Download Alice in Wonderland (Gottlieb 1948) 6.0.0

Many thanks go to JP Salas!  He was kind enough to take on a historical recreation project I started over a year ago, called Project Alice - here:

https://www.vpforums...showtopic=49604

"Papa Smurf" was amazing and just great to work with!  he created the table very quickly and then and our testing back-and-forth was very fun and productive.  This yielded possibly one of the most accurate historical reproductions of the earliest flipper-based pinball games ever created.  For the true purists out there, the only deviation from being 100% accurate are two things:  One, the real game had no knocker, both JP and I decided we love knockers (heh) so we elected to put one in the game, it is much nicer and easier to notice you have won a special or free game credit.  The other thing that's not quite real is the attract mode lighting.  We have no images, movies or information about what the game did in between games, so JP made a very beautiful light show for the attract mode! 

This would be the third or possibly fourth production game ever to have flippers.  Humpty Dumpty was the first and this game was a "sister" to it, very similar in layout and in the same series, released the following year.  Gottlieb introduced the "Fairytale" series of 3 or 4 new flipper based games in 1947 and 1948.  They all had a Mother Goose or Nursery Rhyme themed motif.  Humpty Dumpty was the first, second was Lady Robin Hood, I believe, and this would have been #3 in the Gottlieb "Fairytale" series from 1947-1948 from what I have been able to gather.

Many thanks go to JP!  He is probably one of if not the most prolific table authors out there, and once again he's hit a Home Run out of the park! 

Mr.T

Amazing work JpSalas and thanks for the informative and touching story you shared Mister Transistor. Team ups are the best!

Merci merci encore merci pour toutes ces merveilleuses tables

Bravo !

Lovely work sir. My best buddy Steve Charland (rip) had all of the fairy tale series and they were a sight to see all lined up together. Good memories, thanks JP

Any time these '50s and '60s pins (or in this case, 1940s!) make it to VPX, it's a cause for celebration as a lot of them aren't even in pinball museums anymore. Thanks guys! Much appreciated.

Thank you for creating this old wood rail pinball table! It plays really nice and with mechanical tilt, sweet

Thank you, Mister Transistor and JP! Not far off from Humpty Dumpty, is it?

Gracias JP y colaboradores, bonita tabla!

Thank you, Mister Transistor and JP! Not far off from Humpty Dumpty, is it?

Yes, indeed!  It's part of the same series, or a "sister" game to it in the Gottlieb "Fairytale" series, from 1947-1948.  Humpty Dumpty was first in the series and is credited with being the first flipper game ever.  From my research Alice would have been the third game to ever have flippers (Lady Robin Hood would have been #2).  The production run only consisted of 1000 units.

But yes, the overall table design and game play is very similar to Humpty Dumpty.  In fact, JP and I studied all of the available videos of it, since there is almost nothing out there on Alice specifically, and there's not much more on Humpty Dumpty, but there is a little bit more to draw on.  Since the games were so similar it gave us a lot of information we were missing on minor details of the game play and scoring, etc.