| Surf Champ / IPD No. 2459 / August, 1976 / 4 Players | [ Submit Changes ] |
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Maximum displayed point score is 99,990 points per player.
Replay wheel maximum: 15
Sound: 3 chimes.
On the lower front of the backbox are painted two horizontal stripes. The flyer game and a Sample game shown here each show a blue stripe above a yellow stripe. Other games show a yellow stripe above a blue stripe. This may have been a change during production or a correction by the cabinet maker.
For many years, the production run quantity had been reported for this Model 386 as 1,070 units. Reportedly, this number had come from Gottlieb records. We had contacted Wayne Neyens who said his old company records also indicated this 1,070 quantity. However, users have long commented that they have seen more examples of 'Surf Champ' back in the 1970s (and subsequently) than one would expect to have seen for a game with a production run quantity of 1,070 units. We then received company documentation first obtained at the 1996 public auction of Gottlieb assets held in Bensonville Illinois. It detailed sales numbers for games made during 1976-1978. For Surf Champ, it showed the sales numbers broken down by distributor and it showed a grand total of 10,070 units. This appears to be a rare instance of a typographical or recording error having occurred in other Gottlieb data.
With that said, we have again increased our confirmed production run quantity to include 273 Sample games produced in 1976 that were not part of the 10,070 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: $1195 FOB Chicago, per newsletter from authorized distributor dated October 1976.
, page 70The Complete Pinball Book
, page 60The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981
, page 98Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z
Pinball (Zsolnay)
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 Playfield 368x543 [Russ Jensen] |
 Flyer 609x788 |
 Backglass Detail 400x300 [Bruno Durand] |
 Backglass 653x533 |
 Instructions 542x432 |
 Cabinet 621x533 |
 Backglass - Detail 400x300 [Bruno Durand] |
 Lower Playfield 500x375 [Rick Stefonek] |
 Cabinet - Left 500x375 [Rick Stefonek] |
 Cabinet - Right 500x375 [Rick Stefonek] |
 Backbox - Left 428x375 [Rick Stefonek] |
 Backbox - Right 397x375 [Rick Stefonek] |
 Front 443x375 [Rick Stefonek] |
 Playfield 1024x1156 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Upper Playfield 1024x683 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Lower Playfield 1024x683 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Rollunder Spinner - Back 1024x533 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Rollunder Spinner - Front 1024x549 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Left Slingshot Plastic 596x1415 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Right Slingshot Plastic 418x1003 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Left Lane Plastic 1024x1536 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Right Lane Plastic 692x1152 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Right Side Plastic 732x802 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Backglass 1024x1005 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Drop Targets 1024x349 [Jean-Pierre Renault] |
 Backglass - Detail 1024x768 [Olivier Mathe] |
 Backglass 1200x1193 [John Abrahamian] |
 Sample Game - Backglass* 1200x1228 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Illuminated Backglass* 1200x1221 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Playfield* 600x1200 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Illuminated Upper Playfield* 1200x799 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Upper Playfield* 1200x1245 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Lower Playfield* 1200x1440 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Drop Targets* 1200x766 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Inked Serial Number* 1200x862 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Backbox - Left* 1200x1960 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Backbox - Right* 1200x2215 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Cabinet - Left* 1200x626 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Cabinet - Right* 1200x572 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Cabinet Rear* 1200x1962 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Stamped Serial Number* 1200x688 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Inside Backbox* 1200x1106 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Under Playfield* 1200x2307 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Inside Cabinet* 1200x800 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Inked Serial Number* 1200x868 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Inspection Number* 1200x868 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Inspection Number* 1200x628 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Schematic Date* 1200x823 [Tom Bishop] |
 Sample Game - Schematic Correction* 1200x800 [Tom Bishop] |
