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| Manufacturer: | Christian Automatic, of Montgeron, France
(1984-1986) [Trade Name: Christian Tabart] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | 1985 |
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) ![[?]](/graphic/question.gif) |
| Production: | 100 units (confirmed) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Amusement Park - Roller Coasters |
| Specialty: | Conversion Kit
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| Notable Features: | Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshot (1), 4-bank drop targets (3), Standup targets (2), Star rollovers (14), Spinning target (1), Kick-out hole (1).
The center playfield has a captive ball looping lane feature simulating a roller coaster. The captive ball can travel between the left, center, and right lanes of this enclosed area. When the captive ball comes to rest against the curved rail in the center area, the ball in play hitting the rail will knock the captive ball into motion. |
| Art by: | Agnès G. Dusaugey |
| Notes: | This game is a conversion kit of Gottlieb's 1980 'Panthera'. According to a translation given us for the manufacturer's color flyer, this kit contained:
• Playfield with game rules and score sheets.
• Specific ball for the captive ball feature.
• Game memory exclusive to Le Grand 8.
• Grand 8 sound board.
• Safety glass backglass respecting the Gottlieb thickness.
• Backbox inside panel with bulbs, wiring, score displays and logical cards.
• Set of cabinet decorations that fits all 80 models.
Some examples of this game had the Gottlieb backbox with the "infinity lighting" while others had a conventional backbox without this lighting.
Claude Verpy, a collector in France and a good friend of the manufacturer, passed along this information:
Christian Tabart told me that Le Grand 8 was based on Panthera and 100 machines were produced. Christian had the kits made and delivered to his workshops in Montgeron, France. Operators who were interested had to bring him the machine(s) they wanted to be transformed and the job was done by Christian's employees.
If someone brought a Mars God of War or Volcano to convert, the backbox was kept as it was with the infinity lights. If it was another model, then there was only the new backglass to put in. The type of backbox depended on the machine that the operator provided.
Shown in this listing are two stickers which Tabart affixed to the aprons of the machines he operated in bars to identify himself as the owner and to advertise his company.
Agnès Dusaugey did the artwork for the backglass and playfield. In our Files section is a letter from her describing how she got involved in the making of this game. |
| Files: | 2 MB | PDF | Color Flyer and English Translation | [Christian Automatic / Claude Verpy] |
| | 80 KB | PDF | Letter from Artist (dated 2013) | [Agnès Dusaugey] |
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| Average Fun Rating: | ![[ 7 stars - Click for comments ]](stars/7stars.png) 7.3/10 (35 ratings/26 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]
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| Manufacturer: | D. Gottlieb & Company, a Columbia Pictures Industries Company (1977-1983)
[Trade Name: Gottlieb] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | March, 1981 |
| Model Number: | 666 |
| Common Abbreviations: | MGOW |
| MPU: | Gottlieb System 80 |
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) |
| Production: | 5,240 units (confirmed) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Mythology |
| Specialty: | Widebody
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| Notable Features: | Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (4), Slingshot (1), 4-bank drop targets (2), Kick-out holes (2), Spinning target (1), Standup target (1), Multiball. Has Speech. The Last Chance feature (operator option) releases locked balls into play when the last ball drains via either the left or right outlane rollover. |
| Design by: | John Buras |
| Art by: | David Moore |
| Software by: | John Buras |
| Notes: | First Gottlieb game with speech, generated by a Votrax SC-01.
The spaceships depicted on the game's playfield, playfield plastics, and backglass are remarkably similar to a preliminary production artwork drawing of a snowspeeder for The Empire Strikes Back film, drawn by Star Wars concept artist, Joe Johnston, in February 1978. An image of the drawing was published in the book "The Empire Strikes Back Sketchbook", released in June 1980, which was shortly after the movie's release in May 1980. |
| Marketing Slogans: |
"The mighty warrior of the gods challenges you."
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| Photos in: |
Flip! Flash! Pinball Art, Items 23 and 24
Arcade Treasures , page 155
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book G-R
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| Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/1549 (External site) |
| ROMs: | 12 KB | ZIP | PinMAME Romset (Availability limited by copyright) | |
| Documentation: | 10 MB | PDF | Instruction Manual (includes schematics) (Availability limited by copyright) | [Gottlieb Amusement Games] |
| Files: | 890 KB | PDF | Flyer - How to play MARS, god of war (Availability limited by copyright) | [Gottlieb Amusement Games] |
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