Expert: Rodger Knutson - 4/30/2010

Question
I have a slot machine with V1337-1 254.  It is a poker machine.  I don't see a date and wonder if you could tell me the age and possibly what it is worth (what i could hope to get from it in today's market)

Thank you in advance for your time.

Answer
Hi Again CJ,

Just a note to tell you that there is now a Manual avalable for you game at:

http://jackpot7.freeyellow.com/page21.html

And Look for:

Bally Video Poker V-1000 Series Manual FO-850-9 This is for the early Bally Video Poker machines, The V-1000 Series that had 4 circuits boards in the stack, instead of the 3 board stack that the later V-2000 series have, about 55 pages.

If you need a manual, here it is.

Thank You
Rodger

Hi CJ,

Hey, thanks for sending the photo's, you just wouldn't believe how much this helps me and improves the quality of the answers I can offer. There was a reason why I also requested a photo of the inside of your machine, but we can get to the nitty gritty of it all, without them there inside photos.

The difference between the Reel slots and the Bally video slots, in the model numbers are the "V" Series is for Video and the E-series "E" for Electronic reel slots. Your is a V-1337 so this is mostly telling me that your video slot is an early V-1000 series video poker machine, so then my guess as to the year made is going to be right around 1980 to 82. The date it was manufactured might be hand stamped on the top of your model number tag as bally did this "hand stamped the date" on a lot of machines.

Now why I was asking for an inside photo, all Bally V-series video poker machines have a printed circuit board stack inside that had three boards assembled in a stack, some very early model V-1000 machines used a "four" stack M.P.U. meaning there were four boards in the stack instead of the normal three. Parts for the "four" board stack are very hard to find and these machine can have problems, as the three board stack machines are considerable more common and much easer to locate parts for. Your machine at a guess without seeing the inside, my guess would be that it's an early 4 stack V-1000 series video poker machine. If it's working fine, well then great!

Value is what your can sell it for, values are all over the place right now. I would think you could ask around $800.00 for it and probably sell it for right in that range without much problem. They can sell for $1,000.00 to as low as 500.00 for working machines like this. There a great machine, and a very fun game to play, cleaned up they also look great, well built, and operate without many problems.

If you ever want or need a manual for it, you can find one in a few days (as the webmaster hasn't scanned it yet, but it's in the works) and will be located at: http://jackpot7.freeyellow.com/page21.html

I hope this has answered all you questions on this machine, and CJ thanks for sending the photo's.

Sincerely........

Rodger Knutson
http://www.coinslots.com