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. It's 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 areas score 1000, 2000 or 3000 points. When a scoring area is hit, all the balls in that row release and pop. Also has an option for double score in the fifth and/or tenth frame.

There was another version called CCM Las Vegas shuffle alley 1972 that used a shuffle alley surface to pop the balls. Instead of a control panel like Fascination, the player throws a shuffle puck down the lane, effectively pressing the ball popping button desired. 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. 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 those may be 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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