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On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 10:25:38 AM UTC-7,
sassi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday, August 1, 2010 at 11:29:31 AM UTC-4, William Brower wrote:
Hey Guys,
I just picked up this rare gem of a game only 350 made, Gottlieb's
Extra Inning. Not an add-a-ball nor a replay game. Strange it counts
the balls as innings. Playfield is nice, some flaking of the backglass
and the cabinet's paint is peeling pretty bad. I have not set it up
yet. Anyone have any more Info?.
All I know about this game is what I've read on the IPBD. http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=extra+inning&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick#801
Production: 350 units (confirmed)
Serial Number Database: View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site)
Theme: Sports - Baseball
Specialty: Novelty Play
Notable Features: Flippers (2), Slingshots (2), Vari-targets (2),
Standup targets (8). No pop bumpers. Ball enters playfield from
between the flippers when right flipper button is pressed. Bounce-back outlanes allow the player to nudge a draining ball back into play.
Maximum displayed point score is 9,999 points.
Design by: Ed Krynski
Art by: Gordon Morison
Notes: This game has no replay unit or add-a-ball unit. While its apron is similar to add-a-ball games made for export to Italy,
Federico Croci, a collector in Italy, tells us that he has never seen
this game there. He also provides these studied observations:
1) Italian versions did not use printing such as "insert coin only
when coin entrance is lit", or "credit when lit" around the credit
light. The word 'credit' was forbidden on games in Italy.
2) Italian add-a-ball games typically have five similar objects in the
art of the backglass to count added balls, but they are not present
here, and there is no stepping unit shown in the backbox picture to
count added balls.
3) This game has a four-digit score which is quite low for a 1971 Italian-version game. Operators in Italy by this time were modifying
old four-digit games into five digit games, and newly built games for
Italy were coming out with 5 digits.
4) Gottlieb's factory address was never included in full in the
playfield or in the backglass in the export games. Here, it is
displayed on the apron.
Reportedly, this game was made for New York in light of its
restrictive laws regarding pinball at the time, in the fashion of Gottlieb's 1971 'Bristol Hills'. It was produced just after Gottlieb's
1971 'Playball' and had a playfield quite similar except without pop bumpers. The fact of its Novelty Play format, its lack of pop bumpers,
the apron not having the word 'flipper', and the backglass indicating
only 'Innings' instead of 'Ball In Play' may have been attempts to
downplay or differentiate this game from contemporary pinball
machines.
How exactly is the add a ball function Set? Where is the adjustment made on the machine? I have Extra Inning. I just got it running, but I can't find the add a ball adjustment. I also have a schematic but cannot find the add a ball. They probably wanted to keep it quiet given the purpose of this machine. Thanks!!
It's been a while I went through one, but I'm thinking there's a plug-in
adjustment in the head to determine how many runs to achieve an extra
inning which would actually be a 6th ball. I remember setting mine so if
21 runs was reached before the end of ball 5, you would get that extra 6th
inning (ball)..
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