The 40th Anniversary of Gottlieb Caveman
- Jason
- Nov 25, 2022
- 1 min read
Released in May 1982, Gottlieb Caveman was the first ever pinball machine-video game hybrid. The Caveman playfield contains a monitor that players use the joystick that is built into the machine's lockbar to play at points in the game. While it is a cool game, it never really caught on in arcades. Gottlieb only ended up producing 1,800 Caveman machines.
Below are a couple of pictures that I took of a Caveman that I saw in the wild while I was on a trip to arcades in Pennsylvania. Below that are the game's original flyer courtesy of the awesome IPDB website.
When the Nostromo decides to act on what they believe to be a distress signal, a portion of the crew departs for this nearby moon. Ripley stays back on the ship link and communicates with her crew mates over the radio. In a scene where she is asking her shipmates to further investigate the nature link of the call they've received link (what would later be determined not to be a distress signal, but a warning), you can see her standing drinking a cup of coffee with her Casio F-100 in view.