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Gottlieb's Humpty Dumpty is an electromechanical pinball machine released in 1947 and designed by Harry Mabs. It is recognized as the first commercially produced pinball game with player-controlled flippers, using six inward-facing flippers distributed around the playfield rather than the two-flippe...
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Historically crucial first flipper machine, highly respected as a milestone, though actual gameplay is primitive today.
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Cue Ball Wizard is a solid-state pinball machine released by Gottlieb in December 1992. Designed by Jon Norris, it uses a billiards theme and presents the player with a green-felt-style playfield, cue-ball imagery, and table-inspired targets and mechanisms. The machine is aimed at pinball players in...
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Inventive oversized cue ball, satisfying bank shots, strong flow, and approachable rules make it a well-regarded late Gottlieb table.
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Haunted House is a solid-state pinball machine released by Gottlieb in 1982. It is notable for being the first commercial pinball machine to feature three separate playfield levels, with an elevated upper playfield and a lower playfield accessible beneath the main surface. The machine was designed b...
TX-Sector is a solid state pinball machine released by Gottlieb in 1988. Its original science fiction theme presents a futuristic transport experiment, with playfield artwork, electronic sounds, ramps, targets, and multiball contributing to the setting. The machine belongs to Gottlieb's late 1980s S...
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Cult-favorite Gottlieb sci-fi game with unusual teleport feature and strong flow, though still niche in wider rankings.
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Black Hole is an arcade pinball machine released by Gottlieb in 1981, notable for its mechanical design and adoption of solid-state technology. Designed by John Buras, the game's defining feature is a lower, sunken playfield visible through a window in the main table, equipped with upward-facing fli...
Flipper Football is a soccer-themed solid-state pinball machine released by Capcom in 1996. The machine uses a dot-matrix display and supports up to six players, placing football imagery and scoring objectives within a conventional pinball format. It was produced during Capcom’s short period as a pi...
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Fast shots, powerful hardware, and a distinctive football layout earn appreciation; sparse production, modest rules, and limited polish constrain reputation.
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Tee’d Off is a golf-themed solid-state pinball machine manufactured by Gottlieb in 1993. Its design is credited to Ray Tanzer and Jon Norris, and the table uses a dot-matrix display, golf-hole objectives, and a comic gopher character named Gunther that reacts during play. The machine is intended for...
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Humorous gopher, approachable golf objectives, and decent flow attract casual players; repetitive callouts and derivative design weaken enthusiast standing.
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Gottlieb Lights...Camera...Action! is a solid-state pinball machine released by Gottlieb in 1989. Its theme draws on Hollywood filmmaking, using movie production and studio imagery as the setting for the table's artwork and rules. Like other pinball machines, it is a coin-operated arcade game in whi...
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Recognizable Hollywood theme and decent late-Gottlieb play, but modest depth and middling collector demand.
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Gottlieb Deadworld is described as a 1992 pinball machine connected with the Judge Dredd comic-book storyline Deadworld. The reported theme uses undead figures and dark comic-book imagery, placing the title within the licensed comic and horror-oriented pinball category. Because the machine's product...
Gottlieb Gladiators is a licensed pinball machine released by Gottlieb in 1993 and themed around the American Gladiators television competition series. It belongs to the early 1990s generation of solid-state machines and uses a dot-matrix display for scores and game information. The title is relevan...
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Playable Gottlieb with energetic theme, but generally remembered as serviceable rather than distinctive or deep.
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Gottlieb Bone Busters Inc. is a 1989 pinball machine with a ghost-hunting theme and cartoon-style artwork. The table was produced during the period when Premier Technology operated the Gottlieb brand. Its subject matter combines supernatural imagery with humorous presentation rather than using a lic...
Gottlieb Super Mario Bros. is a 1992 pinball machine licensed from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. video-game franchise. The table incorporates characters, enemies, and visual elements associated with the game series into a pinball setting. It is a solid-state machine with a dot-matrix display and belo...
Gottlieb Waterworld is a pinball machine released in 1995 and licensed from the science-fiction film Waterworld, which starred Kevin Costner. The machine belongs to the 1990s era of solid-state pinball and uses the film’s post-apocalyptic setting as its central theme. It is an example of a licensed...
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Some fans appreciate the crane and theme toys, but weak film association and average Gottlieb execution limit reputation.
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Gottlieb El Dorado: City of Gold is a solid-state pinball machine released by Gottlieb in 1984. Its theme draws on the legend of El Dorado, the mythical South American city of gold sought by Spanish conquistadors, and its artwork and objectives use adventure imagery associated with that story. The m...
Gottlieb Cue Ball Wizard is a dot-matrix pinball machine released by Gottlieb in 1992 with a billiards theme. Its playfield includes a mechanical pool-cue arm toy, and the rules involve shooting for color-coded pool-ball targets and completing related objectives. The machine is aimed at players and...
Gottlieb Tee'd Off is a dot-matrix pinball machine released by Gottlieb in 1993 with a golf theme. The game uses miniature golf-course elements and awards progress through objectives based on completing holes, translating parts of the sport into pinball targets and shots. It is intended for players...
Q*Bert's Quest is a solid-state pinball machine released by Gottlieb in 1983. It is based on Q*Bert, the arcade video game developed and released by Gottlieb in 1982, and adapts that property's characters and visual identity to a pinball table. The machine is of interest to arcade and pinball collec...
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Historically curious arcade crossover with unique layout, but difficult gameplay and limited appeal keep ratings modest.
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Released in 1981, Caveman is an innovative pinball game that integrates an interactive video screen into the playfield to create a distinct hybrid arcade gaming experience.
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Historically fascinating video-pinball hybrid with major novelty value, but crude video gameplay, reliability problems, and weak integration limit quality assessments.
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Gottlieb Genesis is a 1986 solid-state pinball machine produced during the period when Premier Technology operated under the Gottlieb name. Its theme concerns cosmic creation and outer space, giving the game a science-fiction setting rather than adapting an existing film or board game. As a solid-st...
Gottlieb's Caveman, released in 1981, is historically notable as the first production pinball machine to integrate a built-in video game display.
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Important video-pinball hybrid milestone, but consensus views the experiment as clunky and less satisfying to play.
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Gottlieb Spring Break is a solid-state pinball machine released in 1987 under the Gottlieb brand during the period when the company was operated by Premier Technology. Its theme uses a college beach-party setting, with bright summer artwork and a lighthearted novelty presentation. The machine belong...
Gottlieb's Barb Wire is a licensed 1996 solid-state pinball machine based on the film Barb Wire, which starred Pamela Anderson. It uses Gottlieb System 3 hardware, a dot-matrix display, and supports up to four players; the production run was 1,000 machines. Released under the Gottlieb name by Premie...
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Late Gottlieb rarity tied to poorly received film; community reputation is weak despite collector curiosity.
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