1962 · Gottlieb
Flipper Cowboy
Bright blue sky with a bank of white clouds, western ranch fairground arena with split-rail fence, wooden plank stage with red curtain and barn and yellow starburst panel behind the title.
- Year
- 1962
- Maker
- Gottlieb
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 1
Made by
- Design
- Wayne Neyens
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- yellow
- red
- white
Fingerprint: flipper cowboy, grinning cook in white hat and red-checkered shirt leans from top right corner, red-white bullseye holds four loose digit cards at top left, ten numbered cards 1-10 line the bottom, cowgirl swings lasso above dancing man on barn stage, yellow starburst behind title, bright sky-blue background, comic cartoon midcentury style
A grinning cowboy cook in a white hat and red checkered shirt leans in from the top right corner beside the slanted script title. A red bullseye target holding four loose digit cards reading 0, 4, 2, 7 anchors the top left. A row of ten numbered cards 1 through 10 runs along the bottom edge, and a lasso-swinging cowgirl faces a dancing man on a barn stage below a white ribbon banner and a yellow starburst.
Setting
- Bright blue sky with a bank of white clouds
- Western ranch fairground arena with split-rail fence
- Wooden plank stage with red curtain and barn
- Yellow starburst panel behind the title
Symbols
- Red and white bullseye target
- Dark maroon five-pointed star
- Jagged yellow starburst
- Lassos
- White horse
- Split-rail fence
- Barn with hayloft door
- Piano on stage
- Spatula
- White cloud bank
- Digit cards in a score window
Lettering
- Slanted retro cursive script, white face with yellow inline and dark drop shadow, over a jagged yellow starburst; condensed black capitals on a white ribbon banner; small red capitals on a white panel
Themes
- Wild west
- Cowboy
- Fairground
- Ranch
- Circus sideshow
- Target motif
Title on it
- Flipper cowboy
Text on it
- GOTTIEB'S
- Flipper
- Cowboy
- PREVIOUS HIGH SCORE
- 0
- 4
- 2
- 7
- GAME OVER
- 1
- 3
- 5
- 6
- 8
- 9
- 10
- BALLS TO PLAY
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Top right corner, grinning cowboy cook in a white cowboy hat, red-and-white checkered shirt and green neckerchief, holding a spatula, leaning in over the frame edge |
| Man | Centre stage in the mid-ground, red shirt, blue jeans, red neckerchief and hat, arms out, dancing |
| Man | Seated behind the dancing man at a piano on the wooden stage, pale pink shirt |
| Woman | Left mid-ground cowgirl in a white hat and pale pink top, swinging a lasso |
| Woman | Right mid-ground cowgirl in a white hat, pink top and yellow skirt, swinging a lasso beside a white horse |
| Woman | Left foreground cowgirl in a red hat, red blouse and yellow skirt, hand on hip |
| Woman | Centre foreground brunette in a green top, seated and gesturing upward |
| Woman | Centre foreground blonde in a light-blue sleeveless dress with a blue hair bow, seated beside the brunette |
| Woman | Right foreground cowgirl in a wide white hat and red and green top, blue gloves |
Illuminated backglass with a bright sky-blue background and a Wild-West fairground scene painted in mid-century comic cartoon style with heavy black outlines. Top left: a red-and-white concentric-ring bullseye target with a dark maroon star, overlaid by a yellow-bordered white rectangle holding four black digit cards reading 0, 4, 2, 7. Across the top a small white ribbon banner reads GOTTLIEB'S, followed by the title Flipper Cowboy in slanted white-and-yellow script with a dark drop shadow, set against a jagged yellow starburst. Beneath it a white panel reads PREVIOUS HIGH SCORE. Top right: a grinning cowboy cook in a white cowboy hat, red-and-white checkered shirt and green neckerchief, holding a spatula. The middle shows a ranch arena: a wooden stage with a red curtain, a man in a red shirt and blue jeans dancing centre stage with a pianist behind him, and two cowgirls swinging lassos, one pale pink at left, one white-hatted in pink top and yellow skirt at right beside a white horse. Foreground: five figures, a red-hatted cowgirl in red blouse and yellow skirt at left, a brunette in a green top, a blonde in a blue sleeveless dress with a blue hair bow at centre, and a dark-haired cowgirl in a white hat at right. Along the bottom a yellow strip carries ten white number cards 1 to 10, flanked by red GAME OVER and BALLS TO PLAY panels.