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Sources

OPDB and IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.

Conflicts resolved (3 fields)

gameplay_feature
IPDB Kick-Out Holes ×2 used IPDB Standup Targets ×10 used IPDB Slingshots ×4 used IPDB Pop Bumpers ×2 used IPDB Flippers ×2 used
theme
IPDB Ice Skating IPDB Sports Flipcommons Catalog Sports used Flipcommons Catalog Ice Skating used
credit
IPDB Roy Parker — Art IPDB Wayne Neyens — Design Flipcommons Catalog Wayne Neyens — Design used Flipcommons Catalog Roy Parker — Art used

Sources agree (9 fields)

display_type
backglass-lights OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
technology_generation
electromechanical OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
player_count
1 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
month
3 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
year
1951 OPDB, IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
opdb_id
GRVJw-MJprP OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
name
Happy-Go-Lucky OPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
production_quantity
600 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
ipdb_id
1120 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog

Single source (10 fields)

opdb.images
OPDB [{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/f3c35f55-0e31-4fdf-822e-ec702b5353c4-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/f3c35f55-0e31-4fdf-822e-ec702b5353c4-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/f3c35f55-0e31-4fdf-822e-ec702b5353c4-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":400,"height":592},"small":{"width":169,"height":250},"medium":{"width":400,"height":592}},"title":"Backglass","primary":true}] used
ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
IPDB Gottlieb used
ipdb.corporate_entity_name
IPDB D. Gottlieb & Company used
ipdb.image_urls
IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/Backglass.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/Side_View.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/1120f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-20.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-21.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-22.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-23.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-24.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-25.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-29.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1120/image-26.png"] used
ipdb.model_number
IPDB 48 used
ipdb.notes
IPDB The game in the flyer shows a thin fixed post in the flipper gap, looking more like a peg, encased in a hard plastic sleeve similar to the type used for switch stack insulation. Gottlieb's previous game having a Safety Gate, Knock Out, shows a peg in the flipper gap in its flyer. The next game with a Safety Gate after Happy Go Lucky is Mermaid, and the flyer game shows the familiar rubber-ringed plastic post in the gap. Steve Young tells us that the peg post was used on Happy-Go-Lucky only for the sample games while production games used the regular plastic post with rubber ring. The flyer game also has extra long flippers whereas the production games for which we have pictures all have shorter flippers, with rubbered posts to make up for the difference in flipper length. Designer Wayne Neyens had a machinist make these longer flippers from metal. Although they appeared on the game in the flyer, he tells us they did not appear on production games, saying Gottlieb "didn't go much for innovation in those days". In our Files section are copies of Wayne's original sketches for this new flipper design, showing it measured more than 3 1/16 inches in length, as well as copies of additional Gottlieb information on this prototype large flipper. The backglass uses musical notes to show the name of this game as hyphenated. The schematic also hyphenates the name, while the flyer and instruction card do not. Wayne told us his original name for this Model 48 game was "Ten Little Indians" (his sketch indicates "10 Little Indians") to go with the sequences of ten on the playfield. See also Model 39, Gottlieb's 1950 'Ten Little Indians'. used
ipdb.notable_features
IPDB Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Slingshots (4), Standup targets (10), Kick-out holes (2). V-shaped Safety Gate raises to close wide gap between flippers. Sound: 2 bells, knocker. used
corporate_entity
Flipcommons Catalog d-gottlieb-company used
title
Flipcommons Catalog happy-go-lucky used
slug
Flipcommons Catalog happy-go-lucky used