Gottlieb 1976 Surf Champ Pinball Machine

Arguably one of the best games from the end of the EM era.
You gotta love those chimes. Gottlieb even got the cabinet art right!
1976 was also the year pinball started to switch to solid state. Check out our 1976 Bally "Freedom" for a perfect example

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Entertainment

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• Surf
• Champ
• gottlieb
• bally
• williams
• stern
• genco
• pinball
• machine
• vintage
• antique
• em
• electro
• mechanical
• jukebox
• wurlitzer
• rockola
• 1976

[MrDODGERS131313]

I am a lucky owner of this title, did you keep this one or sell it ? mine is on my no sell list, and they are hard to find in Michigan...nice job on the machine overhaul..looks great.

Brian in Detroit

[animecrash2]

Thanks Brian!

This one is not for sale.

Actually, its not working very well right now. First the 500 point features stopped working and now its a mess. We just haven't had time to get back in there. Hopefully we can fix it up for the holidays.

[justincasekazoo]

I think it's a nice game with all of those features packed into it, but I just don't like how the only way to get an extra ball is by losing the current one!

[animecrash2]

Excellent point. Some people don't like how the spinner was put in front of the pop bumper.

It's not a perfect game but it is fun and has nice artwork.

[Paulywint]

Back when I was 8 years oldI remember playing this game at a Holiday Inn in the swimming pool area, and while I was playing it the ball got stuck on one of the rollovers, and it kept on adding 500 points. One older guy had to jiggle the machine to get the ball out of the spot where it was stuck. I think I accumulated a good score lol

[vw2rover]

That looks like a ton of fun. Wish I could play once.

[voxnut]

I typically like the woodrails and early 60's wedgeheads and Williams reverse wedgeheads, but I've got to agree- this is one of the few 70's games I really like and it's on my short list of "must own someday" pinballs. Nice job!