Bristol Hills

This is a limited release add-a-ball version of 2-player Snow Derby, with special backglass art, produced for sale in upstate New York. Bristol Mountain is a ski area about 50 miles from where I lived at that time. The add-a-balls were score-based, not game feature-based.

Scoring on this game is extremely weighted towards the last-two-balls. Balls 1, 2 and 3 are single bonus, i.e. 50 points per lap; ball 4 is 100 double at per lap; ball 5 is at 200 per lap. Maximum number of laps is 15, so maximum bonus is 750 on balls 1-3, 1500 on ball 4 and 3000 on ball 5. The top saucers add one lit saucer each ball; lit saucers are worth 50 points. Other than bonus, this is where the next largest source of your points will come from. If you can, you want to get into a “ball in lit saucer kicks out and bounces back off a bumper into a lit saucer” rhythm on balls 4 and 5 in particular. You’ll find that most of your score is on balls 4 and 5.

Getting the ball to exit out the right side lane in the middle of the machine, where it goes back to the plunger lane, is desirable whenever you can do it.