I was involved in producing the Microsoft CD It plays exactly like the original machine as do the other games. I hate Gates, but the Pinball program is a perfect substitute.

My Knockout description of how it plays was used to make the Microsoft game. Believe me, every real life shot was built into the game. In other words, it plays like the real thing. I sold my Knockout for $6200 a bit later. It is by far the best Roy Parker glass ever done.

Yes. They can all be launched onto the playfield, if that's how you'd like to play.

Yes. You can manually feed as many balls if you want into the plunger. Your game likely wouldn't last long, though.

The saucers are worth 500k because the player lit both of the yellow passive bumpers by getting thw ball through the rollovers on the left and right side of the playfield... trust me, those rollovers are a tough shot.

Robert Lozyniak and modifying the scoring circuitry is a LOT tougher than you think. There are multiple relays and a scoring motor to take into account.

@@Renville80 The EM machines only do one thing at a time. Shooting multiple balls simply gangs them up and if the machine is busy, it does nothing. This machine was set up to be a reasonably easy game and it was. Not designed by Wayne Neyens the best Gottlieb designer , glass and art by Roy Parker, the Carravagio of pinball artists. I sold mine for $6100 the highest price paid for any pinball at the time. I helped design the Microsoft game and believe me the game plays exactly like the real game. These 50-60s Gottliebs were the very best pinball could make. All copper dipped metal, the finest phosphor Bronze switches, self cleaning relays, the wear points are easy to fix and they last forever. The worst thing you can do to one is not play it. If you have one, just play it, it will eventually start playing well. Replace bulbs and rubbers and you are good for another 50 years. My favorites: Rocket Ship 1958, Slick Chick 1962, King of Diamonds 1967?? Dave Haynes

Things about Knockout that are little known: The two metal boxers are live participants, when the target is hit, the boxers start swinging their arms, one is knocked out flat and the referee counts the guy out with 10 strokes of his arm. There is a sheet metal lamp shade at the bottom of the ring and with a larger bulb it projects the shadow of the boxers on a wall near the machine. The best set up for all Gottlieb machines is to double up the 1" rubbers on the flippers. This allows the ball to be held with the flipper and shot directly to the right or left into the 500,000 point bucket. The Microsoft game has that shot. The backglass has many little individual stories done by Roy Parker, main theme is that the audience is beating the crap out of each other along with the boxers. This glass survives better than any other machine, and thank God for that, because that is what this game is. Playfield should be cleaned and waxed every few months use Lemon Pledge, no abrasive car wax. Bulbs that appears burned out are usually just dried out and the fiber spacer at the bottom shrinks opening the power supply, just turn the whole socket a bit and they usually turn back on. On flat wiper switches, WD40 is a marvelous lubricant. DH