Bally : Surf Club

Game Parameters
Game Type	one-card
Game Number	556
Manufacture Date	1954
Number of Holes	25
Number of Odds Steps	8
Max Payout	300
Max Extra Balls	3
Features	advancing odds/scores corners scoring extra balls hold/double hold in-line scoring roll-over buttons select-a-spot super cards super line

Resources

Backglass
- chris dade image
- bg 1
- bg 2
- bg 3

Cabinet
- front
- game
- head
- side

Flyers
- fly 1

Internals
- back door
- inside cabinet
- inside head
- lamp panel
- playfield bottom
- reflex unit

Game Manual
- manual (pdf) : 10.91MB
- unoptimized manual (pdf) : 75.52MB

Mixer Diagrams
- mixer 1: mixer mixer 1
- mixer 1: mixer mixer 1 (svg file)
- mixer 2: mixer mixer 2
- mixer 2: mixer mixer 2 (svg file)
- mixer 3: mixer mixer 3
- mixer 3: mixer mixer 3 (svg file)
- mixer 4: mixer mixer 4
- mixer 4: mixer mixer 4 (svg file)

Press Image
- mp 1

Playfield
- pf 1
- pf 2
- pf 3
- pf 4
- pf 5

Reflex Diagrams
- main
- main (svg file)

Service Bulletin
- hold cycles

Schematic
- schematic : 4.28MB

S/I Card Reproduction
- sirepro 1

S/I Card Scan
- siscan 1
- siscan 2
- siscan 3

Timing Diagrams
- timing 1
- timing 2

Surf Club

How to improve on the hold feature introduced on Palm Springs? Simple, let them do it twice and call it double-hold. Surf Club did just that, and combined other features of previous games to make what IMHO is the best bingo that did not allow you to rearrange the numbers/scoring sections (ok, fine, so it's in the middle of the pack, but at the top of it's category).

Returning the scoring to normal after Ice Frolics, Surf Club threw in a super-line that could be chosen instead of spotting numbers on the main card. 2-in-line on the superline scored 4-in-line, and 3-in-line scored 5-in-line.

This time, the roll-over buttons activated the supercards.

one-card games

The game has one main card, usually a 5x5 grid of numbers.

Usually, at least three numbers next to each other on either a horizontal, vertical, or the main 5 number diagonals are required to win.

There were, however, a few variations that occured over the years. The dimensions of the card, 2-in-line winners, and winning on the other diagonal combinations were all features that were used.

Another common feature was corners scoring.

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