Back Tour De France

Sources

IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.

Conflicts resolved (2 fields)

gameplay_feature
IPDB Spinning Targets used IPDB Pop Bumpers ×2 used IPDB Flippers ×4 used
theme
IPDB Bicycling IPDB Sports Flipcommons Catalog Sports used Flipcommons Catalog Bicycling used

Sources agree (6 fields)

credit
Jon Norris — Design IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
system
stern-mpu-100 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
technology_generation
solid-state IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
year
1984 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
player_count
2 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
ipdb_id
4031 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog

Single source (6 fields)

ipdb.image_urls
IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/4031/Partial_Backglass.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/4031/Prototype_Playfield.jpg"] used
ipdb.notes
IPDB According to an interview published in the Pinball Trader, designer Jon Norris printed fifteen promotional flyers for this game and naturally gave them all away. We previously identified this game as 4-player but then asked Jon about it. He comments:Tour de France was indeed a 2-player game, made in 1984. The backglass had a bagatelle unit that took up a lot of space, so I had the dip switch on the CPU board set to 2-player mode. There were only two displays, plus the ball-in-play display. The game also featured full background music (prior to High Speed and Hollywood Heat) using a boom box with an endless cassette tape that was activated using the flipper-enable relay. The game was a hybrid solid state (using Stern 'Stars') and electro-mechanical (using Gottlieb step units that lit a special). used
ipdb.notable_features
IPDB Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (2), Spinning target (1). This game contained both EM relays and SS circuitry. Sound: 4 chimes. Whenever the flippers were active, a cassette player (in a boom box inside the cabinet) would play the Kraftwerk song "Tour de France" as background music. used
title
Flipcommons Catalog tour-de-france used
name
Flipcommons Catalog Tour De France used
slug
Flipcommons Catalog tour-de-france used