Asteroid Annie & the Aliens

[stuba]

wow. look awesome, nice score 

[Strangeways]

Dean,

Have seen a few N.O.S. glasses for this game sell in the US over the past few years, so keep an eye out for them! If I see one will let you know...would be worth contacting Mike Pasac in the US

Mike Pacak NEVER answer emails... I emailed him several times without reply..

so I hear he really does not answer small timers after Backglasses ?



Great score BTW - congrats 

[The pinballist formally known as Dean Morgan]

Interestingly, when in attract mode the tune is to 'Close Encounters of the third kind'!

[pinball god]

Interesting looking game although I cannot see the connection between using Aliens and cards. The Backglass may be a play on the old card playing dogs picture or something.

[ddstoys]

Great looking machine Dean and i like the info on why they were made top

[jyebow]

Cool Machine & thread Dean, How'd I miss it 
Look forward to updates.
cheers Steve.

[pinnies4me]

The story goes that they built this game just to use up the remaining System 1 boards, don't know how true that would be though

From Clay's pinrepair.com Gottlieb Sys 1 guide -

Asteroid Annie differs from others, being a single player game (Annie was made well after Gottlieb had changed to their new System80 boardset in early 1980). The reason for this was Ed Krynski (game designer) wanted to design one more classic single player card games before he retired. A call was made to the Gottlieb service department inquiring about the number of leftover System1 CPU board, and they made 211 games based on the 300 board available in the service department's stock.

Found this the other day too, very different version than to what Clay says (which I quoted earlier) and given the source, likely closer to the truth (and Tony). Starts quite early (a page down or so) -

http://www.papinball.com/John_Buras_Interview.html

[ajlaird]

The story goes that they built this game just to use up the remaining System 1 boards, don't know how true that would be though

From Clay's pinrepair.com Gottlieb Sys 1 guide -

Asteroid Annie differs from others, being a single player game (Annie was made well after Gottlieb had changed to their new System80 boardset in early 1980). The reason for this was Ed Krynski (game designer) wanted to design one more classic single player card games before he retired. A call was made to the Gottlieb service department inquiring about the number of leftover System1 CPU board, and they made 211 games based on the 300 board available in the service department's stock.

Found this the other day too, very different version than to what Clay says (which I quoted earlier) and given the source, likely closer to the truth (and Tony). Starts quite early (a page down or so) -

http://www.papinball.com/John_Buras_Interview.html

Sorry, but the link doesn't work for me - I think their server could be down at the moment or something? Can anyone else get to the site?

[pinnies4me]

Works for me

[ajlaird]

Works for me

Yeah, working for me now, too - must have been a temporary outage.