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| Manufacturer: | Stoner Manufacturing Company, of Aurora, Illinois, USA (1933-1941) |
| Date Of Manufacture: | November, 1939 |
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) ![[?]](/graphic/question.gif) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Fantasy - Myth and Legend |
| Specialty: | Flipperless
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| Notable Features: | 5 balls for 5 cents. Mushroom bumpers (24).
The Instruction Card states:
5 Balls 5 cents
Shoot ball with skill to go through Top Gates which will light a corresponding combination of bumpers.
All bumpers score 200 points. (Illegible) and YELLOW score 1000 points when lit.
For Amusement Only |
| Notes: | This is the earliest game to use mushroom bumpers of which we are aware.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was one of the folk tales of classic Arabic literature known collectively as The Thousand and One Nights (aka The Arabian Nights). |
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| Average Fun Rating: | ![[ 8 stars - Click for comments ]](stars/8stars.png) 7.5/10 (59 ratings/45 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: | February, 1978 |
| Model Number: | 412 |
| MPU: | Gottlieb System 1 |
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) |
| Production: | 12,000 units (confirmed) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Fantasy - Myth and Legend |
| Notable Features: | Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (2), Star rollovers (4), Standup targets (2), 3-bank drop targets (2), 4-bank drop targets (1), Spinning target (1). The white target and yellow targets are reset by one coil and the purple targets are reset by a separate coil. Each side of the spinning target depicts a sword but they are oriented differently from each other to allow the target when spinning to give the effect of crossed swords. |
| Design by: | Ed Krynski |
| Art by: | Gordon Morison |
| Notes: | The 4-player EM version of this game is Gottlieb's 1978 'Sinbad'. The 2-player EM version is Gottlieb's 1978 'Eye Of The Tiger'.
Pictures here are portions of a Sample game (serial number 01290 S) having its start button and flipper buttons made of red plastic, just like the game shown in the manufacturer's flyer. It appears that production games use green plastic for these buttons. Also, the sample card holder, while using black and orange colors unique to Sinbad, shows the words "INSERT COIN ONLY WHEN COIN ENTRANCE IS LIT" which are not found on later cardholders for this game. Sinbad was the first of the System 1 games to use this apron having the style of art shown on it.
This game was also made with the lower cabinet using metal for the entire front, entire back, and entire bottom. The sides of the cabinet were made of wood, as was the backbox. The pedestal upon which the backbox connects to the cabinet was made of metal. The serial number is stamped in the wood on the inside of the cabinet near the shooter rod. We asked Wayne Neyens about the metal cabinet. He comments: I think that it was Doc's idea but I forget. It had many draw backs, as I recall it was very noisy, hard to assemble and needed more room than we had available to do the assembly. Wayne refers to Roman F. "Doc" Garbark, head of mechanical engineering at Gottlieb.
We previously showed a date for this game of May 1978 and a production run quantity of 12,950 units. The new date and quantity are per Gottlieb documentation.
Quantity produced - domestic: 5,758
Quantity produced - export: 6,242
Total quantity produced: 12,000
The flyer indicates that this game was a direct tie-in to the 1977 Hollywood movie "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger".
Sinbad (Sindbad) the Sailor was a character in one of the folk tales of classic Arabic literature known collectively as The Thousand and One Nights (aka The Arabian Nights). |
| Photos in: |
Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas) , page 139
The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981, page 133
Encyclopedia of Pinball Volume 2, page 219
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z
Silver Knight pp. June/July 1995
Pinball The Lure of the Silverball, page 77
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| Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/2159 (External site) |
| Documentation: | 4 MB | PDF | English Manual (Availability limited by copyright) | [D. Gottlieb & Co., a Columbia Pictures Industries Company] |
| | 598 KB | PDF | Instruction Cards (Availability limited by copyright) | [D. Gottlieb & Co.] |
| Files: | 870 KB | PDF | Miscellanous Shipping Envelope Papers (Availability limited by copyright) | [D. Gottlieb & Co.] |
| | 4 MB | PDF | Score Cards (Availability limited by copyright) | [D. Gottlieb & Co.] |
| | 291 KB | PDF | Tilt Setting Card (Availability limited by copyright) | [D. Gottlieb & Co.] |
| | 2 MB | PDF | Warranty and Registration Card (Availability limited by copyright) | [D. Gottlieb & Co.] |
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| Average Fun Rating: | 7.9/10 (9 ratings/6 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, 1978 |
| Model Number: | 412 |
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) |
| Production: | 952 units (confirmed) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Fantasy - Myth and Legend |
| Notable Features: | Flippers (4), Pop bumpers (2), Star rollovers (4), Standup targets (2), 3-bank drop targets (2), 4-bank drop targets (1), Spinning target (1). The white target and yellow targets are reset by one coil and the purple targets are reset by a separate coil. All drop targets reset only at start of next ball, whether same player or the next player. Each side of the spinning target depicts a sword but they are oriented differently from each other to allow the target when spinning to give the effect of crossed swords. End-of-ball bonus. |
| Design by: | Ed Krynski |
| Art by: | Gordon Morison |
| Notes: | The 2-player EM version of this game is Gottlieb's 1978 'Eye Of The Tiger'. The 4-player SS version is Gottlieb's 1978 'Sinbad'.
We previously showed a date for this game of May 1978. The new date is per Gottlieb documentation.
Gottlieb Domestic & Export Sales Sheets for Sinbad: 950 total
Domestic Sales: 159
Export Sales: 791
The above total does not include 2 Sample games produced in 1977 per handwritten documentation identified by Wayne Neyens as coming from Bob Malvasio, a draftsman for Gottlieb whose initials RHM can be found on schematics.
Sinbad (Sindbad) the Sailor was a character in one of the folk tales of classic Arabic literature known collectively as The Thousand and One Nights (aka The Arabian Nights). |
| Photos in: |
The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981, page 133
Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book S-Z
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| Documentation: | 2 MB | PDF | Low Quality Schematic Scans (Availability limited by copyright) | [D. Gottlieb & Co.] |
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| Manufacturer: | Europlay, of Italy |
| Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Fantasy - Myth and Legend |
| Specialty: | Add-A-Ball
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| Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshot (1), Drop targets (10), Star rollovers (3), Standup targets (2), Spinning target (1). Special scores replay or 3 million points (operator option).
Sound: electronic including biri-biri, knocker |
| Notes: | The playfield is a redesign of Gottlieb's 1978 'Sinbad', and the backglass shows a longer name of 'Sinbad Adventures'. Other pinball reference materials indicate a 4-player Solid State version named 'Sinbad' was produced cooperatively in 1979 by Europlay and Bell Games.
The Italian magazine ad in this listing shows this Europlay game having the black score reels used by Gottlieb in the late 1970's to give a digital scoring effect to the display. Also, the cabinet has the name incorrectly spelled as "Simbad". We asked Federico Croci, a collector in Italy, to comment on this. He replies:
"I've never seen 'Sinbad' equipped with those black score reels except for the one featured in the magazine ad. Actually, those Gottlieb black score reels were not popular and were always removed, even on the original Gottlieb games that were produced with them installed.
"Also, the 'Simbad' doesn't exist. It was a misspelling on the cabinet of the sample game used for the photo of the ad. If you look closely at the ad, you can read the name on the backglass, which was 'Sinbad'. They also misspelled the name in the text of the ad, but that's not an official ad, just a page from a local reseller of the game, which I suppose reprinted the sample photo received from the manufacturer, the one with the misspelled name, and so they printed it wrong in the ad."
Sinbad (Sindbad) the Sailor was a character in one of the folk tales of classic Arabic literature known collectively as The Thousand and One Nights (aka The Arabian Nights). |
| Owners List URL: | http://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/owners-list/manufacturers/europlay-rmg/sinbad-sinbad-adventures/ (External site) |
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| Average Fun Rating: | 8.2/10 (303 ratings/179 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ]
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| Manufacturer: | Williams Electronics Games, Incorporated, a subsidiary of WMS Ind.,
Incorporated (1985-1999) [Trade Name: Williams] |
| Date Of Manufacture: | May, 1996 |
| Model Number: | 50047 |
| Common Abbreviations: | ToTAN |
| MPU: | Williams WPC-95 |
| Type: | Solid State Electronic (SS) |
| Production: | 3,128 units (confirmed) |
| Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) |
| Theme: | Fantasy - Myth and Legend |
| Notable Features: | Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), Electromagnets (3), Spinning posts (2), Captive balls (2), Newton ball posts (2), Kick-out hole (1), 2- 3- and 4-ball multiball, Shooter lane skill shot. The top of each flipper inlane has a circle of metal "spikes" that can rise up from within the playfield to temporarily encircle the ball and stop it from exiting the outlane. |
| Toys: | Lamp on top of spinning posts.
Genie bash toy. |
| Design by: | John Popadiuk |
| Art by: | Pat McMahon |
| Dots/Animation by: | Adam Rhine, Brian Morris |
| Mechanics by: | Jack Skalon, Ernie Pizarro, Joe Loveday |
| Music by: | Dave Zabriskie |
| Sound by: | Dave Zabriskie |
| Software by: | Louis Koziarz |
| Notes: | Arabian Nights is the English name for the Arabic-language collection of Middle Eastern folk tales known as One Thousand and One Nights. |
| Marketing Slogans: |
"Your Wish is Granted."
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| Photos in: |
The Complete Pinball Book, pages 11 and 234
The Pinball Compendium 1982 to Present, page 218
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| Rule Sheets: |
Tales Of The Arabian Nights Rulesheet Version 1.2 (Jun/23/1997), by Joshua Lehan
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| Easter Eggs: | Available at Cows and Easter Eggs (External site) |
| ROMs: | 370 KB | ZIP | Game ROM V0.4 | [Williams Electronic Games, Inc.] |
| | 422 KB | ZIP | Game ROM V1.4 | [Williams Electronic Games, Inc.] |
| | 1 MB | ZIP | Sound ROM V1.1 | [Williams Electronic Games, Inc.] |
| | 2 MB | ZIP | Sound ROMs V1.0 | [Williams Electronic Games, Inc.] |
| Documentation: | 9 MB | PDF | Operations Manual (English, May 1996, Final) | [Williams Electronics Games, Inc.] |
| | 975 KB | PDF | Operators Handbook (May 1996) | [Williams Electronics Games, Inc.] |
| | 195 KB | TXT | Parts List | |
| | 18 MB | PDF | WPC-95 Schematic Manual (July 1, 1997) | [Williams Electronic Games Inc.] |
| Service Bulletins: | 8 KB | PDF | Service Bulletin #91 (Improper wire dressing on the vanishing magnet assembly) | [Williams Electronics Games, Inc.] |
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