Uploaded March 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
For your viewing pleasure today we have a Gold Record pinball machine made by Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing in 1975.
Chicago Coin gets a lot of static for making some pretty crappy pinball machines, but this one is just as fun as many Bally/Williams/Gottlieb games of the era. Sometimes repairing CCM machines can be mildly painful because of their poorly designed score reels.
Anyway, this game isn't terrible. Knock down the five drop targets to light the two stationary targets. Making the stationary targets, when lit, light the outlanes for special and extra ball. It would have been nice if these features could be obtained without draining the ball, but this was pretty common back then. The spinning disk, when lit for 1k, is the key to scoring big points fast on this game and when it's clean and moving properly it can really get some spins going. The trick is getting it lit for 1k and then avoiding the rollover buttons to keep it that way.
The artwork on this game isn't amazing and steals pretty blatantly from popular artists of the time like Joe Cocker and John Lennon. The chimes during this era were literally a doorbell unit and kinda suck.
Gold Record is the four player version of "Top Ten", which is the two player version. It was designed by Albin Peters, Jerry Koci and Wendell McAdams,
More information on Gold Record can be found here:
ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1034
For your viewing pleasure today we have a Gold Record pinball machine made by Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing in 1975.
Chicago Coin gets a lot of static for making some pretty crappy pinball machines, but this one is just as fun as many Bally/Williams/Gottlieb games of the era. Sometimes repairing CCM machines can be mildly painful because of their poorly designed score reels.
Anyway, this game isn't terrible. Knock down the five drop targets to light the two stationary targets. Making the stationary targets, when lit, light the outlanes for special and extra ball. It would have been nice if these features could be obtained without draining the ball, but this was pretty common back then. The spinning disk, when lit for 1k, is the key to scoring big points fast on this game and when it's clean and moving properly it can really get some spins going. The trick is getting it lit for 1k and then avoiding the rollover buttons to keep it that way.
The artwork on this game isn't amazing and steals pretty blatantly from popular artists of the time like Joe Cocker and John Lennon. The chimes during this era were literally a doorbell unit and kinda suck.
Gold Record is the four player version of "Top Ten", which is the two player version. It was designed by Albin Peters, Jerry Koci and Wendell McAdams,
More information on Gold Record can be found here:
ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1034
