[New VP10 Alert] Baseball (Gottlieb 1970) 1.2.1

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Baseball (Gottlieb 1970) 1.2.1

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If you’re playing this table and not yelling: “Runner on third!” or “Home run!” then you’re doing it wrong.

 

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

 

Think of each ball as an inning. 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 into left field to score that home run.

 

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 home run 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...

 

(BTW, IPDB says the star-style rollover buttons on this table, they're the bases, were first introduced to the world in this game.)

 

Loserman76, RIP, brought us this table to VPX and he is to be thanked foremost for this and over 200 other EM (electro-mechanical) tables. EMUnderdogs have added a recessed apron, playfield shadows and more enhancements to try and make the table more authentic to the original.

 

The original table from Loserman76:

 

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

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• Submitter
  EMUnderdogs
• Submitted
  04/03/24
• Category
  VPX - Pinball Tables