- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Spinning Targets
- gameplay_feature
- Standup Targets ×3
- gameplay_feature
- Roto-Targets ×3
- gameplay_feature
- Drop Targets ×5
- gameplay_feature
- Slingshots
- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×2
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Fipermatic Ind�stria Com�rcio Importa��o e Exporta��o Ltda
- ipdb_id
- 5699
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5699/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5699/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5699/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5699/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5699/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5699/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5699/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5699/image-2.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers(2), Pop bumpers (2), Slingshot (1), Drop targets (5), Roto-targets (3), Standup targets (3), Spinning target (1).
Maximum displayed point score is 199,990 points per player.
- ipdb.notes
- A copy of Gottlieb's 1978 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', this game is an example of Gottlieb Made In Brazil.
Gottlieb shipped unassembled game components to Manaus, Brazil because it was a Tax Free Zone and assembly was finished there by Fipermatic, a Brazilian import and export firm.
The game pictured here, therefore, would have been exported to Brazil by Gottlieb, and it does have Gottlieb-branded parts. One picture shows that the operator was provided a choice of equipping the game with EM chimes or with a System-1 soundboard with speaker to provide electronic sound. Reportedly, either option was at extra cost to the operator. We know this option was provided for other Gottlieb games of this time period and may have been restricted to their export games. We do not have similar pictures of Gottlieb non-export games to help us determine if this choice of sound system existed in export games only. See Gottlieb's 1978 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' for another such picture on a game exported to France.
Inexplicably, the coin entrance housing on this game is branded by Electro-Matic, a Brazilian firm that made their own pinball games. Very little information has been confirmed about them or about Fipermatic, or of any cooperative relationship between the two companies. Without more information or examples of this game, we cannot say if this housing is original or is an operator replacement for a Gottlieb door.
- player_count
- 4
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Licensed Theme
- theme
- Outer Space