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month: OPDB 1 IPDB 8 Flipcommons Catalog 1 used
gameplay_feature: IPDB Ramps ×2 used IPDB Flippers ×3 used
credit: IPDB Bill Grupp — Software IPDB Tom Uban — Software IPDB Paul Heitsch — Sound IPDB Paul Heitsch — Music IPDB Tom Kopera — Mechanics IPDB Scott Slomiany — Dots/Animation IPDB Eugene Geer — Dots/Animation IPDB Dan Hughes — Art IPDB George Gomez — Design Flipcommons Catalog Paul Heitsch — Sound used Flipcommons Catalog Tom Uban — Software used Flipcommons Catalog Bill Grupp — Software used Flipcommons Catalog Paul Heitsch — Music used Flipcommons Catalog Tom Kopera — Mechanics used Flipcommons Catalog Scott Slomiany — Dots/Animation used Flipcommons Catalog Eugene Geer — Dots/Animation used Flipcommons Catalog George Gomez — Design used Flipcommons Catalog Dan Hughes — Art used

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display_type: dot-matrix OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
technology_generation: solid-state OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
player_count: 4 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
year: 1994 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
opdb_id: GrjDz-MJKN6 OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
name: Corvette OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
theme: Car Culture IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
system: williams-wpc-s IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
production_quantity: 5001 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
ipdb_id: 570 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog

Single source (14 fields)

abbreviation: OPDB CRVT used
opdb.images: OPDB [{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/e940ec5e-1e0f-4803-87e8-cd399277231d-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/e940ec5e-1e0f-4803-87e8-cd399277231d-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/e940ec5e-1e0f-4803-87e8-cd399277231d-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":864,"height":818},"small":{"width":250,"height":237},"medium":{"width":640,"height":606}},"title":null,"primary":true},{"type":"playfield","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/3b04fedd-1a80-4089-b467-bec76280bb8d-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/3b04fedd-1a80-4089-b467-bec76280bb8d-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/3b04fedd-1a80-4089-b467-bec76280bb8d-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":765,"height":1008},"small":{"width":190,"height":250},"medium":{"width":486,"height":640}},"title":null,"primary":true}] used
ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name: IPDB Bally used
ipdb.corporate_entity_name: IPDB Midway Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of WMS Industries, Incorporated used
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ipdb.model_number: IPDB 50036 used
ipdb.marketing_slogans: IPDB "A pinball worthy of the name CORVETTE." "With this dream machine, there's no limit to the fun." "Test drive it at the showroom nearest you. But be prepared.You don't take this CORVETTE for a spin. It takes you." "CORVETTE is a tour de force for pinball and Corvette fans alike." "Theres a new breed of dream machine loose on the streets. CORVETTE from Bally." "One Great American Legend Deserves Another." used
ipdb.toys: IPDB Matchbox car racetrack. used
ipdb.notes: IPDB Designer George Gomez tells us about his original design for this game and of changes that were made prior to production:At the time Williams was making wide bodies and so my design began as a widebody, but it didn't get very far. No widebody whitewoods were ever built. I originally designed the game with drop targets and the code for this is still in the game. The decals said B-2-K which was the Callaway Turbo option. A 4-Speed shifter was bolted to the side of the game and was used to shift gears in the dragstrip mode. That code also is still there. Some of the prototypes were built with these features and somewhere I have photos. Numerous prototypes were built with the shifters and also I retrofitted one onto a production game. Numerous switches (ramp ends), flashers, and lights were removed, along with the targets and shifter, to get the game within the bill of materials budgets. Pictured in this listing is an example of the so-called "NCM" games, made for the National Corvette Museum located in Bowling Green, Kentucky. We were unable to reach Tom Uban for input about them, but designer George Gomez provided this information:Museum games were very early production games. They were not prototypes. The playfield that you refer to in the image is one of the 17 prototype games, several of these playfields went to the museum for display purposes. However, museum games did have the special NCM welcome message in the code, this may have been the only difference in those games, other than that they were very early in the production run. I personally sold Chip Miller his game. At the time he was one of the key guys in the ZR1 registry and many of those guys bought games from us at the museum. I don�t remember the exact number of games that we took to the museum. I believe it was either 6 or 9. One went into the gift shop where I believe it still resides. I set up displays on the design of the game including drawings, the prototype playfields, and many other development items such as models within the museum. One was in the display cases at the base of the Spire, the other was in a hallway display case near the Corvette toys exhibit in the museum. During the grand opening weekend celebration the games were operated 24 hours a day at dollar play to benefit a charity. I worked the games with some of the other members of my team promoting and exposing people to the game. With me were Tom Kopera, mechanical engineer on the game; Bill Grupp, software engineer assisting Tom Uban; Roger Sharpe, director of licensing; and Barb Rosenthal, the Bally-Williams marketing director. If memory serves, I took 3 prototype playfields with me to the museum for the grand opening. The playfields were left in the care of the museum's curators. I was disappointed to learn that somehow they were let go from the museum's collection. Someone in Bowling Green ended up with one of them, he tells me that he bought it from a museum employee. used
ipdb.notable_features: IPDB Flippers (3), Ramps (2), Engine-shaped ball shaker. Maximum 1 buy-in ball per player (operator option). used
ipdb_rating: IPDB 7.9 used
corporate_entity: Flipcommons Catalog midway-manufacturing-company-a-subsidiary-of-wms-industries-incorporated used
title: Flipcommons Catalog corvette used
slug: Flipcommons Catalog corvette used