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Offline Steevsee

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« on: November 29, 2011, 11:14:28 AM »
My wife was talking to one of the doctors at work and somehow got around to talking about pinball machines.
To her surprise (and mine) he mentioned that he currently has a TZ and a DW. @@* @@*
He also spoke to her about a pinball game that he used to play at Uni, described as "..having dinosaurs and a video game like pac-man."

Now I assume he might be referring to GTB's Caveman.


Seems like they might be pretty rare these days, with the one in the vid going to a museum. !@#

One on Ebay in the states ATM http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gottlieb-Caveman-Pinball-built-in-video-game-great-kids-game-/320801145273

Just wonder if many of these are in Australia? 

Anyone seen or played one of these before?




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Re: GTB Caveman
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2011, 11:33:51 AM »
I know of one member on here who has one but it's a project hopefully he gets it going.

 Speaking of that where did you go Shansta

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Re: GTB Caveman
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2011, 12:09:52 PM »
I loved to play this back in the 80's
not that i could ever get a free game out of it from score, but it did give me a credit from a match every now and then
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Re: GTB Caveman
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2011, 12:22:43 AM »

Very rare. I know of two in the country - Shansta has one of them.

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