Fleet (Bally, 1934)

Admiral on the bridge!

Fleet is a difficult flipperless game from Bally, 1934. This is a the jr version; the sr version was a bit larger with the same gameplay except for additional rails on the side.

Featuring powered solenoids, the goal is to load the bottom cannons (only the bottom cannons are reachable by the player). When a ball is then shot into the action hole, the cannons fire and launch the balls to the next higher cannon. Launch the balls high enough to enter the large center cannon into the shell hole worth 3000 points.

As an additional incentive, balls shot into the action hole (or repeater hole) return for free play, and any balls in the bottom out hole are also returned for free play when the action hole is hit.

Balls in the repeater are worth 500 points; if the repeater cannon is shot, the 500 points are lost but the ball is returned for free play. Scoring is always live: your score may go down as balls are fired, but hopefully for higher points. It's possible to dislodge balls, so aim and nudge carefully!

There is 1 tilt warning per game. If tilted, the score will not count towards a high score. The 3rd screen DMD counts balls that made it to the shell hole. Of course, games of this era did not have a backglass/DMD. I added a few DOF effects for fun.