- credit
- Jean Amiot — Art
- gameplay_feature
- Standup Targets ×3
- gameplay_feature
- Slingshots ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×4
- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×2
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Renov' Automatic - Jolux
- ipdb_id
- 5017
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5017/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5017/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5017/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5017/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5017/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5017/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5017/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5017/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5017/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5017/image-10.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- J. Martina
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (4), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (3).
- ipdb.notes
- This is a conversion of Gottlieb's 1964 'Ship-Mates'. The playfield design resembles the playfield of Williams' 1967 'Jolly Roger'.
A source familiar with this game reports the following: Only the first few conversion games made retained the drop-down cabinet design. After a few models, Martina began sawing off the lowered cabinet section to modernize the look of the machine and to make it more attractive.
A different source tells us that Martina used for their conversion whatever used cabinets they had available or could get, whether the cabinets had the drop-down front or not.
More information is needed to confirm what Martina did or didn't do regarding their cabinets.
We believe the Gottlieb card holder shown in the game pictured here was added by a collector/restorer. The French magazine ad (shown here) presents a game with an older card holder like that shown on the source game, Ship-Mates. It also shows the Ship-Mates drop-down cabinet design.
- player_count
- 4
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Historical Characters
- year
- 1969