# Can anyone identify via description what vintage pinball table I used to own? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 2, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-via-description-what-vintage-pinball-table-i-used-to-own/820661 "2018-09-02T21:27:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-via-description-what-vintage-pinball-table-i-used-to-own/820661/1 "2018-09-02T21:27:35Z")
Basically my family owned a pinball table for much of the 90’s my dad picked up at a garage sale for $20. The pinball table seemed 70’s vintage as it was entirely analog, the score counter was done via wheels with numbers printed on them. It had a racing theme, old school 1930’s style open cockpit racing IIRC. Very colorful front board but besides the score wheel it was pretty sparse for details. The table itself also seemed a bit sparse, standard plunger and 3 balls for each play setup. Made lots of noise and played a theme when you first started it up but besides that theme didn’t make any real noise besides the dinging of the ball around the board and bumpers. I also remember there really wasn’t much in the way of obstacles on the board, it was fairly open except for 3 white bumpers around the middle of the board and the standard targets to hit on the sides but besides that it was a pretty boring pinball table to play. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-via-description-what-vintage-pinball-table-i-used-to-own/820661/2 "2018-09-02T23:48:14Z")
Gottleib made a Road Race game in 1969. This was just a couple of years before mahines began to get fancier with music and more active displays and playfields. > **[Road Race Pinball Machine (Gottlieb, 1969) | Pinside Game Archive](https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/road-race)** > > Find out everything about Road Race (Gottlieb, 1969) pinball machine; General game details, ratings and reviews, photos, videos, high scores, places to play and find machines currently for sale on our market place. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-via-description-what-vintage-pinball-table-i-used-to-own/820661/3 "2018-09-03T03:48:19Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Gottleib made a Road Race game in 1969. This was just a couple of years before mahines began to get fancier with music and more active displays and playfields. > > [https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/road-race](https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/road-race) The table layout looks 100% right but the art was different, more auto focused with less people. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-via-description-what-vintage-pinball-table-i-used-to-own/820661/4 "2018-09-03T04:12:25Z")
It’s possible Gottlieb made versions with different backglass pictures. Service companies usually owned and operated these machines and replaced a broken backglass with their own image or used a backglass from a different machine. The same backbox was used for a lot of machines and the backglasses were interchangeable.