Vegas (pinball machine)
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The Vegas is a Gottlieb
pinball
machine with a card game
theme. It first appeared in July 1990. About 1500 were manufactured.
Several strategies
allow players to win a free game:
The motif feature graphics that were already retro
in the era of its release. The dominant color is pink with a charming hostess on the vertical display at the back of the machine.
Gottlieb
Gottlieb was an arcade game corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. The company was established by David Gottlieb in 1927, initially producing pinball machines while later expanding into various other games including pitch-and-bats, bowling games, and eventually video arcade games .Like other...
pinball
Pinball
Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass-covered case called a pinball machine. The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible...
machine with a card game
Card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. Countless card games exist, including families of related games...
theme. It first appeared in July 1990. About 1500 were manufactured.
Several strategies
Strategy
Strategy, a word of military origin, refers to a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. In military usage strategy is distinct from tactics, which are concerned with the conduct of an engagement, while strategy is concerned with how different engagements are linked...
allow players to win a free game:
- Reaching the "replay" score determined by the machine (1 credit).
- Winning in the lottery (1 credit).
- Completing the table (the 13 cards) (3 credits).
- Passing into the corridor of the "special joker" when it flickers (1 credit).
- Completing the 7 "7"s to touch the lady on the table (1 credit).
- Obtaining a mystical special (1 credit).
The motif feature graphics that were already retro
Retro
Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, that has since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. The use of "retro" style iconography and imagery interjected into post-modern art, advertising, mass media, etc...
in the era of its release. The dominant color is pink with a charming hostess on the vertical display at the back of the machine.