Also known as R911
1994 · Gottlieb
Rescue 911
Known for Helipad, Helicopter, Emergency Room and Call 9-1-1. Burning city skyline of black silhouetted towers, red and dark blue smoke clouds, wet grey road with white lane markings and large orange and yellow fireball flames.
- Year
- 1994
- Maker
- Gottlieb
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Players
- 4
Known for
- Lane
Helipad
- Toy
Helicopter
- Lane
Emergency Room
- Mode
Call 9-1-1
- Goal
Lives
- Wizard mode
Lifeforce
- Multiball
Jaws of Life
On the playfield
- black
- red
- orange
- yellow
- blue
- 2 flippers
- 1 spinner
- 2 slingshots
Toy 1
- Helicopter
Ramp 1
- Habitrail habitrail
Holes 2
- Upkicker upkicker
- Hidden hole
Captive ball 1
- Captive ball
Targets 6
- Center standup target
- EKG
- Dispatch target
- Rescue target
- Advance X
- White standup
Lanes 2
- Helipad
- Emergency Room
On the backglass
Who and what
- vehicle White and blue ambulance seen head-on, red cross on bonnet, blue and red roof light bars, grille and bumper, twin bright headlights, front plate reading 9 11, surrounded by a blinding white halo
- vehicle Black and white police helicopter hovering upper right, tilted, with rotor blur and smoke trailing behind it
- vehicle Red fire engine on the left road, side ladders visible, driving towards the viewer
- vehicle White and black police car on the right with a flashing red and blue light bar on the roof
Setting
- Burning city skyline of black silhouetted towers
- Red and dark blue smoke clouds
- Wet grey road with white lane markings
- Large orange and yellow fireball flames
Text on it
- RESCUE
- 9 11
- Gottlieb
- © 1994 CBS Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Patent Technology is an authorized
- © 1994 Premier Technology. All Rights Reserved.
How it plays
-
Modes 5
- Call 9-1-1
- Stork EB
- Wildfire
- Flash Flood
- Hostage Rescue
-
Multiballs 3
- Cave-in Rescue
- Jaws of Life
- Quick Multiball
-
Goals 3
- Lives
- Med-Alert
- Hook & Ladder
-
Wizard modes 1
- Lifeforce
Made by
- Design
- Bill Parker
- Art
- Constantino Mitchell
- Art
- David Moore
- Art
- Jeanine Mitchell
- Software
- Bob Wilson
- Software
- Jon Norris
- Sound
- Craig Beierwaltes
- Music
- Duane Decker
- Display animation
- Daryl Moore
- Display animation
- Alycen Hareas
- Display animation
- Rand Paulin
Reference
Linked terms
- Helipad also called Helipad hook lane
- Upkicker also called lock sinkhole
- Lives also called Life
- Lifeforce also called Life Force
- Cave-in Rescue also called Cave-In
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- black
- red
- orange
- yellow
- blue
Fingerprint: RESCUE 911, blue graph-paper grid panel centre with RESCUE-911 white-red letters, two yellow down-arrows carrying 9-1-1 numerals, five oval MULTIPLIER lamps row, tan helicopter model upper-left with translucent amber splayed wings, white-red emergency-vehicle graphic, red translucent ramp right side, burning tower scaffold upper-right, cream instruction card lower-third, emergency-services theme, red-orange-yellow on blue
A live blue graph-paper grid panel in the middle of a black playfield, overprinted with the white-and-red title RESCUE 911, flanked by two big yellow down-arrows each carrying a white 9-1-1 numeral, and a row of five oval MULTIPLIER lamps. A pale tan helicopter model with wide translucent amber splayed wings and a tail boom sits at the top left, above a white-and-red emergency vehicle graphic. The right third is dominated by a bright red translucent ramp and a burning, scaffold-like tower painted in yellow and orange. The entire lower third is typography: a cream instruction card headed RESCUE 911 with a bulleted OBJECTIVE list, a black bordered title card repeating RESCUE 911, and two green-trimmed 50c 1 PLAY cards. Cabinet and backbox art continue the theme: a fleet of red-and-white emergency vehicles under red RESCUE lettering in the backbox, and a grey printed skyline with yellow hi-vis ladders on the cabinet front and side panels.
Setting
- Left and right lower side walls printed with a grey photographic city skyline of blocky high-rise towers under a pale sky
- Upper right of playfield painted as a burning high-rise tower, yellow and orange flames through black scaffolding
- Centre of playfield is a flat blue square-grid (graph paper) field over black
- Backbox interior shows a dark night sky over a fleet of red-and-white emergency vehicles
- Cabinet front is grey with yellow hi-vis ladder graphics
Symbols
- Red cross medical emblem on the centre vehicle
- Card-suit-style arrow chevrons and thick yellow directional arrows
- Large yellow arrow medallions each carrying a white 9-1-1 numeral
- Oval lives and multiplier lamp inserts in a row across the centre
- Blue circular ground-station dishes
- Red cross/star logo with the gottlieb wordmark on the cabinet
- Flame and window-grid motifs on the burning tower
- Yellow hi-vis ladder and scaffold lines on the cabinet sides
Notable shapes
- A large yellow square with rounded corners framing the central blue grid panel; two big yellow arrow medallions carrying 9-1-1 numerals at the left and right of the central grid; an oval lamp cluster in a shallow arc beneath the title; a trapezoidal white instruction card clipped to the playfield at lower left; a large glossy black cabinet front with a rectangular recessed coin door
Art motifs
- Blue graph-paper grid panel as the central stage
- Yellow-bordered white instruction lanes running diagonally into the lower flipper area
- Translucent red, orange and blue plastics layered over airbrushed illustration
- Graph-paper, blueprint and technical-drawing styling
- Letterpress slab-serif title caps in white with red drop-shadow numerals
Themes
- Fire and rescue service
- Urban disaster
- Emergency vehicles
- Helicopter air rescue
- Burning high-rise
- 911 emergency response
- Satellite communications
Title on it
- Rescue 911
Text on it
- RESCUE 911
- RESCUE 911.
- NOMINAL PLAY
- OBJECT
- PRESS CALL '911' TO ENTER RESCUE
- DURING THE RESCUE, COMPLETE THE INDICATED OBJECTIVE
- DROP THE BALL FROM THE HELICOPTER TO THE FLASHING AREA
- GET THE BALL FROM THE FLASHING AREA TO THE BURNING TOWER
- HIT FLASHING LIVES TO EQUIP THE FIRE POWER AND SCORE POINTS
- MULTIBALL
- TWO BALLS OF CERTAIN RESCUES AWARD MULTIBALL
- SHOOT AGAIN IN THE HELICOPTER ON THE UPPER LEFT SLOT FOR ANOTHER CHANCE TO RESCUE
- PRESS AND HOLD RIGHT FLIPPER BUTTON DURING GAME
- WHILE CONTROLLING TO HOLD THE RIGHT FLIPPER BUTTON
- THE LEFT FLIPPER TO TURN PAGES
- SHOOT
- CAPTIVE BALL TO COLLECT RED OR BLUE BONUS
- CENTER TARGET TO ADVANCE RED OR BLUE BONUS
- 50c 1 PLAY
- SEE DISPLAY FOR
- EXTENDED PLAY OPTION
- Premier Technology - Gottlieb
- Gottlieb
- Game: Rescue 911
- Lead Designer: Bill Parker
- Patent Pending
- CALL 9-1-1
- FIRE RESCUE
- LIVES
- START GAME
- 30I65
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Other | Pale tan/cream helicopter at the upper left of the playfield, seen from above at an angle, with a long tail boom, a main rotor mast, and four large translucent amber-orange splayed rotor blades or wing panels forming a starburst. it faces right, towards the centre of the field. sits above a red-orange plastic ramp piece. |
| Other | Pale grey and white fire appliance or ambulance with red striping and a red cross/medical panel, drawn in top-down plan view in the centre of the playfield, pointing up-field toward the helicopter. immediately above it a red-and-white ladder truck graphic stretches horizontally across the mid-field. |
| Other | Two large circular dish models mounted on posts at the upper centre: one white dish with a blue rim and a dark blue centre, one solid magenta/pink dish, tilted at different angles like ground-station satellite antennas. |
| Other | Upper right, a tall multi-storey building rendered in black, yellow and orange with flame tongues and window grid, and small red-lit windows. reads as a burning high-rise being attacked by firefighters. |
| Other | At least one small human figure in a dark turnout suit with a helmet is painted climbing or standing on the right side of the burning tower graphic near the ramp. detail is small and partly obscured by the red ramp plastic. |
| Other | Stylised red, orange and yellow flame tongues with white highlights appear at the upper right around the tower and along the right lane, and a smaller burst of orange flame appears at the upper left beneath the helicopter. |
Full-length modern pinball playfield photographed through a black lock-down bar, with the backbox interior and cabinet front also visible. Glossy black playfield overlaid with die-cut graphics: a large blue square-grid panel in the centre carrying RESCUE 911 in white and red block capitals over MULTIPLIER. On the centre-left, a pale grey-and-red emergency vehicle is drawn in plan view; a tan twin-rotor helicopter model sits at the upper left, wings of a large translucent red-orange sheet, with a blue-rimmed white satellite dish and a magenta disc assembly above centre. The right side carries a tall burning tower structure and a sweeping translucent red ramp. Yellow-outlined instruction panels fill the lower third, with two green-framed '50c 1 PLAY' plates, a large central black title card, a cream instruction card headed RESCUE 911, and a yellow METAL COVER PLATE on the cabinet. Red LED lighting glows under the plastics.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- red
- orange
- blue
- white
Fingerprint: RESCUE title in large white slab serif letters black drop shadow, head-on ambulance white blue driving straight viewer headlights blazing red cross bonnet, burning city skyline black silhouetted towers huge orange yellow flames, black white police helicopter upper right tilted trailing smoke, red fire engine left road white police car right, enormous red 9 11 numeral top left behind title, saturated airbrushed photographic collage style
A huge red 9 11 numeral, taller than the ambulance, sits directly behind the title in the top left corner. The whole centre is a head-on ambulance with a red cross on its bonnet bursting out of a blinding white glow, with a burning city skyline behind it. A black and white police helicopter hovers at the upper right, tilted, trailing smoke. A police car and a red fire engine flank the ambulance on either side, and a yellow-and-red Gottlieb logo sits in the bottom right corner.
Setting
- Burning city skyline of black silhouetted towers
- Red and dark blue smoke clouds
- Wet grey road with white lane markings
- Large orange and yellow fireball flames
Symbols
- Red cross on a white ground
- 9 11 numerals
- Ambulance light bars
- Flames
- Helicopter rotor
- Car flashing light bar
Lettering
- Large white slab-serif capitals with a hard black drop shadow for the title, behind it an enormous flat red 9 11 numeral in heavy sans-serif; maker logo in chunky rounded yellow-to-red gradient letters with a red drop shadow
Themes
- Emergency services
- 9 11
- Fire and rescue
- City fire
- Police
- Air ambulance
Title on it
- Rescue
Text on it
- RESCUE
- 9 11
- Gottlieb
- © 1994 CBS Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Patent Technology is an authorized
- © 1994 Premier Technology. All Rights Reserved.
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Vehicle | White and blue ambulance seen head-on, red cross on bonnet, blue and red roof light bars, grille and bumper, twin bright headlights, front plate reading 9 11, surrounded by a blinding white halo |
| Vehicle | Black and white police helicopter hovering upper right, tilted, with rotor blur and smoke trailing behind it |
| Vehicle | Red fire engine on the left road, side ladders visible, driving towards the viewer |
| Vehicle | White and black police car on the right with a flashing red and blue light bar on the roof |
A square backglass dominated by a head-on view of a white and blue ambulance driving straight at the viewer, headlights blazing, red cross on its bonnet, blue and red light bars on the roof and a front number plate reading 9 11. The ambulance sits in a blinding white glow. Behind it a city skyline of black silhouetted towers burns, with huge orange and yellow flames and a red-and-blue smoky sky. A black and white police helicopter hovers upper right, trailing smoke. A red fire engine drives on the left-hand road and a white police car with a flashing light bar is on the right. Top left: the title RESCUE in large white slab serif letters with a black drop shadow, with an enormous red 9 11 numeral behind it. No people are depicted. The art is a highly saturated airbrushed photographic collage, hot reds and oranges against deep blue. Bottom right carries a yellow-and-red Gottlieb logo, bottom left three lines of small white copyright print.