I concur, Sample version of Diamond Jack. I am looking at a black-and-white copy of the Gottlieb flyer and it shows the black box around Game Over. Too bad I missed the CL before it expired or I would have asked for permission to show pics. if anyone re-finds that game and thinks of it, please go to IPDB and wake me up.

Thanks,

Jay

I have captured both bg and pf pictures to store offline for now. Thx.

Well, this sure was fun trying to figure out why this 'Aces & Kings' glass exists! I contacted the seller, a nice guy, who sent me plenty of hi-res pictures for Duncan Brown and me to examine. The seller cheerfully climbed up and down the basement stairs repeatedly every time I needed another picture or two, and joked that his wife was beginning to wonder if he had a girlfriend in his basement. I told him to tell her that all that is down there are Aces and Kings but that she was the only Queen in the house.

He said he has had this game for at least 35 years (and agreed to let me instead say he got the game "by 1980", a more useful time point). That eliminated 35 years worth of possibility that a latter-day hobbyist cobbled the glass together. He has since added more pictures to his CL ad and I have updated the IPDB listing with many pictures and two long paragraphs in the Notes section:

http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=11

Thank you, textrivers, for posting this glass in pinside in the first place. Thank you, leckmeck, for pointing out the Drop-A-Card and Pop-A-Card comparison. That was unexpected and added much to the fun research. And a big thank you to DennisDodel for seeing their posts and privately emailing me to tell me about it, otherwise I would not have known about it at all, as unfortunately I am unable to frequent this nice (and huge) site.

Jay

P.S. If anyone sees a pinball machine, backglass, or alternate cabinet art that you wonder could be of historical interest, or is a game for which we have no pictures or few pictures, we would like to hear from you. If you saw the game online, email me only the URL, not the pictures. If the pictures are temporary, such as an ad or auction site, please put "ebay" or "craigslist" in the subject line of the email along with the game name. This will alert me to the time sensitivity so I can jump on it ahead of other things. I am at jay-at-ipdb-dot-org. If you are the photographer of the pictures, as always please submit them to us using our site interface, which is the link [Submit Changes] found in each game listing.

You're welcome. Glad you enjoy the site. Yeah, I tell myself I should change my user name to 'Sasquatch' as that is how rare it is to see me here. LOL.