This is a total long shot, I'm looking to identify a game at Balsam Lake Cottages around 20 years ago.  My family used to go to these cottages and they had a games building which had an EM pinball in it.  It was the first pinball game I remember playing but have no idea the title.

Here's all I can remember:
-  A bunch of lights down the center like my Bally Big Show.  You would get the bonus to move the lights up, once to the top another light would make it's way up the playfield.
-  It had a distinctive slow mechanical sound when it counted down the bonuses, also the same as my Big Show.

After looking through the entire EM database on IPDB I think it's Bally Sky Kings, but would love a confirmation.  I emailed the resort but they didn't respond.

I have a Sky Kings. It does what you describe, sorta.

Your description is quite vague as pretty much all Em pins with bonus points had the same feature.

Any more description of the theme? Any images you remember seeing on the playfield or backglass? Anything else distinctive of the playfield? Drop targets?

Sadly I don't remember too much else about the machine, was hoping someone on here would have gone to the same place.  I kinda remember something like hitting the balls on the left/right sides which in turn would hit a target.  Are there any other em games similar to this style?

Bally Champ is the same playfield layout as Sky Kings and has the captive balls on each side of the playfield.

Bally Flicker or Boomerang are the only ones I see that could also fit the description.