1979 Gottlieb Count-Down Pinball Machine! System 1 classic

1979 Gottlieb Count-Down Pinball Machine! System 1 classic - Gameplay, Artwork Video!

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@gorillaau 4 жыл бұрын

The rules to this game sounds like a load of fun. Simple mechanics but stacking the bonuses and allowing you to collect the bonus but keep playing the same ball, is a winner for me.

@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

Yup, any game that lets you take the bonus and keep the ball is a winner, they ought to do that on all of them (they probably do now)

@LeVieuxFini 3 жыл бұрын

own this one .... absolutly beautiful pinball... simpe and lots of fun .

@LyonsArcade 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I love it, a real gem of a Gottlieb!

@1976aztec Жыл бұрын

Had this one in my Dads store fun game to play.

@plumcrazypreston2797 2 жыл бұрын

This is what 1979 sounded like. Computer beepers. I miss the old-fashioned mechanical bell tones I hard in the convenience stores in the summer of 1975.

@yabbaguy 7 жыл бұрын

Yellow then green DOES jump you to 3x. Doing it completely backwards: blue, red, yellow, green DOES jump you to 5x (all the way from 1x). What a fun game!

@LyonsArcade 7 жыл бұрын

I need to get another one, this one sold so fast I didn't get much time to play it....

@johntate5050 Жыл бұрын

For me, pinball machines will always be kings of the arcades.

@exoticcar5482 2 жыл бұрын

Very neat to see vacuum fluorescent score displays in a pinball machine

@LyonsArcade 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I liked the looks of these better than the plasmas. They used these on the jukeboxes too...

@eduardotoutin762 6 ай бұрын

I spent hours and hours playing countdown at my local arcade from 11th grade until my second year in college. Afterwards, I got me a girlfriend and my count-down days were over. She was nearly as fun 😄. Fun fact: In 1980 at 2 different arcades, I came accross a machine that was identical to the Count-Down. Its graphics, layout etc., were exactly the same, except for the name. It was called "Sputnik".

@DeeGeeDeFi 6 жыл бұрын

"This is what 1979 looks like!" No doubt! I *think* that there was a CountDown machine at the 7-11 right by my apartment complex, November 1979 to mid 1980. They probably got $30 of my (then) seventh grade self at that 7-11. Flash was also there, but Flash always kicked my butt. The four pinball machines at my 7-11 were probably replaced by the end of 1980 by Battle Zone, Asteroids, Defender, and Missile Command.

@LyonsArcade 6 жыл бұрын

Very cool.... Think of the money that game must have made. I had a guy I worked with who operated games back in the day, and he said Defender made $800 the first week in his bowling alley....

@Practicedummy1 8 жыл бұрын

This game is addictive. :D

@LyonsArcade 8 жыл бұрын

I know! It's hard to turn off the camera :)

@purplepeak8575 Жыл бұрын

Getting closer to repairing mine.

@marcelovenegas2147 2 жыл бұрын

grandes recuerdos de mi niñez en Chile

@wissn2112 2 ай бұрын

I played this as a teen about 81, near apple valley pizza place. I LOVE THIS GAME. I haven't seen one since the early 80's. I had like 12 games won, and had to go home. So I left them for others. I like the more simple ones. Newer ones got WAY TO CLUTTERED. Getting the targets down was the key.

@Gortman1 Күн бұрын

@@wissn2112 apple valley Minnesota ?

@wissn2112 Күн бұрын

@@Gortman1 yes.

@Gortman1 Күн бұрын

@@wissn2112 cool.

@JamesHill-su2jo 2 жыл бұрын

I always think of I Love Jeannie. The astronaut being Major Nelson and the space girl as Jeannie.

@Gortman1 18 күн бұрын

That was the original design for the machine it was designed to be I dream of Jeannie but they couldn't get the intellectual property so they made it anyway and called it countdown rather than I dream of genie.

@lubulumeng4062 4 жыл бұрын

J'adore aussi ce flipp, j'y passais tout les samedis après midi avec des potes. Ça me rappelle ma jeunesse. Merci.

@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

Merci d'avoir regardé nous l'apprécions!

@lubulumeng4062 4 жыл бұрын

Il y a de quoi, pour moi, c'est le meilleur flipp que j'ai joué. Le countdown était pas mal aussi mais plus ancien.

@sentinelle11 10 ай бұрын

Wé! des après midi au bistrot du coin avant de sauter sur les bécanes ! Le Paradis, avec un peu de mauvaise fois en cours de partie

@twistedyogert 4 жыл бұрын

The later Mercury capsules (Redstone 4, Atlas 6 onward) had a large window in front of the pilot. Earlier ones just had a tiny porthole on both sides.

@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

Very cool, I never researched those much but that makes sense!

@ChezArcade 8 жыл бұрын

Very cool art for Such an old game. Usually it's so much more bland!

@LyonsArcade 8 жыл бұрын

Yes, some of these really stand out if you take the time to check them out!

@ImaDAD 8 жыл бұрын

The pinch the Astronaut is showing to the Girl means I'm just .going a little bit further on this trip. I'm rusty on my hitchhiker lingo and the same with my CB 10-4 codes too. Played Count Down when it was brand new at our bowling alley (The same Bowling alley in Bill & Teds Excellent adventure). The only thing that disappoints about the System 1 games is you do not have a carry over/memory function. every ball is the same. So you will see a lot of them set to 3 ball mode. Still on of the best games of all time is Sinbad, Love Count-Down and I have The Hulk in my house.

@LyonsArcade 8 жыл бұрын

I agree! I didn't know that about the pinch, i'm going to google it :)

@ImaDAD 8 жыл бұрын

I do fine it funny that the Astronaut is signaling to the lady I'm only going a little further on this short trip :)

@alexinredandblack 7 жыл бұрын

You mast love it.

@LyonsArcade 7 жыл бұрын

It's pretty good!

@SwedishEmpire1700 8 жыл бұрын

I helped a guy here to fix his Count-Down some months ago, had a solenoid problem, one of the upper flippers kept popping fuses.

@LyonsArcade 8 жыл бұрын

Very cool man!

@ArtStoneUS 2 жыл бұрын

We had a theory that pinball machines had a magnet under the outlane(s) that would activate if you were doing too well. This theory was boosted by later games that did hold the ball in place with a magnet. Another theory was that the pinballs were filled with mercury that would slosh around creating unpredictable spin. The path of the pinball is a combination of horizontal speed, vertical speed and spin. Your eyes can’t see the spin. It might be interesting to put dots on a pinballl (fingernail polish?) and watch the spin. Another secret that explains the song pinball wizard, and my own abilities, is that I only see with one eye at a time. Depending where the pinball is in your field of vision, there is a handoff between your two eyes, and that’s the instant in which you have to decide what to do. That small delay is what causes you to make mistakes and drain the ball.

@LyonsArcade 2 жыл бұрын

That makes sense Art, thank you for watching!

@afattori316 4 жыл бұрын

Love your videos. If I am interested in a pin I always check to see if you have done a video on one. Looking at possibly getting a Count Down. Thanks!

@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

In my opinion... very fun game for it's age. I love the Gottlieb stuff, I'm working on several right now :)

@ryanwolf7174 2 жыл бұрын

U got me hook on your video

@LyonsArcade 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching ,Ryan!

@ThomasMuller-jb5lh Жыл бұрын

And now I want to see a game with a good player....

@LyonsArcade Жыл бұрын

You think so?

@TheWallace6969 5 жыл бұрын

great game! btw i wonder if the artwork was inspired by i dream of jeanie.

@LyonsArcade 5 жыл бұрын

Sure looks that way, right?

@afattori316 4 жыл бұрын

TheWallace6969 that’s right? He was an astronaut on the show if I remember correctly.

@Gortman1 18 күн бұрын

I was originally set to get the contract for the intellectual rights to sell it as I dream of genie. It fell through and they had moved so far along production that they produced it anyway with the alternate name.

@emsteph 2 жыл бұрын

Nice game. Is there a setting to switch the sound to "chimes"? Also, is it possible to switch from 3 balls/game to 5? Thanks for the video.

@LyonsArcade 2 жыл бұрын

There is, there's dipswitches for both of those.

@emsteph 2 жыл бұрын

@@LyonsArcade Thank you.

@corneleousworthington4566 3 жыл бұрын

I could be wrong, but I thought I read somewhere, the system 1 games were bulletproof back in their day.. It wasn't until later, when they aged, that they became problematic and got a bad rap..

@LyonsArcade 3 жыл бұрын

That very well could be, i'm not sure.. .but I definitely think they get a bad rap. I honestly love them, once you repair them, the things are good to go, they're just not that complex which some people can't stand, but I like the EM's and these are slightly more complex than the EM's so that's good enough for me. The good news is the Gottlieb Solid State games are cheaper than all the other companies, because people are convinced they're not as fun, even though they've never played most of them! More Fun for you and Me! Thanks for watching Corneleous!

@Gortman1 18 күн бұрын

I could be wrong but I believe they were error prone right out of the gate in the late 70s early 80s.

@neonnight34609 7 жыл бұрын

who makes the new replacement boards ?

@LyonsArcade 7 жыл бұрын

Check out Ni-Wumpf.com

@pepincuatro2865 11 ай бұрын

Cool stuff. But what's the name of the other pinball you have there next to it?

@Success2gether 5 жыл бұрын

Great game. So those are not actual slingshots at the bottom? Interesting...

@LyonsArcade 5 жыл бұрын

Gottlieb had a problem where their board system could only handle so many coils. And it wasn't many. So they needed extra coils on this particular game for all the drop targets, and I suppose that meant they had to get rid of the slingshot coils. Slings are kind of meant to be similar to flippers (just automated) so since the game had 4 flippers I guess they felt they weren't necessary!

@Success2gether 5 жыл бұрын

Joe's Classic Video Games Very interesting insight! Thx!

@kdinga5145 4 жыл бұрын

I have one of these, not working for some reason at moment.

@DrTotz 4 жыл бұрын

What...system 1 boards not working? They never act funny...lol. Still easier than dealing with System 80 boards. Back glass is sweet. That's a Gordon Morison for ya. I think the system 1 games sound way better through chimes than the sound board. I had an encounters and I really hated the sound effects...but my Joker Poker on the other hand...oh yeah. Chimetastic. Thanks for sharing the video sir.

@LyonsArcade 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'd like to get a Joker Poker I think that may be the only one I haven't had yet...

@DrTotz 4 жыл бұрын

@@LyonsArcade Out of all the early solid state Gottliebs it's definitely my favorite. It's one of only 2 tables in my collection that I consider safe. lol. Since you were talking plastics in another video,I thought I'd mention that I'm in the process of making sexier plastics for my JP. The backglass are is very Gordon Morison but he plastics are boring. When I finish them and get them printed I'll send you a link if you want to see them.

@Gortman1 18 күн бұрын

@@DrTotzsend a link

@Gortman1 18 күн бұрын

Isnt the pascal bosrd better for yhese than ritten dogs board ? I believe rotten dog is mpu only and not a driver board and pascal is mpu and driver board tigether plus it has siftware for most if the games integrated unto the board.