Manufacturer · Northlake, IL
Gottlieb
The oldest name. The purest machines.
Editorial Overview
The oldest name in pinball, Gottlieb was founded by David Gottlieb in 1927 and helped invent the modern form of the game. Their EM-era machines are celebrated for elegant, clean design and beautiful artwork — very different from the bombast that followed. Collectors of early machines consider Gottlieb essential. Their later solid-state output remains underrated, and their final machines — Cactus Canyon, Stargate — command serious attention.
Trajectory
Gottlieb by the Numbers
A year-by-year view of Gottlieb's output, the average quality of those releases, and total production volume. Data combines OPDB catalog records with IPDB community ratings and production counts.
Trajectory
Machines Released per Year
Every Gottlieb machine in our catalog, grouped by its release year.
Quality
Average Community Rating by Year
Average IPDB community fun rating of machines released each year. Years without rated machines are not shown.
Volume
Production Units per Year
Total machines manufactured per year, summed from documented production counts. Many machines have no production data; years shown reflect what we know.
