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50's Gottlieb - best art plus gameplay?

By Shapeshifter

9 years ago


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    #3 9 years ago

    Sittin' Pretty
    Criss Cross
    Grand Slam
    Queen of Hearts
    Ace High

    it's a slippery slope...

    #7 9 years ago

    The thing with woodrails is that they tend to be hard to find, and harder to find in nice enough cosmetic condition. So searching for specific titles can be a frustrating experience. If one runs across a woodrail that's in decent enough cosmetic condition (or at least has a nice playfield, and available repro backglass and plastics), it's worth considering.

    It can be ages before even finding one available to buy, unless it's from another collector. The ones left out 'in the wild' are quite diminished in availability. Folks didn't have 'rec rooms' to have pinballs in the home until the 60's (generally), and the woodrails didn't have a safe haven to land in after being routed. We still find wedgeheads coming out of people's basements that were purchased from ops, but the woodrails we find tend to be because the ops/owners brought them home (these were the games that were in the bars/restaurants, etc and were brought home by the establishment's owner directly). Some of the late-period woodrails were able to bridge to the early 'rec room' movement in the 60's though, and those tend to be in nice shape (*if* you can find them).

    But it's the hunt that makes it fun anyway.

    #9 9 years ago

    I had Twin Bill for awhile. It's a fine game, but I thought that the backglass artwork was crowded by the dual scoring displays. The playfield layout is very similar to the earlier Mystic Marvel though, which I found to be more enjoyable to play for some reason (although MM has much larger gobble holes than Twin Bill). And MM is a 'double award' game, which allows the ability to double all the replays won.

    It would be hard to turn down a chance at either one though.

    Lightning Ball is very cool, and is one of the few later period games that doesn't have a playfield roto target (they put it in the backbox for the animation instead, like Hi Diver). I think it's a very underrated, undervalued title.

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