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AloneManufactured by D. Gottlieb & Co. Game # 424, System 1 series Released: October 1978 Production run: 9'950 (+470 electromechanical) Design: Ed Krinski Artwork: Gordon Morison Theme: Sci-fi/Aliens, licensed from the Coumbia Pictures movie IPDB Entry: 536
The pinball game, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was licensed from the movie of the same name released by Columbia Pictures in 1977. Columbia Pictures also owned Gottlieb at the time.
The film is perhaps the finest UFO science fiction film ever made, and it was nominated for 6 Oscars but won just one for Best Cinematography. Written and directed by Steven Spielberg, it was his first film after the monster hit "Jaws" (1975). Spielberg's screenplay, from an original script by Paul Schrader, was based upon the book, "The UFO Experience " (1972), written by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who served as the film's technical advisor. The film's title refers to the highest level encounter with an alien: actual contact.
The film's publicity used the slogan "We are not alone" and this appears on the games lightshield artwork behind the roto-target. On the left-side lightshield, the near silhouette of the boy in the doorway depicts one of the movie's opening scenes, when an innocent child called Barry Guiler (Cary Guffey), wakes up on a star-lit, breezy night in Muncie, Indiana, to see his toys moving on their own. He follows a beam of light out of the house to the aliens. The odd-shaped mountain depicted on both the cabinet artwork and on the playfield, at the top of the bonus lamp ladder, is the natural flat-topped wonder of the Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming.
The asymetrically aranged standard-sized playfield offers regular fare: 5 drop-targets, a spinner lane, 2 pop-bumpers and some spot targets and rollovers. The main feature though is the Roto-target, which was rarely used on electronic games, being something of a dinosaur from the electromechanical age. The game uses the early 3-tone sound board but that's not enough for it to recreate the famous 5-tone contact tune of the aliens from the movie.
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The pinball game, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was licensed from the movie of the same name released by Columbia Pictures in 1977. Columbia Pictures also owned Gottlieb at the time. The film is perhaps the finest UFO science fiction film ever made, and it was nominated for 6 Oscars but won just one for Best Cinematography. Written and directed by Steven Spielberg, it was his first film after the monster hit "Jaws" (1975). Spielberg's screenplay, from an original script by Paul Schrader, was based upon the book, "The UFO Experience " (1972), written by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who served as the film's technical advisor. The film's title refers to the highest level encounter with an alien: actual contact. The film's publicity used the slogan "We are not alone" and this appears on the games lightshield artwork behind the roto-target. On the left-side lightshield, the near silhouette of the boy in the doorway depicts one of the movie's opening scenes, when an innocent child called Barry Guiler (Cary Guffey), wakes up on a star-lit, breezy night in Muncie, Indiana, to see his toys moving on their own. He follows a beam of light out of the house to the aliens. The odd-shaped mountain depicted on both the cabinet artwork and on the playfield, at the top of the bonus lamp ladder, is the natural flat-topped wonder of the Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming. The asymetrically aranged standard-sized playfield offers regular fare: 5 drop-targets, a spinner lane, 2 pop-bumpers and some spot targets and rollovers. The main feature though is the Roto-target, which was rarely used on electronic games, being something of a dinosaur from the electromechanical age. The game uses the early 3-tone sound board but that's not enough for it to recreate the famous 5-tone contact tune of the aliens from the movie. |
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