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- Backbox
- The vertical "head" of the pinball machine, where the score is displayed.
- Ball Saver
- See Autosave
- Bank
- See Drop Target.
- Bumper
- An upright, typically cylindrical or rectangular area, that applies force to the ball when hit. The cylindrical variety is referred to as a mushroom bumper, when capped with a circular top, which usually lights up to show the points scored, when the bumper is hit.
- When flippers were introduced on Humpty Dumpty, they were referred to as "flipper bumpers"; this use is no longer live and "bumpers" never refers to "flippers".
- Active bumpers are referred to as "jet bumpers" by WMS Industries and Midway Games (after the 1988 Williams-Midway merger), "pop bumpers" by Gottlieb, "thumper bumpers" by Bally Technologies (before the 1988 Williams-Midway merger) and "turbo bumpers" by Data East.
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