300 (pinball)

This article is about the pinball game. For other uses, see 300 (disambiguation).

"300"

Manufacturer	Gottlieb
Release date	August 1975
System	Electro-mechanical
Design	Ed Krynski
Artwork	Gordon Morison
Production run	8,157(approx.)

"300" (the exact machine name includes the quotation marks) is a bowling themed Electro-Mechanical pinball machine with the art created by Gordon Morison, designed by Ed Krynski, and produced by Gottlieb with a bowling theme. The title is a reference to a perfect game in the bowling, in which a bowler scores 300 points. A two-player version of this four-player game was released as Top Score.

Description

Gottlieb sold this game design in the two varieties, although they are essentially the same game (with slight artwork differences). The two-player version, Top Score, had a lower price and was released later than the four-player "300", and was targeted to game operators with a smaller budget. This game used animated backbox red (bowling) balls for the bonus unit. Two kickout holes, two pop bumpers, one spinning target, one slingshots, 4 standup targets, 1 rollover, and two 3-inch flippers. It has the same right side lane scoring as Gottlieb Sheriff pinball (1971), and similar left side score as Gottlieb Super Soccer. Only a couple Gottlieb pinball games made during the 1970s used a backbox animation. The game has the same mechanical backbox animation as Super Soccer pinball. They made 8,125 (232 of which are samples) Gottlieb "300" pinball machines, and 3,304 (104 of which are samples) Gottlieb Top Score pinball machines. Over the course of its lifetime "300" has received high rating from users such as 7.4 stars.

External links

• Internet Pinball Database entry for "300"
• Internet Pinball Database entry for Top Score
• Webpage of the Institute of Control Engineering of the Helmut-Schmidt-University