Alvin G. and Company

Alvin G. and Company was a pinball manufacturer founded in 1991 in Melrose Park, Illinois, by Alvin Gottlieb and his son Michael Gottlieb. Alvin was the son of David Gottlieb, who founded D. Gottlieb & Co. in 1927, and had spent 34 years building pinball machines at the family company before it passed out of Gottlieb family hands in the 1970s. With the Gottlieb name licensed to Premier Technology, Alvin and Michael built a new factory under a new name and set out to continue the family's pinball tradition in a market still dominated by Williams, Data East, and Bally.

The company's first release, A.G. Soccer-Ball (1991), put two players on facing playfields for head-to-head competition; it was also released abroad as A.G. Football. Al's Garage Band Goes on a World Tour followed in 1992 and had the company's largest production run. 1993 brought Punchy the Clown, Mystery Castle, and Pistol Poker, each built only in small runs. Several other titles never got past prototypes, including Dual-Pool, a redemption version of USA Football, and Slam 'N Jam.

The company closed in March 1994, after roughly three years and about half a dozen titles that reached market.