Centaur

Centaur is a pinball machine designed by Jim Patla and produced by Bally. The game was inspired by the classic Bally's 1956 Balls-A-Poppin that was the first flipper pinball machine with multiball. Because of its success, the pinball machine was re-released in 1983 as Centaur II. The re-release has only a different backbox but was otherwise unchanged.

The artwork of Centaur features a black and white horror design with flashing red and yellow lights. The ultimate goal of the pinball machine is to destroy centaur - a half-man half-motorcycle creature.

Reasons for the success of the game include its well made sound effects including speech, 5-balls multiball, a playfield magnet and fast but fair gameplay.

Centaur is available as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for several platforms.