Pinball Machines

   


   
   

After a very long year of work, this work of art is finally done. It is the most sot after and collectible gottlieb pinball machine ever made. It is the famous mermaid pinball created in april of 1951 by artist roy parker. According to gottlieb over 500 of them were made and very few of them survive today. To find one to own in this condition is impossible. The story behind this game, is that it was found in storage in florida in pieces with boxes of new parts that was bought to restore the game to brand new condition.

We assume as the original playfield was in good condition to begin with, that most of the parts and the game must have been bought at around the same time. The storage belonged to a family that had been in the business and the family member passed away. As you can see, we started from the bottom of the game and worked up and built everything using all the new old stock parts and we also used newer reproduction parts to update the game to newer performance.

This game plays fast and works like a charm. I have played 5 of these games at pinball shows in the past and nothing compares to this one. It is truly one of a kind. Mermaid has five dead bumper and two pop bumpers numbered across the playfield (1 to 7) and one red 1 point pop bumper.

The object is to unlight the seven numbered bumpers. If you do this once, the side rollover lanes go from 10,000 points(times two) to 100,000 points (times two). If you complete the seven numbered bumpers a second time, the two kick out holes go from 1 point plus 200,000 to 1 point plus 500,000. If you complete the seven numbered bumpers a third time, the two kick out holes lights for a special or free game. There is a few cool features this game made famous.

First is the animated back box which features a fisherman in a boat trying to catch a fish. Instead he gets a boot and a fish giving him the raspberry.
There is also a rollover at the top of the arch that pop up a ball saver that does not allow the ball to go between the flippers till you score 1 point.. There is also 1 set of nine rollover targets in the center of the game that scores you one point value and opens the ball save again. As i said before this is a very special piece that would be the main part of any collection or gameroom. Lastly, we are making a custom top header for the game in the form of our lovely mermaid. This will go with the game free of charge.