1966 Gottlieb Dancing Lady Pinball Machine - Beautiful Old School E.M. Design

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another fantastic video for you this evening this is a really unique game this is a fairly rare well hell no for rares the right word but if fairly you don't see too often got the pinball machine this one's called dancing lady 1966 this is an interesting one this was this was one of their machines where they had just changed a lot of the way they were doing things previous and so this was the first model that had the new features on it so it there's some little things I'll show you that they changed but this is a really neat game we're really excited about getting this one up and running because we've had it for quite a while we bought this probably four years ago maybe five years ago from an operator who's local here and it's got a this came out in 1966 and it's got a 1970 tax tag on it and from from what we understand this thing has been in storage in a warehouse since about 1970 1971 the early 70s and this video has been shot in 2016 so this thing has been packed away for 45 years and we got it going again so we're kind of proud of that I'll show you what's going on with it it's a neat game and it's dominated by this neat little feature that it's got in the back glass that will show off a little bit but again it's 1966 and this was kind of a plain-looking game at least on the the cabinet art you know I think King of Diamonds has a similar has similar art on the side of the cabinet I'm positive about that maybe I should have looked at up before I told you that but you folks can go look look it up but uh it's a four-player of course got lips for player dancing lady it's a very kind of you know it was a different time 1966 was a little bit different than where we are now but it's a very kind of classy looking game here's the tax sticker I was talking about 1970 and I it may have been operated after that but knowing the operator who's passed away now knowing the operator knowing the way he had stuff stored and talking to him a little bit about some of the stuff I don't think it was I think this thing's been in storage since the early 70s because if you think about it this is this was one of the games with the little 2-inch flippers if you think about it soon after this the 3-inch flippers came out and everything had three inch flippers so this would have been retired it just wouldn't have been making any money anymore so they locked it away we found a couple things bad on it messed up on it that uh that word almost like they were damaged like a the ball count unit and stuff like that so it could have been that they somebody broke the game trying to fix something and they just left it in storage for a while yeah you know they never actually got it going after that but it's kind of nice look to it the cabinets kind of plain but everything else is pretty sharp but this was the first one that they did their little thing that they do where the light the ball lights are here so it says game over and then it'll light up ball one ball two ball three ball four ball five this was the first got looked like that they changed the design of the cabinet a little bit made the back box a little taller than they were before and this was the first one that had ball lift on a Gottlob now if you know a lot about pinball machines you know all of this I'm not trying to bore anybody but for the people that aren't into these really old ones I like going into detail about them because they're so cool but a lot of people have no appreciation for him so but before this model of God lived though all of the Gottlieb's had you had to manually lift the ball so you know how you hit start on a pinball machine in the ball pops out not always back in the day it wasn't like that you would hit start and then there was a lever right here and you would push that lever in and it would make the ball pop up and then you would shoot it so it had to there was this and then there was a lever beneath the shooter too but this was the first one that didn't have that and then another feature that was unique to this one was this little carousel unit so right in the middle of the playfield they have these little targets that spin around on a platter now before this Gottlob had a roto target unit isn't a bunch of games that's really popular that is basically it's mounted flat like this so it spins like that and the targets the the different targets pop up in the windows you know so that you can hit it with the ball well this is the same concept but it's flat it's like a like a platter with the little targets sticking up that you can hit so as you can see you can hit all five of these targets very cool we had - this thing was what happens on these and I think on the road targets - but what happens on these is that they get hit so much the ball since it's round always hits the target at the exact same spot so these targets always get like a the paint worn off in a line all the way across the front and if you look close enough you can see even in this video that I've repainted that but they didn't they don't make the decals for this particular game because it's not a real popular game they make replacement decals for some of them but on this one we just had to go back in and hand paint everything that was missing the white and the black and then the red on the star here but we got it looking pretty good we're kind of proud of that too very cool so we look at the art a little bit check out this back glass so at the top it says manufactured by God looking company I got the flipper skill game and we've talked before about how the skill the flippers were added to these games you know a few years prior to this to make it where it had a motive a skill component to it because if a game had a skill component to it it wasn't considered gambling in some states which was a big problem where it basically if a pinball machine was considered a gambling device they wouldn't let people operate them so the flipper was invented to give you a little bit of skill where you could control the ball a little bit so that it could be legal and of course it was manufactured in Chicago Illinois where most of em balls weren't the little five that's lit up is the match number that's on right now so those are all across the top 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and then you get your first player second layer third player fourth player now if you look at the first player window here if you look really close you can see the outline of a numeral one so the way they designed this was there are three score rules you actually get one point for some things you know this is back before points now you get ten million points so if you hit like you know the stand-up switch back then you got one point if you hit the stand switch so your scores weren't super high but if you got over a thousand when this rolled up to nine it would light a little light here with a 1 on it you can't light it - you can't light a zero with just a 1 so if you get over a thousand points the 1 will come one and these will reset back to zero so you can get 19 hundred and 99 points now I don't know if you after you roll that passed I'll bet the one stays on one but I don't know I haven't tried that yet and then in the background what this game is basically based on is people are at a theater watching a ballerina dance on stage so in the in the on the backlash you have all this art of these people well-dressed you know and they're evening wear and everything you can see the curtains in the background where they're at a theater you got this guy down here and then you can see she doesn't look that impressed he looks like he's enjoying the show as is his wife and then you see the people here they're coming down the steps in this big ballroom or whatever yeah it's 1966 something like this there's no way in hell they would design something like this now it just wouldn't sell but and this one may not sold I don't know but it's an interesting design and then you have this so you've got this little figurine in there that's a little ballerina and there are little footlights here that lighter up and then there's this metallic thing behind her that almost looks like like she's on a stage like that's a curtain behind her or something and all this ballerina does is while you're playing at certain parts basically whenever the score motor turns one of the one of the cams hits a switch that spends an electric motor that's on the ballerina and has her spin around so she'll spin this way and then it'll tighten up and then she'll spin back the other way and she just does that while you're playing so you might say why in the world would they do that it doesn't even doesn't even help the game or anything well are you sure about that I mean it's kind of cool right so if you had an entire lineup of games let's say you had you know 10 games in a row and this one had a little ballerina in the back of it you might try it out just see what it does you know so it doesn't really do anything special and it's you don't earn any points for making the ballerina do anything or anything like that and it's literally just a little plastic figure but uh it's kind of neat I mean it's kind of it's it's neat that they took the trouble to go through it and make that happen so that's the back last of the playfield is dominated by this large ballerina figure here in the middle who's wearing the same dress basically that the girl in the back is and you've got this same kind of setup you've got curtains draped around the top of the play field and then on the plastics you've got you know people dressed up like they're out to a ball another ballerina another ballerina it's just got a neat look too it's got nice colors and things and then here on the center plastic you've got two people applauding the ballerina and she's doing her of curtsy so I'm pretty neat I like it it's kind of cool it's old-school that what's not the like now like I said it has the little 2-inch flippers it's got a pretty cool little the gameplay is pretty cool they've got a neat little thing I'll show you so let's read the instructions instructions one two three or four players three balls per player now you can change this to five balls if you want we always put them on three ball a lot of people prefer the EMS to have five ball but I just like the three ball games insert one coin and wait for a machine to reset before inserting point for additional players players take turns shooting as shown on back glass so basically you know whenever you light up to your turn top rollovers score 50 points or 100 points when lit so that's up here so those just alternate back and forth so those two are on now after you score a point the other two will be one and those two will be off so it just goes back and forth so the ones that are lit up give you a hundred the ones that aren't give you fifty star has a value of one all right the star is on the roto target now it's right now it's the star is right in the center but it this hole there wrote a target goes all the way behind here setters like you know twelve different targets or whatever and so that target their star there's only one it'll disappear behind here and then come back around and you've got fours twos threes twos ones points are scored has indicated so it says all over the plate field pretty much what everything scores a tilt does not disqualify a player so what that means is if you tilt you just lose that ball you don't lose your it doesn't knock you where you can't play anymore some games it did so that's why they specified matching last number in score to number that appears on back glass after game is over scores one where you play all right so they don't really get into how to play everything that much but it's kind of neat so you go through the top and you have to fall through one of those four and then you fall under the pot bumpers now on the side there is a red and yellow target on the left and a red and yellow target on the right now if you hit those you get ten points as it says and it says it lights the corresponding bumpers so if you hit the red target it lights up both of the Reds if you hit the yellow target on either side it lights up both of the yellows so you don't have to hit all four you can just end either one so the top bumpers give you one point where they give you ten points if they're lit up simple enough that's like that on everything you've got a little rubber here that you can hit gives you one point you've got one of there you can hit the gauge at one point and then over here if you fall down the side Lane you get 50 points and it spins the roto target and the same over here 50 points and it spins the roto target now all the bumpers hmm I guess that resets the the lights I didn't think about that that's interesting I'll have to play that and make sure that's what it does but it looks like whenever you go through there it turns off the bumpers which makes where these are only worth one point again I'm not right about that Oh we'll have to won't have to play it a little bit to make sure of it because bumpers are usually these down here so I don't know what other pop bumpers so I guess that's what it's saying we'll figure it out all right now you have these two saucers on the side and so ten times and spin the roto target when lit they're not talking about this light this light is telling you that this whole is worth 15 points literally 15 points or 10 or just five if that's lit up but if this whole is lit up - that can illuminate if that's then you get 10 times whatever this says so you would get 150 points and it would also spin the roto target around now if it spins the roto target you don't score anything it just spins it and gives you different numbers because you might not like how it's set up here so you like you might have a lot of ones or something where you're not it's not worth a bunch of points so you want to get a 5 up or the star up and then over here you've got the same exact name ten times the spin roto when lit so whenever you hit the yellow or red pop bumpers or if you hit this left sling that says red advance or this right sling that says yellow advance it moves these little lit up numbers here in the middle so this is pretty this is kind of interesting the way they did this so if I hit this for right now I get four points but if I hit the two since the tens lit up I get 20 points right now if the red and the yellow line up like if that red was underneath this I would get 20 points times 10 I get 200 points so you can actually get 500 points if the fives out and both of them are lined up on it so it's kind of fun that it does that because these are always moving and it makes it where this roto target is always worth different scores so it's constantly changing what what it's worth and then the star is interesting so in the middle there's this light here hitting star Awards extra ball when lit so sometimes this light lights up and it just depends on basically what's advanced and the little I guess it's like a there's a little bonus unit or something an alternating relay inside other some kind of some kind of little unit that changes it to make it kind of random I think it's every two or three times that lights up so if that's lit up and the star is rotated around where you can see it and hit it if you hit the star you get a free ball and so the way they do a free ball on these old ones is they light up this light that says same player shoots again when lit so that's it's a pretty cool another thing too if you lose the ball out the out lanes you get the roto value when lit so if you go on this when you get a if you go on this when you get B C or D which is the numbers on the top of the roto target a B C or D so for instance if you lost it down spilling and that was lit right now you would get 20 points 2 times 10 which is the B value fun little game I'll set the tripod and I'll show you the first I'll show you the back glass I'll show you the little dancing lady dancing a little bit and then I will play a game with it on the play field so you can just see how it goes be back in just a second alright folks I'll play a quick little game just so you can see what the little lady does in the back while you're playing basically she's on the score motor so whenever the score motor turns as you advance the sport motor for anything it spins her around a little bit and she starts dancing like that but you can do lots of things where you get points and stuff and she doesn't move but if it involves the score motor turning it makes her spin so that's what it's doing when you're looking at the play field alright first of all we'll try it out a little bit now if you look really close you'll see the ballerina spinning around right here reflecting in the glass also this light says hitting star Awards extra ball when lit so if I get if I have the good fortune to hit the store while that's lit up and you'll see that go on and off I will get a extra phone now this is a two inch flipper game so you don't get you don't get a ton of action out of the flippers because there I just don't have as much of a swing that little he just heard the year just heard the tik tik because I went down Dee so I went down D which is score D on the reel here which is two so it was tick tick two points now you'll hear a ding ding ding which is ten points so if I would have went down see I would have scored C which is three points but at the times tens lit so would ago it would have went ding ding ding now if that times 10 and this times 10 had lined up you would have heard dum-dum-dum there's like a bell that rings it for a hundred so the tick is one point that ding is ten points and the the bell sound is 100 points like that oh did I get it I got it same player shoots again when lit now the way they made that with it there's a little switch right up here in the in the run Outlander what do they call it there's a switch right there and it's only purpose is whenever you go over that switch it's going to know that the ball is back on play and it will turn off that light dundun 20 points Bevers on the phones just gonna have to wait stop my crawling back Oh game over let's try it one more time watch your spin it's a cool little game I mean you know what it is have a little English on the ball there oh right past me 100 points and it skips all the pop bumpers yeah straight out the side so you here to go dignity meaning it's because I went down a so I got the a score which is 5 times 10 getting extra balls harder than you think because it's it's it's timed weird like it spins a certain number of times around each time it does it like about three and then this only lights up about every three times that it spins so the whole thing's weird it's hard to get the star visible while that's lit up it's just tough to do probably by design I mean they're trying to earn quarters or dimes actually they're trying to earn dimes those that was pathetic so see the lights lit up but the star is not even out oh I didn't even get to flip it no flippin available that time all right we'll try one more game I need to spin it some more because it's a it's not at a good spot like there's no good points to be had really on the carousel it's the only way to really do that let's get it back up there we go there's my star like oh my god light up and then roll down the D or something I'll be alright oh all right ball three all right so there you go folks and as you can see the one lit up next to the you might not be able to see it because it's check it out my one lit up so I've got eleven hundred points that's how they did it back in the 60s folks now by the time you see this this beautiful dancing lady pinball machine we may not even have it for sale anymore she may have pirouette it over to someone else's game room but that's 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