- credit
- Wayne Neyens — Design
- credit
- Roy Parker — Art
- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×4
- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×6
- gameplay_feature
- Rollunders ×4
- gameplay_feature
- Passive Bumpers
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- D. Gottlieb & Company
- ipdb_id
- 2130
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/Backglass.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/Playfield.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/Playfield2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/2130f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-14.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-15.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-16.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-17.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-18.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-19.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2130/image-20.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Gottlieb
- ipdb.model_number
- 177
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (6), Passive bumper (1), Rollunders (4). The left flipper button operates the left-side pair of flippers. The right flipper button operates the right-side pair of flippers. Scoring A-B-C will light a second match number to appear at end of game. Backglass has a "Score To Beat" window allowing the operator to place a card behind the backglass showing a suggested high score visible to the player.
Maximum displayed point score is 1,999 points.
- ipdb.notes
- Another game that allows the player to earn a second match number is Gottlieb's 1961 'Big Casino'.
We previously showed a date for this game of March 1961. The new date is per Gottlieb documentation.
Based on Edna Ferber's 1926 novel of the same name, Show Boat has been on Broadway and film several times each from 1927 to 1994.
- ipdb_rating
- 7.2
- month
- 3 → 4
- player_count
- 1
- production_quantity
- 1950
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Boats
- theme
- American History
- year
- 1961