Pinball Memories IIThis is Gottlieb's Troubador, the first pinball game that I can remember playing regularly. It came out in 1967, when I was in seventh grade. There was a new pool hall in the next town over, which advertised itself as family-friendly. In addition to the pool tables they had this little pinball machine.
Troubador was a fairly simple game to understand. Light up the numbers 1-4 in any of four different colors to light the specials, which were located in the kickout holes in the center. The odd thing about the kickout holes was that they passed the ball to the next kickout hole on the right, with the exception of the green one, which passed the ball down to the flippers. If you got the ball in the white hole, it would pass it to the red hole, and then the yellow and finally the green. The game was not particularly difficult and I still remember the first time I got all four specials in a row.
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