detail 1
Image # 16384: Viking Playfield Detail 2
Image # 16385: Viking Playfield Detail 3
Image # 16386: Viking Playfield Detail 4
Image # 16387: Viking Playfield Detail 5
Image # 16388: Viking Playfield Detail 6
Image # 16603: Viking Playfield
Image # 16663: Viking Illuminated Machine
Image # 16664: Viking Illuminated Backbox
Image # 16665: Viking Illuminated Playfield
Image # 30493: Viking Backglass - Detail
Image # 48602: Viking Backglass 
(Serial number EVI 1360.)
Image # 48603: Viking Backbox - Left 
(Serial number EVI 1360.)
Image # 48604: Viking Cabinet - Left 
(Serial number EVI 1360.)
Image # 66985: Viking Backglass
Image # 66986: Viking Illuminated Backglass
Image # 66987: Viking Upper Playfield 
(The spinning target is not original to this game. The manufacturer used white rubbers, not black as seen here.)
Image # 66988: Viking Lower Playfield 
(The manufacturer used white rubbers, not black as seen here.)
Image # 66989: Viking French Instruction Card
Image # 66990: Viking Backbox - Left
Image # 66991: Viking Cabinet - Left
Image # 66992: Viking Cabinet - Front
Image # 66993: Viking Cabinet - Front View 
(The spinning target is not original to this game. The manufacturer used white rubbers, not black as seen here.)
Image # 66994: Viking Cabinet - Full View 
(The spinning target is not original to this game. The manufacturer used white rubbers, not black as seen here.)

Images via IPDB.org

Pinside ID527
Manufactured ByBally Manufacturing Co.
DateDecember 1979
TypeSS
IPDB ID2737
Players4

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Shoot the inline drops. Then shoot the R "orbit" for collect bonus. Shoot the target near the inline drops when you hear the siren.
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2
Shooting the right orbit lights the upper left saucer for Collect Bonus. This collects the multiplied value and does not reset it!
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If your ball goes in an outlane, nudge it LIGHTLY to bounce it back in play; otherwise you'll tilt.

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Shooting the spinner adds bonus and boosts the spinner value temporarily.