Description: Fascination, Chicago Coin, 1972. It's a ball pop game with a 5x5 field in the game, where balls pop up, bounce around, and land in the playfield holes. A coin operated version of the Coney Island multiplayer parlor Fascination game. Like bingo, you try to get 3,4,5 vertical or horizontal lines, or four coners, or diagonal for the most points. Because of this, dozens of potential scoring combinations are possible. Game is adjustable for five or ten frame play. Any of the five target columns score 1000, 2000 or 3000 points (center column highest scoring), which can be "popped" if no 3-in-a-line (or higher scoring) is achieved. Alternatively, the user can hit the "all balls" scoring button, which will give 1000 points, and pop all the balls. When a scoring column button is pressed, all the balls in that column release (pop.) Also has an option for double score once in a five frame game, or once or twice in a ten frame game (operator adjustable.)

There was another version of Fascination called CCM Las Vegas Shuffle Alley 1972, that used a shuffle alley surface to pop the balls. Instead of a control panel with buttons like Fascination, the player throws a shuffle puck down the lane, effectively pressing the ball popping button desired with the thrown puck. The backbox is identical for both Fascination and Las Vegas. Obviously Fascination is more space conservative, where Las Vegas has a larger footprint (since it's a shuffle alley.) But you could swap the Fascination control panel for the Las Vegas alley, and it would work in either game - the plug controls appear to be the same for the control panel vs the alley. Note that Fascination also has a front kick out area at the base, to give the backbox more vertical stability. Both games are model #416 and share the same schematic and parts manual.

CCM Fascination (and CCM Las Vegas) use seven rubber balls which are larger than 2" diameter. Note racketballs are 2.25" diameter, so they work as a good replacement. Two inch balls are too small, as the ball hole in the ball popping playfield is 2.1" diameter.

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