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Contributors to this record: Flipcommons AI Descriptions (GameplayFeature), Flipcommons Catalog.
- description
- Flipcommons AI Descriptions (GameplayFeature)Holes in the playfield surface that the ball drops into, registering a score or triggering a game event. Found primarily on mid-era machines, drop holes function similarly to [[gameplay-feature:kick-out-holes]] and [[gameplay-feature:sinkholes]] but may lack a kicker mechanism to return the ball, instead relying on gravity or trap-door mechanisms. Some variants, listed in IPDB records as trap-door drop holes, use a hinged cover that opens to accept the ball and closes afterward. Drop holes appear on machines like *[[title:starfighter]]* (1980), which featured seven of them across the playfield, creating a Swiss-cheese landscape of ball-swallowing hazards.
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- Drop holeFlipcommons Catalog
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- Drop HolesFlipcommons Catalog
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- drop-holesFlipcommons Catalog