This is way too funny. I’ve thought about posting on the exact same topic for years.

My brothers and I remember playing a pinball machine in my neighbors basement that had a guy panning for gold on it. I seem to remember him being in the lower left hand corner, crouched down and looking like an old cowboy. I was too young to remember any other details but my older brother says it was definitely an EM and possibly multi player.

We have searched for years and never found anything close to what we remember. The one we remember is not any of the ones suggested above.

I just came across this 1970 Pasini Old Gold that is the closest thing to what my brothers and I remember playing. It’s absolutely crazy to think that this Italian made machine would have been in a Pennsylvania basement in the early 90s. Is it possible that the artwork was inspired by some other USA made machine? Unfortunately IPDB does not have any pics of the playfield, although I remember nothing about that part.

OP - I would be very interested whether step brother has the same immediate reaction to it that we did.

https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=5948

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