1965 · Gottlieb
Dodge City
Known for ABCDE, Roto, Roto windows and Side saucers. Pink-brick city tenement wall with lit windows, fire escape with metal railing and balcony, street with parked police car and painted wooden frame border.
- Year
- 1965
- Maker
- Gottlieb
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 4
Known for
- gates
ABCDE
- mechanism
Roto
- windows
Roto windows
- saucers
Side saucers
- Goal
100x
On the playfield
Toy 1
- Roto mechanism
Hole 1
- Side saucers saucers
Bumper 1
- Center bumper
Lanes 2
- Center 50-point lanes
- Outlanes marked 50
Post or gate 1
- ABCDE gates
Lights 1
- Star symbol
Other 1
- Roto windows windows
On the backglass
Who and what
- child Laughing blonde child bottom centre, open mouth, red top, holding a jump-rope handle, in front of a blue-and-white police car
- man Policeman standing in the centre doorway, wide-brimmed straw hat, yellow shirt, blue trousers, hands at hips
- woman Red-haired woman on the right in a red dress with puffed sleeve, smiling, beside the word city
- woman Woman in a pink dress standing in an upper lit window
- man Figure in a red jacket leaning out of an upper window next to the pink-dressed woman
- child Small cartoon child in a striped shirt in a white pennant banner at the top left
Setting
- Pink-brick city tenement wall with lit windows
- Fire escape with metal railing and balcony
- Street with parked police car
- Painted wooden frame border
Text on it
- BALL in PLAY
- 1ST PLAYER
- 2ND PLAYER
- 3RD PLAYER
- 4TH PLAYER
- 978
- 1511
- 936
- 000
- MFD. BY B. GOTTLIEB & CO.
- CHICAGO, ILL. 1965
- Gottlieb's
- 4 PLAYER
- DODGE
- CITY
- PLAYERS
- 1 2 3 4
- CAN PLAY
- AT THE SAME TIME
- A GAME OF SKILL
- IT'S MORE FUN
- TO COMPETE!
- CHOOSE PARTNERS
- CHANGE PLAY
- GAME OVER
How it plays
-
Goals 1
- 100x
Made by
- Design
- Ed Krynski
- Art
- Roy Parker
Reference
Linked terms
- ABCDE also called Rollunder gates also called Gates
- Roto also called Roto wheel also called Spin Roto
- Side saucers also called Lit saucer
- 100x also called 100x cash-out
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- pink
- red
- yellow
- blue
Fingerprint: gottlieb's 4 player dodge city title arranged with DODGE CITY in huge white block letters with red outline and curly script Gottlieb's, laughing blonde child holding jump rope at bottom centre in front of blue-and-white police car with white roof light, grinning policeman in doorway above, two women peering from lit windows (one in pink dress, one in red jacket), pink-brick city tenement with fire-escape rails
The centre-bottom gag: a laughing blonde child with an open mouth and a skipping rope, backed by a squat blue-and-white police car with a roof beacon, watched over by a grinning policeman in the doorway above. The huge chunky title DODGE CITY in white block letters with red outline sits on a yellow burst beside a curly scripted 'Gottlieb's'. Two painted women peer out of upper-storey windows (one in a pink dress, one in a red jacket), and the whole upper half is a wall of pink brickwork with fire-escape rails.
Setting
- Pink-brick city tenement wall with lit windows
- Fire escape with metal railing and balcony
- Street with parked police car
- Painted wooden frame border
Symbols
- White jump rope
- Police car beacon
- Fire-escape railing
- Lit windows
- Pennant banners
- Arrow banner
- Score reel windows
Lettering
- Chunky white block sans-serif capitals with red outline and black drop shadow for dodge city; slanted red-and-white retro script capitals for player labels; white cursive script for the maker's name; small black serif capitals on cream plates for the manufacturing line
Themes
- City street
- Traffic dodging
- Police
- Novelty
- Four player
- Buildings
Title on it
- Gottlieb's 4 player dodge city
Text on it
- BALL in PLAY
- 1ST PLAYER
- 2ND PLAYER
- 3RD PLAYER
- 4TH PLAYER
- 978
- 1511
- 936
- 000
- MFD. BY B. GOTTLIEB & CO.
- CHICAGO, ILL. 1965
- Gottlieb's
- 4 PLAYER
- DODGE
- CITY
- PLAYERS
- 1 2 3 4
- CAN PLAY
- AT THE SAME TIME
- A GAME OF SKILL
- IT'S MORE FUN
- TO COMPETE!
- CHOOSE PARTNERS
- CHANGE PLAY
- GAME OVER
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Child | Laughing blonde child bottom centre, open mouth, red top, holding a jump-rope handle, in front of a blue-and-white police car |
| Man | Policeman standing in the centre doorway, wide-brimmed straw hat, yellow shirt, blue trousers, hands at hips |
| Woman | Red-haired woman on the right in a red dress with puffed sleeve, smiling, beside the word city |
| Woman | Woman in a pink dress standing in an upper lit window |
| Man | Figure in a red jacket leaning out of an upper window next to the pink-dressed woman |
| Child | Small cartoon child in a striped shirt in a white pennant banner at the top left |
| Child | Small cartoon child in a white pennant banner at the top right near the 2nd player reel |
| Other | Tiny cartoon figure in a pennant banner at the left edge beside the 3rd player reel |
| Vehicle | Blue and white police car with a white roof light bar and star on the door, bottom centre |
A painted four-player backglass for a novelty 'dodge the city traffic' game, laid out as a grid of score reels in front of a pink-brick city tenement street. A red arrow banner across the top reads BALL in PLAY~. Four white reel windows sit in two tiers, each paired with a blue circle and slanted red-and-white PLAYER caption (1ST, 2ND, 3RD, 4TH); the reels show 978, 1511, 936 and 000. Behind them are lit windows of a brick building with yellow-lit panes, a fire-escape balcony with rails, a woman in a pink dress and a red-jacketed man leaning out, and small cartoon pennant banners. A central doorway shows a cartoon policeman/figure in a straw hat. Below, a blue police car with white roof light sits behind a laughing blonde child holding a jump-rope handle. On the right a red-haired woman in a red dress smiles beside the large word CITY. The palette is hot pink, red, yellow, blue and white in a flat 1960s cartoon style, with worn, yellowed edges and visible scuffing.