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Have You Ever Seen This Pinball Table?
Itchigo:
Interesting. Maybe Goerge Gomez is looking at my designs? Open playfield, for the most part.
sleepy:
Definitely Pintrepid, I've been all around the block with Google.
The city machine was early-mid 80's, while the ROCKET rarity was late 70's-early 80's. I thought it was an Allied Leisure or a Gameplan(?) or someone similar, small outfit, that had tried something similar. Can't remember it since I never saw that one in real life,
though there is a pinball game like it (video-style cab with fighter pilot flipper handles) that is listed at IPDB.
Bally also tried a design like that, but the game I played was definitely not the
Bally game.
So it could be that the ROCKET game was re-themed also.
And the fighter pilot grips/joysticks also provided built-in nudging by moving the grips. There was an electro-mechanical set of nudgers attached to the playfield and wired to the sticks.
Pintrepid:
Wow ... I'd sure love to see that Rocket game! That sounds very cool!
I'll also be browsing around the web for that City Pin ... I hate that when I got a memory in my mind, but I can't for the life of me match it up with anything! ::)
There are some really cool tables that Allied Leisure made. That Star Shooter table looks very interesting! Looks like something I would want to recreate in VP if I had the time!
sleepy:
Yeah, I always hesitate in mentioning an unknown game because I don't mean to disturb.
But now I'll have to find that one similar game that I did see posted at ipdb.
Maybe it was a re-themed machine?
sleepy:
Yeah, it was likely an Allied Leisure ShakerBall game, circa 1972 or thereabouts.
There are only two ShakerBall games listed at IPDB; "Sea Hunt" and "Spooksville", neither of which serves my memories.
But it *might have been* that I played "Sea Hunt" and imagined how ShakerBall played through the mirror would do as a space-theme. Improving or inventing new games was a frequent habit of mine back then, and then my dear relations with connections to the industry (black sheep) would take it and do it behind my back, so...either I have a vivid memory of playing a space-themed ShakerBall game, else it was A Damned Good Idea at the time.
I found Ron Halliburton, the designer of Allied Leisure ShakerBall games, and e-mailed him asking about Rockets, so hopefully I will find out for sure.
This is Sea Hunt:
http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2081&picno=32959
This is Spooksville:
http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2298&picno=32389
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