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Used Gottlieb pinball machines

David Gottlieb started D. Gottlieb & Co. in Chicago in 1927, and Gottlieb's Humpty Dumpty introduced flippers in 1947. Columbia Pictures bought the company in 1976, it was renamed Mylstar in 1983, and in October 1984 a management group bought the pinball business and ran it as Premier Technology, still selling under the Gottlieb name. Its solid-state games ran System 1 from the late 1970s, System 80 from 1980 and System 3 from 1989. Premier closed in summer 1996, so there's no factory support. Older Gottliebs have painted glass backglasses that can flake, and some, like Haunted House, used glowing tube displays instead of neon plasma.

4 machines we cover.