Here's the 4-page flyer sent out to arcades in 1980 touting the Gottlieb company's new
Buck Rogers pinball machine. I was never very good at pinball, but I was often seduced into dropping my quarters into various machines by the backglass artwork. Can't say I think much of the likenesses of Buck and Ardala (no Wilma!?), but I love the comic strip style of the
Buck art.
Did this game ever come out? I had three malls with arcades in them within driving distance back then, and none of them had it.
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(missing the days when malls had arcades)
Terrible likeness of Gil Gerard. Even worse of Pamela Hensley. I guess they chose her over Wilma so they could have a bikini clad babe on their machine.
ReplyDeleteI played Pinball in the 90's when arcades still had a pinball or two among the video games. Never saw this Buck Rogers model but I did play many, many games on a Star Wars pinball at a local arcade. I remember one had to "shoot the Death Star" for multi-ball playing.
ReplyDeleteIn 1981 I was in basic training at Fort Dix NJ and this machine was at the bowling alley along with a few other machines. Myself and a couple of other guys plugged a lot of quarters into this one, it was a fun machine to play and always gave back a lot of specials and free games. Fun memories!
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