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  1. By Flipcommons Catalog

    Theme read off the game's name and subject.

    theme
    Theme
    Flower Power
  2. By Flipcommons AI Descriptions (MachineModel)
    description
    *Hippie* is [[manufacturer:dama]]'s 1970 reworking of [[manufacturer:bally]]'s 1966 *[[model:capersville]]*, one of the [[location:italy/mi/milan]] firm's [[technology-generation:electromechanical]] pinball *conversion kits*. The donor was an unlikely candidate for flower-power artwork: *Capersville* was a Cold War [[theme:spy-adventure]] caper, designed by Ted Zale and illustrated by Jerry Kelley, and it outsold every other Bally table of its decade.[1] It was a landmark of the form as well as a hit — the first game to offer three-ball multiball play[2] — and an early showcase for Bally's zipper flippers, which could snap together to close the gap between them and keep the ball alive.[3] Onto that mechanism Dama grafted an entirely new subject, swapping espionage for the [[theme:flower-power]] counterculture of its own moment.
    1.
    Seattle Pinball Museum — https://seattlepinballmuseum.com/capersville
    Designed by Ted Zale, known as the "King of Pinball," and illustrated by Jerry Kelley, this game captured the thrilling essence of mid-20th-century espionage. [...] Capersville was a resounding success, becoming Bally's best-selling machine of the 1960s and maintaining that position until the early 1970s.
    2.
    Museum of the Game (Arcade Museum) — https://www.arcade-museum.com/Pinball/capersville
    The Capersville by Bally was the first pinball machine that allowed a 3-ball multiball sequence.
    3.
    Seattle Pinball Museum — https://seattlepinballmuseum.com/capersville
    The machine's standout feature was its "zipper flippers," a groundbreaking innovation that allowed the flippers to move closer together, preventing center drains and extending gameplay.
  3. By Flipcommons Catalog
    credit
    Person
    Cortez
    Role
    Art
    TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/dama
    Hippie (Bally "Capersville") (grafica di Cortez)
  4. By Flipcommons Catalog
    model_relationship
    Target machine
    Capersville (Bally 1966)
    Relationship type
    Conversion kit
    License status
    Unknown
    TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/dama
    Hippie (Bally "Capersville") (grafica di Cortez)
  5. By Flipcommons Catalog

    tilt.it marks the 1970 year uncertain ("(?)"); lineage per the source line: Conversion/retheme of Bally's 1966 'Capersville' (ipdb 431; catalog capersville); artwork by Cortez; sold as a conversion kit.

    corporate_entity
    Dama S.R.L.
    TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/dama
    Hippie (Bally "Capersville") (grafica di Cortez)
    game_format
    Pinball
    TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/dama
    Hippie (Bally "Capersville") (grafica di Cortez)
    name
    Hippie
    TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/dama
    Hippie (Bally "Capersville") (grafica di Cortez)
    slug
    hippie
    status
    active
    technology_generation
    Electromechanical
    TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/dama
    Hippie (Bally "Capersville") (grafica di Cortez)
    title
    Hippie
    TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/dama
    Hippie (Bally "Capersville") (grafica di Cortez)
    year
    1970
    TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/dama
    Hippie (Bally "Capersville") (grafica di Cortez)