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yogiholzer:
http://droptargetzine.blogspot.de/2011/07/custom-re-themed-pinball-machines.html

Shooby Doo:
That looks amazing. I'm not a huge anime fan, but I love Akira. It works great as a pinball theme. I found this on pinside:



Apparently it was done for a cover of the 4th volume of Akira mangas in Japan... so perhaps the table doesn't really exist?

I also came across this game for the PS2. I never knew it existed:

Itchigo:
I've never seen this before. I was aware of Buck Rodgers in the day, but I haven't seen this one.

sleepy:
I have a couple of table memories that I cannot account for.

One was a vertical cab pinball (looked like a video game) that used a smaller playfield that you viewed through a vertically mounted diagonal mirror at the back of the cab in order to give the visual ball a feeling of weightlessness because the game was a space theme involving Rockets. It had a candy cane-shaped left alcove lane that spelled ROCKET.
This machine used two upright handles with the flipper buttons mounted in the place of what would be the triggers on a fighter jet joystick. Almost like a Atari Battlezone, though the cab was normal video game size.
Never found this one at ipdb, though I played it in the early 1980's.
And No. It is not the Bally game.

And there was a conventional pinball with *I think* a big city-theme that is almost forgotten here, but one of the shots went *I think* between a trio of white posts to hit a star rollover Trigger button, or maybe an Eject Hole (why does VP call these "Kickers"??). This was in the upper left corner, or near it. On a light blue playfield, illustrator designed artwork with illustrated yellow street lights depicted in the "painted" artwork.
Not Real Lights like pinball lights.
I am thinking that this was either also a re-themed machine that was released commercially, or was a product of another country.
This was at a bowling alley in Los Angeles that also had Zaccaria Soccer Kings for a time, very rare one-of-a-kind machines for this part of the U.S., and it was The Only Place that I ever saw Soccer Kings in my entire life.

Pintrepid:
Hmmmmm ... that Rocket-themed game sounds really cool. But I don't remember seeing anything like it.

I found this at Stern Pinball's Blogs ... thought this might be interesting. But this ins't the game that you were referring to.



There were a great many games back in the day, too many to mention. But I think I'd remember a game like you described, especially from the early '80's.

As for the city-themed table, sorry, it's hard to know which city-themed table you are thinking of. Are you seeing any images in your search? If you have anything at all, you could post and say, "it looks something like this". That might cause someone else to have an "AHA!" Moment and know which exact machine you are talking about!  8)

A couple things that might steer you in the right direction ... maybe ...

Go to International Arcade Museum online and have a look around. Note: there are many games listed here that have very little information with it .. but it might be useful for helping you to refine your search a little. Every now and then, you might even run into a long-forgotten game from back in the day and have a great rush of memories come over you like a flood!

Also, use Google with some creatively worded searches, like "city themed pinball" or "R O C K E T pinball" (will show "rocket pinball" results, as well as results that talk about "scoring R O C K E T" that might lead to the machine you're thinking of. And when you have a set of search results, try switching to "Images" and see what pops up. It may help you refine your search, if it doesn't find your actual table. But a word of caution when searching by images ... it's VERY easy to get totally distracted by something else and you might forget what you were searching for~  ;D

For pinball posts, every bit of info is helpful to find what you are looking for. But try to be as specific as possible to help narrow things down. For instance, Gottlieb made MANY tables, much of which are in the 50s and 60s, and many of those with rocket and/or city themes. It would help if you could remember if it was an older table like that, or if it was a later model EM table or an early SS table from the late 70s or early 80s, or a "modern" super-ultra-mega-flashy-rampy table from the late 80's onward. The more specific, the easier it may be to help you find what you are looking for.

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