1974 Gottlieb BIG SHOT (Hot Shot) pinball machine

Here's a 1973/1974 Gottlieb BIG SHOT pinball machine in action.
This game is all about shooting drop targets and is a shooters dream. it requires some pretty accurate aim when most of the drops have been cleared. Hitting the 8 ball lane or saucer is necessary to light the alternating special. The ball return gate on the right outlane is a nice tough.
Pretty basic play that will punish the player if ball control can't be maintained. Ensuring the game is level is necessary to prevent hardcore ball drains out the left or right side.
This game was designed by Ed Krynski with art by Gordon Morison (of course). For more information on this game, see here: ipdb.org/machin...

[@ScottMartinD]

I love vintage games like this with a real simple clear-cut goal. Gottleib's _Pop A Card_ is another good example.

[@guyreid8692]

One of the greatest games ever.

[@brianfergus839]

Yes

[@ThisGuyFrritz]

As a 70's kid, I've played that pinball game once. I was able to light up all the 15 balls in the game. My dad showed me the number 100,000 when it lit up. I must've been better at it than what I've expected!

[@davideisemann7130]

Good old dad respect !

[@20alphabet]

My all time favorite pinball machine!

[@fixeverything4u]

Awesome machinery like your videos

[@londonpinball]

Thanks!

[@fixeverything4u]

Hey Corry your videos are outstanding I can't stop watching them everyday I just picked one up yesterday and it's in excellent shape thanks once again for posting

[@londonpinball]

I'm really glad you enjoy them! Thanks for watching!

[@NNITRED]

I was just playing this table on PS4 the detail amazing. They even have the electrical hum when holding the flipper. Obviously not the same but this video makes appreciate the table much more.

[@oiluminado6266]

Uma das primeiras maquinas que brinquei na minha juventude , muito bom ver esse vídeo

[@EduardoHernandez-pb4ck]

King of the classics

[@KnightOnBaldMountain]

You’ve got mad skills. I enjoyed watching you play. I play it occasionally on Far Sights Pinball Arcade. I know it’s not precisely the same, but the digital version seems to drain far too easily.

[@TylerMcNamer]

Big/Hot Shot is one of the pioneers of modern day pinball. All you really need is two flippers on the bottom and a single objective.

[@blastforth]

I remember it. Great game. Doesn't anyone give the thing a little shake now and then?

[@KajetSeifert]

I love the bell sounds on this table, most bells are more metallic and not as mellow. Also it kinda sounds like Darude's Sandstorm.

[@S.J.C._Entertainment]

LMAO it does

[@theoldar]

A great but brutal machine.

[@geekpie100]

I think this machine may have been in Slots o Fun on Ramsey Promenade, Isle of Man.

[@jimdep6542]

Wow.......Ball 4 was killer. You just needed that one drop target on the left side and just missed it a few times. 2x the ball came back up from the bottom drain.

[@xpump876]

great game

[@theowocastform2153]

My grandpa has this pinball machine

[@jimdep6542]

He knows how to get his family to come for a visit ! Smart man.

[@PrincessShokora2002]

My grandpa has this

[@1silverball]

nice vid

[@ГеоргийПлющёв]

Now it's time to be a [pinball machine]!!

[@KaiTamreal404]

knew this would happen

[@eltiolavara9]

i knew someone would comment this

[@marcovendetti3373]

Great game.

[@xpump876]

great game -- is the center post stock? - i don't recall it

[@londonpinball]

I didn't think about it until you mentioned it, but I don't think it's stock. I received the game that way and didn't realize it wasn't original.

[@fixeverything4u]

Have this game. Tried everything to get the end of ball bonus to score correctly. Always seems to short me 1-3 balls. It's a disconnect between the main score motor and end of ball bonus motor (underside rear right). Checked if the lever was skipping gear teeth, it would be easier to sell it than rifle through a hundred switch stacks to see where the issue is. Fun game though.

[@londonpinball]

The bonus value for this machine counts down through score motor switch 1A. If it's gapped too far apart or too closely, it'll skip points.

[@fixeverything4u]

​​@@londonpinball Thanks for the tip. I'll check 1A again. I see your machine has the same underpowered flipper coils as well!

[@ThomasMuller-jb5lh]

Thanks for the video. But i would have like to see how the player get an "Extra-Ball" or "Special".

[@londonpinball]

I always try to get to the special, but sometimes getting a good video on a game takes forever and I just have to say "that's good enough." Thanks for watching.

[@kenstrain4366]

I just picked up this game and trying to learn about it. It is labeled Mondial Gottlieb.

[@tdickensheets]

The Pinball Arcade have this pinball.

[@e.m.pinballfan2477]

gg!

[@tdickensheets]

On The Pinball Arcade for Xbox One.

[@emsteph]

Is there a setting that allows the drop down targets to carry over from ball to ball instead of resetting?

[@londonpinball]

No. They may carry over on Pro Pool (the single player version), but multiplayer electromechanical games always reset all features between balls and players because they have no electronic memory. The solid state version of this game (with some changes) is Pinball Pool and it *might* have a carry over feature but I don't remember.

[@emsteph]

@@londonpinball Thanks kindly for the great info.

[@jordan240]

How much can a machine like that be worth?

[@londonpinball]

I nice working example, depending on the location, would be worth around $1000-$2000 Canadian.

[@deepblue1635]

Do something with those chimes.

[@Lightblue2222]

Yea old pinball games sound so annoying. Must have sucked for bartenders back in the day. Freekn headache. But the games are super fun and challenging.

[@davideisemann7130]

@@Lightblue2222 with all due respect them chimes were and still are music from the good ol games of the 60s &70s I understand that there's a lot of young bucks out there that like games like Adams family, funhouse,etc. But it's a matter of preference. I'm not into fast games with a CD.rom and balls flying so fast that ya don't even know what the hell your shooting for. No offense to the new generation but I'm an E.M guy in any case pinball rules !!

[@davidlineweaver7235]

@@Lightblue2222 Could be worse. A few years ago a bar I went to went even more retro and had a Target Pool from 1969. The bartenders REALLY loved it when I was able to get some of the arrow targets lit and hit several of them in succession for 300 points and a satisfying "CLANG-CLANG-CLANG" from a five-inch bell in the backbox for each hit.