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Date	*Name (Click to display that game)*	MFG	Type	Prod.	Specialty	Pl.	Model	Pics	Rating
1985	Le Grand 8	Christian Tabar...	SS	100	Conversion Kit	4p		16
1980-06	Panthera	Gottlieb	SS	5,220	Widebody	4p	652	29	6.8

Le Grand 8 / IPD No. 3916 / 1985 / 4 Players

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Average Fun Rating:

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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)

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

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]

Images:
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Cabinet - Front View 564x1142 [Riffhard]	Cabinet - Left 444x474 [Riffhard]	Backglass 856x864	Playfield 672x896	Backglass 1024x858 [Philippe Thibault]
Flyer 1200x1652	Flyer 1200x1652	Manufacturer Stickers 1025x427	Captive Ball in Left Lane* 1200x1093 [Alain Jaffart]	Captive Ball in Center Lanes* 1200x1234 [Alain Jaffart]
Captive Ball in Right Lane 1200x800 [Alain Jaffart]	Artist Signature on Backglass 981x666 [Alain Jaffart]	Artist Signature on Playfield 1200x625 [Alain Jaffart]	Illuminated Playfield 900x1200 [Pascal Poulain]	Flyer - Front 1200x1730 [Claude Verpy]
Flyer - Back 1200x1717 [Claude Verpy]

Panthera / IPD No. 1745 / June, 1980 / 4 Players

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Average Fun Rating:

6.8/10 (24 ratings/21 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]

Manufacturer:

D. Gottlieb & Company, a Columbia Pictures Industries Company (1977-1983)
[Trade Name: Gottlieb]

Date Of Manufacture:

June, 1980

Model Number:

652

MPU:

Gottlieb System 80

Type:

Solid State Electronic (SS)

Production:

5,220 units (confirmed)

Serial Number Database:

View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site)

Theme:

Fantasy

Specialty:

Widebody

Notable Features:

Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Slingshots (3), 4-bank drop targets (3), Standup target (1), Kick-out hole (1), Rollunder spinner (1).

Design by:

Ed Krynski

Art by:

Doug Watson

Notes:

We incorrectly listed the designer as Allen Edwall. Allen told us he was mainly involved with this game only because he and Tom DeFotis were trouble-shooting a "nasty bug" in one of the hardware timer chips made by Rockwell. Allen believes the designer was either Ed Krynski or John Buras. Buras told us his best recollection is that the designer was Ed Krynski. Buras adds that he (Buras) may have written the software for the prototype but is not sure who wrote the final version.

Photos in:

Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas) External Link

, page 140
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book G-R

Owners List URL:

http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/1745 (External site)

ROMs:

9 KB

ZIP

PinMAME Romset (Availability limited by copyright)

9 KB

ZIP

ROMs (Availability limited by copyright)

[D. Gottlieb & Co.]

Documentation:

2 MB

PDF

English Manual (Availability limited by copyright)

[D. Gottlieb & Co.]

Files:

67 KB

ZIP

Reproduction Score and Instruction Cards (Availability limited by copyright)

[Inkochnito]

Images:
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Flyer, Front 884x1150	Flyer, Page 2 884x1150	Flyer, Page 3 884x1150	Flyer, Back 884x1150	Backglass 400x400 [Bruno Durand]
Playfield 1024x1365 [Scott Morash]	Machine 1024x1696 [Scott Morash]	Upper Playfield 1024x768 [Scott Morash]	Middle Playfield 1024x768 [Scott Morash]	Lower Playfield 1024x768 [Scott Morash]
Backglass - Detail 400x300 [Bruno Durand]	Backbox 671x717 [Jim Palson]	Inside Backbox 1024x768 [Jim Palson]	Backbox - Right 583x1019 [Jim Palson]	Backbox - Left 537x1020 [Jim Palson]
Cabinet - Right 1024x768 [Jim Palson]	Cabinet - Left 1024x768 [Jim Palson]	Machine 538x991 [Jim Palson]	Coin Door 1024x768 [Jim Palson]	Under Playfield 541x999 [Jim Palson]
Inside Cabinet 1024x768 [Jim Palson]	Backglass 1200x1219 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Backbox - Right 643x1600 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Cabinet - Right 1024x365 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Cabinet - Front 1024x640 [Jean-Pierre Renault]
Cabinet - Front View 1200x2239 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Illuminated Front View 910x1600 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Illuminated Backglass 1200x1132 [Jean-Pierre Renault]	Instruction Card - 3 Balls 1200x844 [Jean-Pierre Renault]

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