Gottlieb made some very nice games. Had quite a few stinkers as well, mostly due to a big lack of refinement in the software department.

I own a Black Hole, Haunted House, TX-Sector, Night Moves and Street Fighter II and I like them all. TX and Black Hole are definately my favorites of the bunch. I also own a Hot Fire Birds, a machine by German brand NSM. It has a playfield designed and produced by Premier/Gottlieb inside it. My brother owns an Arena and a Surf 'n' Safari, which we enjoy immensely with a few beers on the side.

Black Hole, with a reflection of Orbitor 1

"PLAY BETTER!"
Steve Ritchie

But seriously: multiball in Black Hole is difficult to achieve, but very attainable. Shameless plug to my own video where you can see it happen twice in one game:

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Hah... Night Moves is actually the only pin allowed in my living room... by myself. I don't like the 'loud' presence of a regular pin in my living room. Living space is quite scarce in an old Amsterdam city apartment. For that, I like to keep my pins in the game room downstairs. But Night Moves is the exception. It looks and feels like part of the furniture. Not sure if my downstairs neighbor feels the same way.

Great game. I'd like it even more if there were different scoring rules in multiball.

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Yes. Black Hole is absolutely the better game, IMHO. Better gameplay, better rules. And a good multiball, which helps a lot as well. When I play Haunted House, I regularly feel like I'm just flailing the ball around with no specific purpose. When playing Black Hole, the purpose is definitely there. That said: I wouldn't sell either.

In the art department, it's a tie. Both have awesome themes. Haunted House has the triple playfields, Black Hole has the infinity backglass with the spinning disk. Both games are very striking and have heaps of personality.

Here's a video of my Night Moves cocktail pin I just put online for all you Premier/Gottlieb afficionados.

It's the last original System 80B-design that Premier ever built. They built it on contract for International Concepts, so it doesn't carry the Premier/Gottlieb branding. There's quite an interesting -but sad- story behind the game, of which Todd Tuckey speaks in his Youtube videos on the game.

It might not be a Premier/Gottlieb by name, but it's definitely one in every other aspect. Enjoy!

Nice Bad Girls! Reminds me of the one I had.