Gottlieb

Centigrade 37

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This game received 99 approved Pinsider ratings and currently rates 8.331 _/10

8.331

Top 100 ranking

This game ranks #23 in the Pinside EM Top 100.

Score breakdown

Score breakdown in the 4 main categories:

Game Design: 8.224

Artwork: 8.818

Sounds/Music: 2.834

Other Aspects: 8.254

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8.005

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8.089/10

5 months ago

CS

ChipS

Pinside+ Frequent

Sykesville, MD

6y 48,300 380 4 7

This is one of the most beautiful games Gottlieb ever produced. The backglass and playfield art are simply incredibly! Gordon Morrison truly outdid himself with this one.

But while it is the best looker of the mid-to-late 1970's era of Gottlieb, it is not the best player. The bagatelle lanes on the right side are copied from Atlantis (which copied them from "Sheriff"). IMO they work better as the sequence advancer in Atlantis than they do as a temperature advancer here. Same with the standup targets on the right side. On the left side of the playfield, there are just 4 drop targets and one rollover lane. (As opposed to 10 drop targets and a 5,000 point payout for hitting two adjacent targets.) So there's not much you can hit with the right flipper. In my opinion, Atlantis did a lot more with a very similar playfield layout, and is the superior game.

Only 1,600 of them were made, so it is hard to find. I've had the chance to buy it a couple of times, but just can't pull the trigger. I already own Atlantis. Do I really want two games that are that similar? If I was just going to turn it on and look at it, then maybe yes. But not for the price that people are asking for it.

8.716/10

9 months ago

MDA

Mark_Arts

Pinside member

St. Thomas, ON

1y 22,400 41 8 9

The theme and the artwork drew me in and the gameplay keeps me coming back. There's a reason a lot of people want thus game!

Mark_Arts currently owns this game.

8.274/10

10 months ago

SIL

Skunk

Pinside member

Saint Paul, MN

<1y 12,750 9 7

I expected more, some em machines play better than centgrade. Nice machine but its definitely not worth current market values.

But its a prized machine for many

10.000/10

1 year ago

RMG

Flash71

Pinside+ Frequent

Lewiston, NY

5y 98,550 1,396 19 26 3

I finally added a completely restored C37 to my collection and it did not disappoint. I really can’t find one bad thing to write about the game. One of the best looking EM’s out there. Extremely fun to shoot and work towards raising the temperature ribbon. Many said the D left outer orbit is all luck but I can hit it pretty consistently from the right flipper. Tough shot but very satisfying. This game is a solid 10/10 for me. I’m absolutely loving it as my first EM. Definitely not my last.

Flash71 edited previous rating on April 25, 2023.
Flash71 currently owns this game.

9.860/10

1 year ago

VAB

PinnMann

Pinside member

Ottawa, ON

4y 28,400 2 12 16

Recently picked up a C37, was looking for this title for 6 years, a game that does not become available very often so I was lucky to get this game considering. After playing this game daily since owning it I could honestly say it was worth the wait. The right side bagatelle lanes is where all the points are, get the A,B,C,D put the ball in play there and watch the points rack up, this game will be staying in my collection for a very long time.

PinnMann currently owns this game.

8.482/10

1 year ago

ZOG

Zog

Pinside member

Unknown

12y 29,550 84 2 9

An excellent EM.

Zog has owned this game in the past.

7.239/10

1 year ago

RW

Beebl

Pinside member

9y 139K 532 64

This is a challenging EM with cool art and theme.

7.076/10

2 years ago

ROC

J-roc

Pinside member

St. Paul, MN

3y 31,150 6 18

Not a bad game but not as good as neptune or abra or as desirable as atlantis.

Layout is ok. I find this machine vastly over priced often.

Other ems play better for the money. But i get the collector aspect

8.005/10

2 years ago

BAW

Bankshot

Pinside member

6y 37,050 7 12 18

Great game. Probably a top 10 EM for me and I am a bigger fan of Williams reverse wedge heads but this is just plain fun. Cool theme, animated BG and great variation of shots. A real winner.

7.784/10

3 years ago

MDF

frenchmarky

Pinside member

Moreno Valley, CA

5y 79,800 3,110 7 30

Not one of my favorite single player Gottliebs that I've owned, didn't keep it that long and it was practically unused. It basically plays like a multiplayer with everything resetting with each ball except the thermometer. The thermometer is the big draw and a cool one and most objectives on the playfield are about advancing it. And the Atlantis-type rollover lanes on the right are cool. Just kind of felt like a single player... that wasn't.

8.226/10

3 years ago

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Silverstreak02

Pinside member

Lutz, FL

8y 61,300 1,306 4 7

I played this in an arcade. Although it wasn’t in great shape I couldn’t stop playing it. I’d love to find one for my collection.

7.864/10

3 years ago

DZA

dza33

Pinside member

5y 32,900 24 11 11

Centigrade 37 is one of my favorite EM games. I love the artwork and the "thermometer" scoring makes for an interesting objective.

I find EM games hard to rate in general since I have to "forget" everything I know about modern pinball. That being said, I can safely say that this is an EM game I would actually play today. I enjoy trying to fill up the thermometer and the pin is great to look at.

dza33 currently owns this game.

8.177/10

3 years ago

BPC

Whitebark

Inactive member

Bozeman, MT

3y 8,750 1 8

Wonderful theme, certainly to be a piece of art in any collection!

7.817/10

3 years ago

DRK

Seahawk53

Pinside member

Highlands Ranch, CO

10y 39,250 29 3 8

Very colorful game! The mechanical thermometer in the backglass is pretty cool. Overall a very easy machine to beat. I have a near collectors quality machine so game play is like it was designed to be out of the box. I huge collectors machine. Didn't make too many of them. Incorporates the bagatelle feature that was popular with so many Gottliebs like Atlantis, Lawman, and C37. Great machine for the novice player for sure. Artwork is a bit bizarre, but flows well with the machine.

Seahawk53 currently owns this game.

9.718/10

3 years ago

APB

Whitewater

Whitewater mods

Manly

8y 47,050 220 22 14

I love this table, it ticks all the boxes for me. Very attractive art package and both fun, easy and challenging all at the same time. Rolling it over and getting the 100,000 light isn’t too hard, but it is satisfying seeing the light come on, getting to 200,000 is a bit harder but achievable...however getting the thermometer to reach the top is very hard indeed, kinda like the wizard mode in a modern game. I have installed a flashing led in the backglass at the top of the experiment tube so when the thermometer gets to 100% and the light comes on it flashes.

Whitewater currently owns this game.

9.418/10

3 years ago

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Jugglebug65

Pinside member

Fresno, CA

6y 24,900 7 13

Right up There with Atlantis, Jacks open and Card whiz in my humble opinion. Top 5 playing game of all time and top 3 artwork of all time.

7.422/10

3 years ago

DIA

mrossman5

Pinside+ Frequent

Warren, PA

6y 197K 3,183 7 253

Not a big EM guy, but I do like this game. Art looks nice.

8.196/10

3 years ago

JJB

jbovenzi

Pinside+ Addict

Sparks, NV

8y 112K 1,385 34

A top Gottlieb Wedgehead! Not the best (Abra Ca Dabra/Team One, El Dorado, Surfer, Jacks Open all better), but works for me.

Bagatelle on the right detracts some of the fun, but the playfield art, backglass and thermometer are all outstanding.

Collectible game for sure. Get it for the crazy artwork!

8.379/10

3 years ago

JMS

swampfire

Pinside+ Addict

11y 168K 13,601 48

I just finished installing a new playfield in my C37, and put in about 20 games. I’ll compare it to Abra Ca Dabra (which I own) and Strange World (which I foolishly sold).

Art: the playfield is perfection, and the backglass is great if you don’t look too closely at the scientist. As a friend said, she just looks a little...off. I’d rank C37 behind ACD and SW on art. But it’s Gordon Morrison, and the art is better than 90% of the pins of this era. It looks nice in a room.

Layout: C37 shoots well. It’s tough to get the ball back to the ABCD rollovers, and the kick out hole at the top is surprisingly difficult. The bagatelle is lucrative but also dangerous and there are an few ways to lose the ball, one being in the middle of the the run. I’d rank the layout a tie with ACD and SW. Ball times are about normal, and it’s plenty challenging to keep the ball in play.

Rules: this is where C37 is a little disappointing. If you’re playing in a competition, you should know that the thermometer “advances” are worth 0 points. You’ll get 5k for every lit white circle, whether “Double Advance” is lit or not. The game could have been so much better if the thermometer counted down as bonus at the end of the game. When we play this in league, I’ll tell players to add 25K points if they fill up the thermometer and light special. That will make it worth going for. Setting the thermometer aside, scoring is heavily weighted toward the bagatelle. A perfect run is 20k points, and on average it’s worth 10k. By contrast the drops are always 500 (unless I’m missing something). The game would be better balanced if the lit white circles were worth 1000 each, instead of 5000.

I hate to end on a down note. C37 is still a lot of fun to play, and completing the thermometer is a fun goal on its own. It’s just no match for games like ACD and SW, which reward strategic shooting.

swampfire edited previous rating on February 23, 2024.

10.000/10

3 years ago

CP

BRONX

Pinside member

Hamilton, ON

4y 42,300 702 36

What can I say??? This game is fun!!! Never gets old. I scored 199,980 points in a tournament, I almost flipped it twice :0( missed it by 20points !!! This pinball should be on everyone's top 5. Love the temperature ribbon in the animated backglass. I can spend hours on this pinball. I finally got one, april2021!!! have been playing for past month. I updated my rating. This game is even better than I thought. Everyone goes bananas for this one!!! Perfect 10, so much fun & amazing artwork

BRONX edited previous rating on August 01, 2021.

9.426/10

4 years ago

ZAP

zahner

Pin-a-Go-Go

Fair Oaks, CA

10y 81,800 1,098 6 16

So regret selling this game. Super fun to play with great EM rules. Loved the animation in the BG and was always a big Gordon Morison fan, and this was one of my favorites.

zahner has owned this game in the past.

8.662/10

4 years ago

KOJ

koji

Pinside member

Surrey, BC

6y 112K 2,658 14 65

The playfield layout leads to several challenging shots, utilized at different times in the game. You have the skill plunge for the top ABC rollovers which increase the bonus advance opportunity for the drop targets, and iuncrease the scoring for the kick out hole special.

You have a D rollover which can be hit with a difficult shot from the right flipper.

You have the challenge to hit all four drops, and then activate an alternating target on the right side to enable 2x advance bonus mode.

You have another target shot to reset the drops.

You have the bagetelle style lanes on the right which are mainly for progressing the bonus advance.

Progressing the bonus, takes the temperature to the top, which triggers the special.

The layout for the flippers also promotes post passes, and a risky catch on the right side for a drain.

One of, if not the best art packages of any pinball.

koji edited previous rating on August 03, 2021.
koji has owned this game in the past.

8.792/10

4 years ago

TKM

Daditude

Pinside Moderator

Rockwall, TX

5y 266K 10,121 23 271

This is a really fun game with a quirky theme (like all the best EMs!). The goal is simple enough, but the gameplay will challenge your skills. If you think EMs aren't your thing, try this game and think again.

7.866/10

4 years ago

TPD

tomdrum

Tom's Pinball

Port Matilda, PA

6y 167K 7,458 16 52

I really enjoy this game. Very challenging and addictive! Flipping it over and getting the 100K light is cool.

tomdrum has this game on the wishlist.

9.822/10

5 years ago

GBT

MrPaint

Pinside member

La Quinta, CA

12y 65,200 49 36 59

One of the games I have on my want list. I have put in offers on several Centigrade 37's. I have not owned one yet!!!!! I think Centigarde 37 is on of the best if not thee best Em. The game play and shots are well thought out. I love the theme and Art. Hard to find.

MrPaint has this game on the wishlist.

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