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Star Gazer / IPD No. 2346 / August, 1980 / 4 Players

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7.4/10 (19 ratings/14 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]

Manufacturer:

Stern Electronics, Incorporated, of Chicago, Illinois,
USA (1977-1984) [Trade Name: Stern]

Date Of Manufacture:

August, 1980

Model Number:

127

MPU:

Stern M-200 MPU

Type:

Solid State Electronic (SS)

Production:

869 units (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

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

Theme:

Horoscope - Astrology

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), 3-bank drop targets (3), Spinning targets (3), Stand-up targets (12, one for each Zodiac sign). There are no side lane flipper feeds. Instead, there are semi-circle concave scoops feeding each flipper. Hitting one of the drops on the top left bank will stop the vari-value lights, locking in a value for each spin of the adjacent spinner and an inverse (converse) value of knocking the rest of that bank of drops down.

Design by:

Brian Poklacki

Art by:

Gerry Simkus

Notes:

The backglass shows a tassell made of cords hanging above the girl's left knee, tied to what looks like a loose-fitting belt. The lower playfield shows this same girl without her belt and tassell, yet on some playfields the bottom end of the tassell is inexplicably suspended over her left knee without showing the cords above it. Other games show this area seemingly painted over. It appears to be a goof that was caught during production and corrected. It is unknown to us how many playfields were made of each type.

The backglass carries the artist signature "JERI" which we believe was Geraldine Simkus, who worked at Advertising Posters.

Manufacturer data for Star Gazer:
Production Start Date: 8/26/80
Production End Date: 11/6/80
Quantity produced: 869

Marketing Slogans:

"Thou art gazing at the brightest star of all."

Photos in:

Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas) External Link

, page 77
The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981 External Link

, page 190 (shows tassel)
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z

Owners List URL:

http://members.iquest.net/~abc123/sg.html (External site)

ROMs:

7 KB

ZIP

Game ROMs

[Stern Electronics, Inc.]

7 KB

ZIP

Home Rom V9

7 KB

ZIP

PinMAME Romset

Documentation:

2 MB

PDF

English Manual

[Stern Electronics, Inc.]

3 MB

PDF

Schematic Diagrams (paginated)

[Stern Electronics, Inc.]

Images:
(click to zoom)

Playfield (no tassel) 960x1280 [David O'Neil]	Flyer, Front 608x790	Flyer, Back 609x787	Backglass 379x315 [Doug Fox]	Backglass 891x745 [Pascal Villedieu]
Illuminated Backglass 1000x864 [Adriaan van Roeden]	Tassel Above Girl's Knee* 1024x768 [Ian Wilkinson]	Promotional Photo 827x993 [Jim Palson]	Illuminated Backglass* 854x768 [Ted Mottor]	Illuminated Backglass - Detail* 1024x768 [Ted Mottor]
Playfield* 600x800 [Ted Mottor]	Lower Playfield* 1024x768 [Ted Mottor]	Upper Left Playfield* 1024x768 [Ted Mottor]	Playfield - Detail* 1024x1365 [Ted Mottor]	No Tassel Above Girl's Knee* 1024x1365 [Ted Mottor]
Middle Right Playfield* 1024x768 [Ted Mottor]	Playfield - Ball View* 1024x768 [Ted Mottor]	Playfield - Ball View* 1024x768 [Ted Mottor]	Middle Playfield* 800x600 [Ted Mottor]	Flipper Scoop* 800x600 [Ted Mottor]
Cabinet - Left* 1024x768 [Ted Mottor]	Cabinet - Right* 738x768 [Ted Mottor]	Cabinet - Front* 968x768 [Ted Mottor]	Cabinet - Rear View* 582x768 [Ted Mottor]	Inspection Card Showing Date* 1024x768 [Ted Mottor]
Lower Playfield* 1024x768	Tassel Above Girl's Knee* 1200x900 [Jay Stafford]	Artist Signature* 968x1296 [The PinGame Journal]

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