- credit
- Wayne Neyens — Design
- credit
- Roy Parker — Art
- gameplay_feature
- Standup Targets ×11
- gameplay_feature
- Passive Bumpers ×4
- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×2
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- D. Gottlieb & Company
- ipdb_id
- 5998
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5998/image-1.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Gottlieb
- ipdb.model_number
- 101
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers (2), Passive bumpers (4), Standup targets (11). Pressing flippers buttons shoots ball from oscillating turret shooter between flippers.
Maximum displayed point score is 999 points per player.
- ipdb.notes
- Wayne Neyens said that around November 1, 1954 he designed a turret game called 'Ricochet'. He found notes on a sketch he retained for this game, indicating "Samples were built but results on test were poor---never built".
The promo photo shown here also appeared on the front cover of GameRoom magazine of March 1999. In that issue, author and historian Gordon Hasse mentioned there was anecdotal evidence of a surviving example of this game in Canada. He later told us of someone who believed he played one in the eastern USA. Years ago, Raphael Lankar had reported to us seeing the game in a Paris arcade in 1959. The photo proves that at least one example of this game was made, typically for location testing.
We searched The Billboard and Cash Box for the years 1953-1960 and found these pictureless ads from distributors selling this game:
The Hub Enterprises, Maryland:
The Billboard, Apr-29-1957, page 84, 2-player for $175.
The Billboard, May-6-1957, page 113, 2-player for $175.
Miller-Newmark Distributing Company, Michigan:
The Billboard, May-13-1957, page 116, $175.
The Billboard, Oct-14-1957, page 95, $250.
The Billboard, Apr-14-1958, page 80, $225.
These anecdotes and ads would have to be the Sample games that were made and put on on test. One of more of them could have been the 4-player version.
See Gottlieb's 1955 'Ricochet'.
- month
- 11
- player_count
- 2
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Archery
- theme
- Riflery
- theme
- Target Practice
- year
- 1954