Good thing he’s in no hurry to sell.

Love the description. Almost makes me want to start a Gottlieb collection from this era

Game has issues, but your buddy expects to get 500 over the average? Glad he is not in a rush.

I'll give him $400

I thought Deadly Weapon was one of the better Gottlieb street level games. I kind of like the unusual placement of the pop bumper on the left.

But yes, the asking price is not consistent with the condition.

Gottlieb had some very interesting themes and design styles in this era, unfortunately their ambition for quality parts wasn't equal.

What makes you say that? I've always found a lot of Gottlieb parts to be higher quality than comparable parts from other manufacturers. Wiring, chime boxes, playfield assemblies, wireform ramps, etc. Gottlieb's flaws were their early board designs and grounding issues. Once you get beyond those issues (which are easily addressed), the games were built like tanks. I always like bringing Gottlieb games to shows since I rarely have to worry about them developing issues.

I am speaking more towards their cabinets, backglasses, playfields, and playfield parts.

I couldn't agree more. There are plenty of things people can fairly criticize regarding Gottliebs, such as rules, flipper design, grounding, etc., but the quality of the parts themselves were second to none in my opinion. The wiring and labeling under the playfield was better than any other manufacturer. Every connector was labeled on each end, the full layout of the underside was screen printed on the bottom of the playfield. I've also never had a cabinet split unlike other manufacturers, although there were some terrible particle board cabinets in the 80s which did fall apart if they absorbed any moisture.

Some cabinets were solid, but at times cheap particleboard was used.

I think backglasses held up well for the most part, although flaking reds were sometimes a problem, like most other manufacturers. I also think part of the issue here was that there were just so many Gottlieb games out there in the northeast, that you've seen so many of them that were just kept in poor conditions. Backglasses that were kept in good storage conditions did a lot better. Williams had a few titles that were notorious for delaminating no matter what you did.

Playfields didn't have a great topcoat, which resulted in paint wear on many titles. I think the wood and inserts didn't exhibit any serious issues, though.

I used to own a Deadly Weapon many years ago .... and I have to admit its actually a fun game. Similar to MNF where you play for pinball score and football score, DW has pinball score and an arrests score.

I am interested in this title but it is always priced well beyond what I am willing to pay. I really don't think I've judged the market wrong but why does everyone seem to want $1300+?

Deadly Weapon is actually a fun and entertaining pinball game. Many unique shots and flow combined with good rules. There is a lot here to like. You are really a good friend to store something you have a visceral repulsion to in your house. The pricing guarantees that you will either never be able to move this game or you will shoulder the guilt of taking advantage of an uninformed, unsuspecting and probably decent human being. Either way, being willing to take the burden your friend is placing on you with this is really above and beyond the call.

Description struck me as honest and unique. I’ll take 2!

I quite like the gameplay on this one but of course I also love gold wings and bad girls lol.

1300 would be a top dollar price and it would have to be very nice at that, this game is maybe worth 500 max currently.

Put some good time on Deadly Weapon at Expo this year. Thought it was good for the most part, I would probably put Hoops as my favorite of the "street level" series. Would love to devote time to Vegas and Car Hop - latter in which I still never played.

I have owned one of these. This is a fun game. The only downfall is you can't earn multiball but you can get it from mystery award.

Game has modes and a reason to shoot all the shots to collect police cars.

Fun shots too. Rare game that doesn't come up too often.

It may be overpriced, but Deadly Weapon is a fun game. Gottliebs from this era are just as well made as other mfgs, and have some features that are better. I like all the street level games, but Title Fight is the best.

They have no features that are “better” unless you can’t get enough of mystery awards.

Yes their board sets are well built but those cabinets are awful.

Sorry Levi, I wasn't clear... The features meant in the builds and boards. The cabs suck, but that's pretty much at the bottom of my list of things to look for. And you're right the mystery awards were a bad idea. But in these pinflation daze, the street level games are a good bang for the buck. They failed in the real world because distributors didn't pass on the cheaper prices to the route dudes, so they saw no reason to buy them over the rampy shtuff.

The description was awesome. Kudos and a thumbs up OP!

The cabinets did the job and sure as hell didn't split like a contemporary brand I won't mention. I'd like to see another company do a legit vari-target and also didn't see other manufacturers of that vintage make use of #47 bulbs as flashers in the pop bumpers either.

I’ll never understand why gottlieb was so obsessed with the mystery award.

“Hmm...so those kids like that Addams Family game? Putting quarters into T2 eh?

You what they’ll like? Mystery Award!!! Ball goes into The hole and they get a multi ball!! It’ll be a hit! And to make it even more awesome, that’s the only way to get a multi ball! Take that Williams!”

I have a brand new playfield for a DWeapon. Been waiting for one to come onto the market, but not at this price. Used to own one many, many years back and really enjoyed it.

I keep wanting to love it but then I remember how good Hoops is and just can't bring myself to buy this.

Yup I also hate gottlieb and everything about them, but Glws mr.

Bump for the humor!

I just want to know which one of these clowns will sell there deadly Weapon for $900...
Fully working ....
I will wait....

I feel it is fair price for a hard to find Gottlieb...
Blowing the Coil fuse... Is a shorted coil on the playfeild... Easy fix...

Or are you just saying that cuz you are selling one for double his asking price?
I'll wait....

No just curious how many people are letting them go for 900...
I have seen 2 sell in the last year for over 2K each... This was at the Ohio pinball show an York show .
So you tell me....

There was a nice one at Allentown about 3 years ago I think it sold for 1600 and it was sold very quick. I have one and it’s a great game. Mine is for sale, if it doesn’t sell locally it will also be at the next Allentown for sale.

Respect the humor bump

Hate to play "price police" but here in the North East I have purchased 5 Gottliebs of this vintage in the last 6 months and the most expensive was $1250 fully shopped with LED's installed and in excellent condition all around. The others were a grand or less, worked with minor issues and were in better condition than the unit for sale.

$1300 if it was fully working perhaps, playfield condition makes it a hard sell.

Gottlieb in this timeframe gets little love I'm afraid. There is exceptions but they are that, exceptions.

I just sold my Deadly Weapon about 5 Months ago for $2,200 Canadian which I think is around $1700 give or take U.S. Fully working, nice playfield, LED, Good cabinet. 100% working.

Finally, a "Deadly Weapon" came up thats routed/unkept in desperate need of repair at a steal of a price!! I've been looking forever... SCORE!!!

I'm not disagreeing with you but it doesn't bode well when you are selling the same game. It just looks like you are price pumping from the outside view. Also I've seen couple of these sell for around $1000 around where I live and it took a long time to sell so there is that.

Back on duty!

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By the way...the local bowling alley has one of these Deadly Weapons in the arcade. I play it more than the only other pinball there, Maverick. The siren sounds when hitting police cars is one of the best in all of pinball. It’s a unique game, and definitely rare. But rarity doesn’t necessarily mean paying more for it.

if i buy it, i can put it right next to my bone busters inc. and officially have the sorriest pinball collection in the whole world.

Says the person who has 38 games in their collection LOL.

You could have the worst 38 games in history and it would still not be a sad collection.

This feels a little personal... For my next pinball ad I will not only disclose all the game's flaws, but my own short comings as a person.

BTW: Gottliebs rule and your ad drools.

i actually like premier games. i was just sticking with the theme of the thread.

Just got back from the bowling alley after playing a few games of Deadly Weapon.. the police car sirens are awesome! Very interesting shots. The pop bumper placement is great. I still don’t know the rules.... there was one timed mode (I guess you would call it a mode) and the sirens ran for 30 seconds straight. Soooo good! Also got the three standup targets to score at million each with a multiplier, and that ran up the score pretty good. It’s an interesting game....GLWS

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I think a lot of the low prices reflect conditions, archived market place ads show about one a year comes up for sale on pinside. Unfortunately these games are far and few, most collectors never get to play one, so opinions are based on opinions they’ve read. This game is system 3 but really feels more like an 80b.

I maybe able to help this sale.

I have a NOS playfield that has been professionally clearcoated. If I had time to go get this it would already be at my house.

If the PF is holding anyone back on this contact me and we might be able to work something out.