by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Originally, machines were all single-player games. It was one player at a time. But starting in 1954, Gottlieb came up with the idea to have two or even four people playing at a time. Player one would play ball one, then player two would play ball one. Then player one...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Gottlieb was really good at card themes. They were known for that. Card games like poker, you’re trying to get different hands, a royal flush, they used that name a bunch of times—Card Whiz, Royal Flush, Pop-a-Card. . In the 1950s, Gottlieb would run a machine for...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Bally was the first company to do that. They were the first company to get an official licensed theme. During the 1950s, Gottlieb had done some unlicensed themes. They had a game called Guy’s Dolls, and it just happened to come out at the same time as the Broadway...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
Yes, they had preferred artists. During the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, artwork wasn’t always created in house. Williams or another company would design a game, and then they would hand the game over to another company that just did art. This second company had their own...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
During the 1930s, there were literally hundreds of companies making pinball machines. After World War II, though, there was only a handful. The key players were Gottlieb—the biggest, and pretty much the Cadillac of pinball—and Williams, which was substantially smaller...
by Andrew MacBain | May 27, 2020 | Collector's Corner, Micro Pinball, Pinball Buzz, Pinball Canada, Pinball History, Pinball News, Pinball Record
It was a game that morphed from the French game of bagatelle. In the 1930s, it really exploded as a gambling thing, and that’s where pinball got this gambling association. Coming out of World War II, the gambling laws were changing in the United States. In particular,...
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