Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Conflicts resolved (3 fields)
- gameplay_feature
- IPDB Standup Targets ×3 used IPDB Drop Targets ×10 used IPDB Slingshots ×2 used IPDB Pop Bumpers ×2 used IPDB Flippers ×2 used
- theme
- IPDB Law Enforcement used IPDB American West Flipcommons Catalog Police used Flipcommons Catalog American West used
- credit
- IPDB Gordon Morison — Art IPDB Ed Krynski — Design Flipcommons Catalog Ed Krynski — Design used Flipcommons Catalog Gordon Morison — Art used
Sources agree (4 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- production_quantity
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 1 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 7042 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (9 fields)
- 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/7042/image-1.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-5.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-6.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-7.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-8.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-9.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-10.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-11.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-12.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-13.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-14.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A2.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A3.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A4.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A5.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A6.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A7.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A8.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A9.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A10.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A11.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A12.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A13.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/7042/image-A14.jpg"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB The game pictured here was a prototype game intended for homes sales. It has no coin door. It never went into production. Gottlieb designer John Osborne said it was already built and in the company playroom when he started at Gottlieb in 1972 and was already deemed as not intended for production. He remembers playing this game and believes it to be the only one built. He said no schematic for it was ever drawn up as the game never left the engineering department. This prototype game used the same backglass and playfield as the commercial AAB version made for Italy, Gottlieb's 1972 'Texas Ranger'. However, it was designed to have the two star rollovers in center playfield not be operational and they are not wired under the playfield. The right ball return lane was replaced with a small block of wood. Two of the three standup targets had stickers placed over the existing text in front of each target and these stickers seem to show faded remnants of replacement wording saying "1000 POINTS". No credit lamp is wired, leaving a vacant hole in the playfield under the apron. The simplified motor has fewer switches to operate. By the time this game was found in Sam Harvey's collection, it had no playfield plastic light shields and no metal apron. The backbox insert was missing all of its light bulbs. The pendulum tilt was missing. A relay's unterminated red wire laid loosely in the lower cabinet. The backbox had a few wires not laced into the cabling of the plastic-coated type which Osborne said Gottlieb would not have used. The ball trough switch was missing. used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Slingshots (2), Drop targets (10), Standup targets (3). Right side of playfield has parallel lanes of serial rollovers. Open-elbow inlane allows ball to pass from inlane to outlane and vice-versa. End-of-ball bonus. Hinged backbox. Two dummy zeroes in score. Shallow lower cabinet due to no motor board. The motor, transformer, and relays normally found on the motor board are inside the backbox. A lever under front of cabinet unlatches lockdown bar for access to inside of game. The power switch is externally located on the underside of the backbox. Sound: 2 bells, knocker used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog d-gottlieb-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog texas-ranger-prototype used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Texas Ranger (Prototype) used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog texas-ranger-prototype used