Gottlieb was an arcade game corporation, which was established by David Gottlieb in the 1930s and first produced pinball games; it later began developing video games (for both the arcade and Atari).

Gottlieb first made mechanical pinball games, then electromechanical starting in 1935, and solid-state tables starting in the late 1970s.

Gottlieb was bought by Columbia Pictures in 1977, and in 1983, a management coup turned them into Mylstar Electronics (a joke was that Mylstar was rat slime spelled backwards), and another coup in 1984 turned them into Premier Technology , which went bankrupt in 1996.

Gottlieb's most popular pinball table was Baffle Ball (Mid-1931), and their last released table was Barb Wire (Early 1996)

Gottlieb Video Games

• No Man's Land (1980)
• New York! New York!
• Reactor
• Q*Bert

Gottlieb Pinball Tables

• Baffle Ball (1931)
• Bank-A-Ball (1950)
• Happy Clown (1964)
• Black Hole (1981)
• Haunted House (1982)
• Vegas (1990)
• Super Mario Bros. (1992)

The first version of Gottlieb's solid-state pinball hardware was called System 1 , and was very unreliable, with many design flaws. Likely it was rushed to compete with Bally's proven hardware, of which the first table using it was made 2 years earlier. The second revision, which was first made in 1980, was called System 80 . Further revisions were System 80A and System 80B . The final revision was System 3, first made in 1988.

See Also

• Sidney Gottlieb CIA Agent