Slick Chick (pinball)
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| Manufacturer | D. Gottlieb & Co. |
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| Release date | April 1963 |
| Design | Wayne Neyens |
| Artwork | Roy Parker |
| Production run | 4,550 |
Slick Chick is a single player wedge head pinball machine designed by Wayne Neyens and released by Gottlieb in April 1963.
Design and layout
The game designer, Wayne Neyens, conceived of the name "Party Girls" after designing a layout including nine criss-crossing bumpers. Others thought the name was too risque so Neyens looked for two other five letter words with a common middle letter; he took inspiration from a Chicago restaurant and called it Slick Chick.[1][2] The five central bumpers are pop bumpers, with the four outer ones "simple bumpers".[3] The playfield is symmetrical.[1]
The game uses a deeper cabinet than prior Gottlieb machines, and has a large chrome coin door. An "auto-clamp" feature was introduced to lock the playfield in position using a spring-loaded lever.[4] The backglass and playfield include bunny girls.[3]
Gameplay
The main objective of the game is to spell S-L-I-C-K C-H-I-C-K by hitting the bumpers in order, or by hitting various other targets around the playfield. Each time the name is completed a rollover target is lit,[5] and after all five are lit the player is awarded a replay if they lose the ball in the gobble hole in the middle of the table. A replay can also be awarded if four rollovers at the sides of the table are completed in order.[3]
Reception
In Bueschel's Encyclopedia of Pinball it was ranked the 77th best pinball machine by a group of pinball historians, regarding it as "one of the finest skill games ever made".[6]
Digital version
Slick Chick is one of seven Gottlieb tables recreated and released in Microsoft Pinball Arcade in 1998.[7]
References
- 1 2 Neyens, Wayne; Joosten, Jonathan (2018). "Slick Chick". Pinball Magazine. No. 5. pp. 192–194. ISBN 978-90-816266-6-8.
{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link) - ↑ Shalhoub, Michael (2002). The pinball compendium, 1930s-1960s. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-7643-1527-5.
- 1 2 3 Crow, Phil (Spring 2008). "Pinball Forgotten Classics - Slick Chick". Pinball Wizard. pp. 18–20.
- ↑ Rossignoli, Marco; McGuiness, Graham (2004). Pinball snapshots: Air Aces to Xenon. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-7643-2109-2.
- ↑ Young, Steve (July 1979). "Scoring concepts". Coin Slot. No. 53. pp. 20–21.
- ↑ Bueschel, Richard M. (November 1996). Encyclopedia Of Pinball - Whiffle to Rocket 1930-1933 - Volume 1. Silverball Amusements. p. 247. ISBN 1-889933-01-5.
- ↑ Atkin, Denny (March 1999). "Reviews - Give No Quarter(s)". Computer Gaming World. No. 176. p. 164.
External links
- Slick Chick at the Internet Pinball Database
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