I Rang The Bell

[cleusk]

Here's the reward you got if you won a certain midway game at Six Flags.

[Twistedmister]

The game was called "Wildcatters Ladder" and it was right across from Dry-Hole Charlies in Boomtown.

[Thomas Geyer]

It was called "High Striker." I worked it when it opened in April 1978.
A dude by the name of Rich Holmboe, who traveled around the country working carnivals, had a portable one we took around to different locations in the park. The permanent one had four sides and was placed near the Shock Wave. Before those buttons, we gave out big cigars to anyone who rang the bell. Games such as the high striker have been around a long, long, time. In fact, that's where the old saying "close but no cigar" comes from.
Thomas Geyer 76-80. Games and Attractions.

[Twistedmister]

Originally Posted by Thomas Geyer

It was called "High Striker." I worked it when it opened in April 1978.
A dude by the name of Rich Holmboe, who traveled around the country working carnivals, had a portable one we took around to different locations in the park. The permanent one had four sides and was placed near the Shock Wave. Before those buttons, we gave out big cigars to anyone who rang the bell. Games such as the high striker have been around a long, long, time. In fact, that's where the old saying "close but no cigar" comes from.
Thomas Geyer 76-80. Games and Attractions.

Doh! Absolutely correct! I was thinking of the button you got on the ladder game, the one where you had to carefully balance to make it over to the bell (it was located in Boomtown". The High Striker I recall was the one near Shockwave

[James Bilardi]

Does anybody remember all of the bloody heads from the sledge hammer bouncing back up and nailing the guest? Jeff Farrar and I took turns racing to the skeeball palace in the summer of 1978 to call the park ambulance.