Baseball (Gottlieb 1970) 1.2

Baseball plus pinball is a match made in heaven — and Baseball (Gottlieb 1970) demonstrates that perfectly.

Think of each ball as an inning (too bad there are only 5 in this game — apparently a version from Gottlieb called Batters Up allowed for additional balls to be won). Targets and rollovers on the playfield score your team singles, doubles, triples — and when they do, the bases on a baseball diamond light up to indicate runners on those bases. It is incredibly rewarding to see all the bases lit up, bases loaded, and then make a perfect vari-target drive in to left field to score a homerun. (BTW, IPDB says the star-style rollover buttons on this table, they're the bases, were first introduced in this game.)

Unique to this game is a separate tally of runs in addition to the usual method of pinball scoring. Bring a runner home and a run is scored — try for that bases-loaded homerun to increase your runs by four. A separate high score counter keeps track of the most runs made in a game.

If only Gottlieb had made this a two-player game you could have competed on runs with a friend...

Loserman76, RIP, brought us all this table and he is to be thanked foremost for this and over 200 other EM (electro-mechanical) tables. Others in the community have contributed including Teisen, Cliffy.... In this version I have added Fleep sounds and richer sound code. It is especially nice on SSF (surround sound feedback) setups but benefits desktop players as well. Cliffy made changes to materials, lighting, removing errant reflections, etc.

The original table from Loserman76:

https://vpuniverse.com/files/file/8787-baseball-gottlieb-1970/

Teisen's modded version of Loserman76's table:

https://vpuniverse.com/files/file/17790-baseball-gottlieb-1970_teisen_mod/