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Top Score / IPD No. 2589 / October, 1975 / 2 Players

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Manufacturer:

D. Gottlieb & Company (1931-1977) [Trade Name: Gottlieb]

Date Of Manufacture:

October, 1975

Model Number:

389

Type:

Electro-mechanical (EM)

Production:

3,304 units (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site)

Theme:

Sports - Bowling

Specialty:

Mechanical Backbox Animation

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (4), Kick-out holes (2), Spinning target (1), Star rollover (1), Two parallel lanes of serial rollovers. Right outlane ball return gate. Mechanical backbox animation (bowling balls added). Half-moon credit window. End-of-ball bonus.

Replay wheel maximum: 9

Design by:

Ed Krynski

Art by:

Gordon Morison

Notes:

The 4-player version of this game is Gottlieb's 1975 '"300"'.

The manufacturer's flyer refers to the parallel side lanes as the "Tantalizing Pin Ball Lane".

The two outlanes on the playfield of production games each have their text description of "Adds Bonus" appearing above their rollover switches and inside an area painted blue. In contrast, the playfield in the manufacturer’s flyer shows these blue areas appearing below the rollover switches and, unfortunately, the text they contain are obscured from view. The flyer game may be a Sample game or an Early Production game.

We have increased our confirmed production run quantity to include 104 Sample games produced in 1975 that were not part of the former quantity per handwritten documentation identified by Wayne Neyens as coming from Bob Malvasio, a draftsman for Gottlieb whose initials RHM can be found on schematics.

Price to operator: $995 FOB Chicago, per newsletter from authorized distributor dated November 1975.

Photos in:

Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z

Owners List URL:

http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/2589 (External site)

Documentation:

676 KB

PDF

Schematic Diagram (continuous) (Availability limited by copyright)

[D. Gottlieb & Co.]

Files:

5 MB

PDF

Installation Procedures And Game Operation Instructions (Availability limited by copyright)

[D. Gottlieb & Co.]

2 MB

PDF

Supplement Coin Chute Circuits For Top Score (Availability limited by copyright)

[D. Gottlieb & Co.]

Images:
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Flyer 838x1076	Backglass 471x351 [Pete McDonald]	Playfield 345x469 [Pete McDonald]	Inside Backbox 640x480 [John Yates]	Under Playfield 480x640 [John Yates]
Inside Cabinet 480x640 [John Yates]	Cabinet - Left 960x1280 [John Yates]	Cabinet - Right 960x1280 [John Yates]	Upper Playfield 504x378 [Dennis Dodel]	Cabinet - Front View 354x600 [Dennis Dodel]
Playfield - Ball View 1024x1365 [Vic Camp]	Playfield 1024x1365 [Vic Camp]	Backglass 1024x1365 [Vic Camp]	Cabinet - Front View 1024x1365 [Vic Camp]	Inside Cabinet 1024x1365 [Vic Camp]
Upper Right Playfield Detail 480x640 [John Gray]	Illuminated Backglass 1024x846 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Cabinet - Right 1024x337 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Backbox - Right 749x1600 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Inside Backbox 1024x892 [Jean-Pierre Renault]

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