Hi pinsiders
First price: The good feeling beeing the owner of the "First / oldest REAL Gottlieb Manual".
Up to now I am Leader / Winner: I own a printed Manual of "Orbit, December 1971": http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1724
How about YOU ? Greetings Rolf
P.S.: A "REAL" Manual has a Front-Cover-Page and the pages are "put together as in a book" (I do not know the right English word - I am german speaking).
Update: DirtFlipper mentions: "Snow Derby is the oldest I have for Gottlieb. (Steve Young at PBR could probably provide a definite answer." http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2229 , December 1970, https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/anyone-know-the-first-williams-game-to-include-a-manual (post-6)
Hi pinsiders
in an german forum somebody is looking for a manual "Gottlieb College Queens, May 1969" https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=543 --- (see post-3) DirtFlipper says +/- "Snow Derby is the oldest Gottlieb with an manual - I did some search --- we can buy Gottlieb manuals starting with Snow Queen / Snow Derby.
The man (looking for a College Queens manual) claims "There was an manual in Germany but the operator had to order it separately". ipdb shows "post adjustment": https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=543&picno=10696 -
my questions: Do You know about the post adjustment - Was it a card attached somewhere in the cabinet ? Was it just a loose paper ? Coming with the pin ? Was it a page in an manual - THE manual ? Have You ever heard of an "Gottlieb College Quens Manual" ? - How many pages ? Greetings Rolf
As far as I know or have encountered, all GTB pins prior to 1970, did not have official manuals.
Maybe a few pages stapled together (or all loose)
with a start up sequence and maybe a ring chart and post adjustments and maybe coinage adjustments.
Separate little packet envelope had the S/I cards and pricing cards.
No Rules or other details.
Pinball Resource has a list of Gottlieb game specific parts at: http://www.pbresource.com/pfplayfEM.htm
Listed among parts are game manuals for:
Aquarius 10/1970
Snow Queen 11/1970
This is the list of what they have available, not necessarily the list of what was published. But Aquarius seems to be the 1st game manual on that list.
The PBR page also states that manuals were never made for Add A Ball games.
/Mark
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Aarau
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