Our Previous episodes have all been from the early solid-state era. The last 70’s and early 80’s was where the industry went though some of its largest shifts, we call that ‘disruption’ now-a-days. The exit of electro-mechanical pinball and the entrance of solid-state was a watershed moment in the hobby.
Some companies excelled in the new market and some fell almost immediately. Gottlieb well… they became zombies, just refusing to die and walking on and on and on… hanging in there… Somehow…
Today we’re going to review their final years of Gottlieb in the System 3 era.
As always we love to hear from you and we can always be reached at silverballchronicles@gmail.com
Sources:
Dennis Kriesel’s Street Level Pinball Machines Article from Pinball News. Here
Eclectic Gamers Podcast #47. Here
Internet Pinball Database. Here
Jon Norris IPDB. Here
Pinside at pinside.com
Gottlieb Developments. Here
Wikipedia:
Interview with Jon Norris. Here. Here.
Jon Norris Article. Here
Pinball News. Smoked Out. Norris Leaves Stern. Here
This Week in Pinball. Around the Playfield with Jon Norris. Here
Norris Pinball Website. Here
TOPCast Pinball Show:
Encyclopedia of Pinball Volume 2 (1934-1936). Bueschel, Richard M. Silverball Amusements.
Shalhoub, Michael (2004). The Pinball compendium: 1982 to Present. Schiffer Publishing, Lt. Here
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