1965 · Gottlieb
Thoro-Bred
Outdoor racecourse with rolling green hills and distant trees, bright blue sky, red-and-cream striped circus tent awning across the top, black-and-white checkered grandstand building and wooden rail fencing along the track.
- Year
- 1965
- Maker
- Gottlieb
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 2
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
- red
- green
- blue
- white
Fingerprint: THORO-BRED in slanted red capitals, misspelled. Grinning man in red jacket, tall red hat, arms spread over bulldog head ringed with blue lightning. Two racehorses with jockeys. Black-and-white checkered spectators. Red-and-cream circus tent awning, green background, deep colours.
The headline is the misspelled title THORO-BRED in slanted red block capitals with white shading, set beside a cartoon grinning man in a red jacket and tall red hat who holds his arms wide over a bulldog-head medallion ringed with blue lightning. A red-and-cream striped circus awning runs across the very top, with 1ST PLAYER and 2ND PLAYER pennant-topped reel windows beneath it. Two racing horses with jockeys occupy the left third, a checkered grandstand of brightly dressed spectators fills the right third, and the bottom corners carry the slogans IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE! / A GAME OF SKILL and 1 or 2 PLAYERS / CAN PLAY AT THE SAME TIME.
Setting
- Outdoor racecourse with rolling green hills and distant trees
- Bright blue sky
- Red-and-cream striped circus tent awning across the top
- Black-and-white checkered grandstand building
- Wooden rail fencing along the track
Symbols
- Bulldog head medallion
- Blue lightning bolts
- Red pennant flags
- Black-and-white checkered flag pattern
- Striped tent awning
- Mechanical reel score windows
- Wooden rail fence
Lettering
- Bold slanted sans-serif capitals in red with white inline shading for the title; white and yellow sans-serif capitals for slogans; white script-in-caps for ball in play; red italic script inside white boxes for the corner slogans
Themes
- Horse racing
- Harness racing
- Circus tent
- Bulldog mascot
- Two player
- Skill game
Title on it
- Thoro-bred
Text on it
- GOTTEIBS
- 2 PLAYER
- THORO-BRED
- 1ST
- PLAYER
- 2ND
- BALL IN PLAY
- IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE!
- A GAME OF SKILL
- GAME OVER
- 1 or 2 PLAYERS
- CAN PLAY AT THE SAME TIME
- MAN BY D. GOTTLIEB & CO
- CHICAGO, ILL
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Large central grinning cartoon man, rosy cheeks, red jacket, tall red hat, blue-and-white checked scarf, arms spread wide, waist-up behind the disc |
| Animal | Snarling red-and-black bulldog head inside the white disc, ringed by blue lightning bolts |
| Animal | Brown racehorse with black mane at left, mid-gallop, ridden by a jockey in blue silks |
| Man | Jockey in blue leaning forward on a second chestnut horse at lower left-centre, wearing a cap |
| Other | Group of roughly a dozen small spectators in front of the grandstand at right, in red, blue, yellow and green coats and hats, some with arms raised |
| Other | A figure in a yellow coat and pale hat at bottom-centre-right, seen from behind, facing the track |
| Other | Partly visible orange/tan figure in blue at bottom centre, cropped by the lower edge |
A landscape electro-mechanical backglass dominated by a red-and-cream striped circus-tent awning across the top edge, beneath which a white-on-black maker's strip runs left to right and a small cream cartouche sits at top centre. Two white-framed mechanical score windows sit high left and high right, each headed by a red pennant reading 1ST or 2ND PLAYER and each showing reel digits. Between them stands a large central cartoon man: a grinning, rosy-cheeked man in a red jacket and tall red hat with a blue-and-white checked scarf, arms spread wide. Below him sits a big yellow-rimmed white disc containing a snarling red-and-black bulldog head ringed by blue lightning bolts. The background is deep green with rolling hills, distant trees and a blue sky. On the left, white and red hand-lettered text reads GOTTEIBS 2 PLAYER above the huge red title THORO-BRED, over a brown horse and a rider in blue on a rearing horse. On the right, white letters on a blue panel read BALL IN PLAY above a black-and-white checkered grandstand and a group of about a dozen small figures in bright red, blue, yellow and green. Bottom left is a white box with red script stating it is more fun to compete, a game of skill, above a red GAME OVER bar. Bottom right shows 1 or 2 PLAYERS and CAN PLAY AT THE SAME TIME in a white panel with a large red numeral.