- credit
- Ed Krynski — Design
- credit
- Art Stenholm — Art
- gameplay_feature
- Flippers ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Pop Bumpers ×3
- gameplay_feature
- Hold-Over Vari-Targets ×2
- gameplay_feature
- Kick-Out Holes ×2
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- D. Gottlieb & Company
- ipdb_id
- 2189
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/2189f1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/2189/image-12.jpg"]
- ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
- Gottlieb
- ipdb.model_number
- 279
- ipdb.notable_features
- Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Kick-out holes (2), Hold-over vari-targets (2), Rotating arrow bumper.
Unlike other games, the vari-targets did not score and reset upon being hit. Instead, each target remained in its hit position until a ball landing in the adjacent kick-out hole collected the Target Value. An operator adjustment determined if the vari-targets would reset after each ball or after each game. If reset after each game, they became a carry-over feature from player to player. Repeated hits by either player could increase Target Value until collected.
Maximum displayed point score is 9,999 points per player.
Sound: 3 chimes, knocker.
- ipdb.notes
- The flyer for 'Skipper' indicates new "multi-tone chimes" were used. The game that preceded it in production, Mibs, used bells. This would establish 'Skipper' as Gottlieb's first game using the three-chime assembly. The schematic for this game identifies a 'ones' chime, a 'tens' chime, and a 'hundreds' chime.
We previously showed a date for this game of November 1969. The new date is per Gottlieb documentation.
- ipdb_rating
- 6.9
- month
- 11 → 10
- player_count
- 4
- production_quantity
- 1675
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Water Sports
- year
- 1969