Forgotten Gottlieb Prototype Brought Back To Life
Forgotten Gottlieb Prototype Brought Back To Life
This episode I got invited to a private presentation with Q&A about a Gottlieb Prototype from the 70's. The man giving the presentation was a former game designer at Gottleib.He walks us through his process of restoring the game, along with commentary on the build. ── ABOUT THIS CHANNEL ── I'm Erika a filmmaker who fell into a pinball rabbit hole and never came back. This channel documents pinball's stories, people, and evolution. New here? Welcome. ── CONNECT ── Instagram: Facebook: Twitch: Sweaters:
Kineticist’s take
John Osborne restores rare Gottlieb home pinball prototype Texas Ranger, documenting failed 1970s experiment.
Synopsis
John Osborne, a legendary Gottlieb designer, restores and documents a rare one-of-a-kind Gottlieb prototype home pinball machine called Texas Ranger from the early 1970s. The machine reveals Gottlieb's experimental approach to bringing pinball into residential settings, featuring innovative design choices like a fold-down light box and simplified assembly, but ultimately reveals impractical engineering decisions that likely prevented production. The restoration effort uncovers numerous design quirks, improvisational construction, and technical compromises that illuminate Gottlieb's product development philosophy of that era.
Entities
- Bally· company
- Gottlieb· company
- Planetary Pinball· company
- Atlantis· game
- Attaboy· game
- Haunted House· game
- Hit the Deck· game
- Lawman· game
- Sheriff· game
- Strange World· game
- Texas Ranger· game
- Volcano· game
- Erika· person
- John Osborne· person
- Matt Christiano· person
- Michael Gottlieb· person
- Randy Peck· person
- Steve Young· person