1931 Gottlieb Baffle Ball Pinball

"Baffle Ball" The first widely popular pinball that launched the entire industry almost overnight. We included a slide-show at the end showing the game before it was cleaned as well as the inside parts you would normally never see. Total restore time approximately 15 hrs. - mostly cleaning and polishing. Its all thanks to Baffle Ball games like Theater of Magic, Twilight Zone, Funhouse, Medieval Madness and Adams Family ever made it to production.
Yes, you are hearing things. The squeaking noise you hear is our Sun Conure arguing with the parakeets in the other room.
Philosophy time... What will pinball be like in the future? Will it even have a future? Can these newer games even be considered "pinball" in the technical sense as they have long since been without one key feature, the pins?

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Entertainment

Tags:

• baffle
• gottlieb
• prewar
• vintage
• Bally
• Williams
• Pinball
• Stern
• Antique
• Bagatelle
• Pin
• Ball
• wurlitzer
• seeburg
• rockola
• anime

[S0ryiu]

how would the balls get reset? From what I can tell the game would have to be manually reset after each play.

[animecrash2]

You are very observant. When you start a new game, the coin mechanism opens all the traps allowing the balls to reset. You can see this happen at 1:50.

[ispeakpoems]

Does anyone know if there's any videos of Bagatelle gameplay? I just wanted to see how the game was played from the earliest version.

[animecrash2]

See my "Ballyhoo" video. It starts with a couple bagatelle games.

[ClawMachine44]

What's the song called?

[animecrash2]

Muskrat Ramble

[fridnetha]

Thanks to david Gottlieb!

[bluelink9]

I didn't know they made pinballs like this before. and I tought pinball game were flippers bumper etc. etc. you know what I mean

[S0ryiu]

@animecrash2 Yeah, I wasn't paying attention untill late in the video.. phone calls can do that to you.

[Vomitore]

I don't care how much technology advances with video games. Nothing beats a good pinball machine!

[thejobloshow]

These machines used to be sold for $16.50 in the 30s. Obviously now they're priceless.

[CarolusKlipp482]

Get the audio from this tune at soundnabber doht cohm.