I just ran across a bit of an anomaly about this game. In the interest of setting the historical record straight, I figured who better to bring it up with than my good pals (and blooming experts on the subject) over here?
In short (and it won't be...it gets complicated) I was playing around with redswals vp rec when I noticed that the glass on his table was different than that in the flyer that he has pictured next to the table.
Were there two different glasses made? Was one a prototype and one production? Did he just alter his glass for some reason?
Out of curiosity I went to the ipdb.
Turns out there were two games made, Reserve and Reserve Jr. Of that bit of information I've little doubt, since they give two solid model numbers (I hardly think they made them up!).
Unfortunately, the only thing they have on file for Jr. is a picture of a flyer.
They've plenty of stuff for (what we'll call) Sr., however, and that's where the funny business comes in. About half of the pics they have match one of the glasses and the other half match the other! All that would indicate that at some point in time the glasses just changed (for whatever reason), except...
They also have a flyer (the same one that's on redswal's game) which, it turns out, matches EXACTLY the one they show for Jr.! Not quite the same flyer, mind you, but the exact same picture (and obviously that same particular glass) and (most tellingly of all) the same price! If nothing else, wouldn't a "Jr." game be CHEAPER than a "Sr?"
What's more, there's absolutely nothing I can see in the flyer under Jr. that actually labels it as such, or would serve to differentiate it in any way from the other game. (The only real difference between the two flyers is that the one used for Sr. only advertises the novelty game, whereas the one in Jr. also mentions the freeplay version, admittedly at a different price, so there's always the possibility that THAT'S the difference between the two games...but not necessarily. Bally could have added a freeplay version of either later on, they could have had separate flyers for each at one time, etc.)
Aside from the above (parenthesized) possibility, it's also possible that the flyer under Jr. has no business being there since it's actually a flyer for Sr., and that it's those two glasses which made the actual difference (one of them, therefore...evidently the one redswal used, since it's the one not pictured in the flyers...being Jr.).
Or any other combination of all of the above.
In the interests of historical accuracy (since tracking the history of the machines...not to mention the machines themselves...down is complicated enough as it is!), does anyone out there know the straight dope on this?
In short (and it won't be...it gets complicated) I was playing around with redswals vp rec when I noticed that the glass on his table was different than that in the flyer that he has pictured next to the table.
Were there two different glasses made? Was one a prototype and one production? Did he just alter his glass for some reason?
Out of curiosity I went to the ipdb.
Turns out there were two games made, Reserve and Reserve Jr. Of that bit of information I've little doubt, since they give two solid model numbers (I hardly think they made them up!).
Unfortunately, the only thing they have on file for Jr. is a picture of a flyer.
They've plenty of stuff for (what we'll call) Sr., however, and that's where the funny business comes in. About half of the pics they have match one of the glasses and the other half match the other! All that would indicate that at some point in time the glasses just changed (for whatever reason), except...
They also have a flyer (the same one that's on redswal's game) which, it turns out, matches EXACTLY the one they show for Jr.! Not quite the same flyer, mind you, but the exact same picture (and obviously that same particular glass) and (most tellingly of all) the same price! If nothing else, wouldn't a "Jr." game be CHEAPER than a "Sr?"
What's more, there's absolutely nothing I can see in the flyer under Jr. that actually labels it as such, or would serve to differentiate it in any way from the other game. (The only real difference between the two flyers is that the one used for Sr. only advertises the novelty game, whereas the one in Jr. also mentions the freeplay version, admittedly at a different price, so there's always the possibility that THAT'S the difference between the two games...but not necessarily. Bally could have added a freeplay version of either later on, they could have had separate flyers for each at one time, etc.)
Aside from the above (parenthesized) possibility, it's also possible that the flyer under Jr. has no business being there since it's actually a flyer for Sr., and that it's those two glasses which made the actual difference (one of them, therefore...evidently the one redswal used, since it's the one not pictured in the flyers...being Jr.).
Or any other combination of all of the above.
In the interests of historical accuracy (since tracking the history of the machines...not to mention the machines themselves...down is complicated enough as it is!), does anyone out there know the straight dope on this?