Description

Surf Champ Pinball Machine

Now for sale at Vintage Arcade Superstore: Gottlieb’s 1976 Surf Champ pinball machine! This 4-player game is highly collectible.

This popular surfing-themed game is the perfect addition to any home as both an excellent pinball game and cool, vintage electro-mechanical machine.

*This Game is in exceptional condition!*

The following is from the International Pinball Database:

Description

Manufacturer:	D. Gottlieb & Company (1931-1977) [Trade Name: Gottlieb]
Date Of Manufacture:	August, 1976
Model Number:	386
Type:	Electro-mechanical (EM)
Production:	10,343 units   (confirmed)
Serial Number Database:	View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net)  (External site)
Theme:	Sports – Water Sports – Happiness – Recreation – Surfing – Swimming
Notable Features:	Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (2), Slingshots (2), Star rollovers (5), 5-bank drop targets (1), Kick-out hole (1), Spinning target (1). End-of-ball bonus. Maximum displayed point score is 99,990 points per player. Replay wheel maximum: 15 Sound: 3 chimes.
Design by:	Ed Krynski
Art by:	Gordon Morison

Notes:

The 2-player version of this game is Gottlieb’s 1976 ‘Surfer’.
On the lower front of the backbox are painted two horizontal stripes. The flyer game and a Sample game shown here each show a blue stripe above a yellow stripe. Other games show a yellow stripe above a blue stripe. This may have been a change during production or a correction by the cabinet maker.
For many years, the production run quantity had been reported for this Model 386 as 1,070 units. Reportedly, this number had come from Gottlieb records. We had contacted Wayne Neyens who said his old company records also indicated this 1,070 quantity. However, users have long commented that they have seen more examples of ‘Surf Champ’ back in the 1970s (and subsequently) than one would expect to have seen for a game with a production run quantity of 1,070 units. We then received company documentation first obtained at the 1996 public auction of Gottlieb assets held in Bensonville Illinois. It detailed sales numbers for games made during 1976-1978. For Surf Champ, it showed the sales numbers broken down by distributor and it showed a grand total of 10,070 units. This appears to be a rare instance of a typographical or recording error having occurred in other Gottlieb data.
With that said, we have again increased our confirmed production run quantity to include 273 Sample games produced in 1976 that were not part of the 10,070 per handwritten documentation identified by Wayne Neyens as coming from Bob Malvasio, a draftsman for Gottlieb whose initials RHM can be found on schematics.

*Note: These are photos of the actual game you can purchase!*

*all games that are sold, are refurbished and optimized before customers receive the final game. Please allow one to two months after purchase so our highly skilled technicians thoroughly go over your game. thank you!*

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