Flipper

Flipper is a historically significant pinball machine as Gottlieb's first ever "Add-A-Ball" game. Instead of winning free replays (which were banned as gambling in several regions like New York and Wisconsin at the time), players earned extra balls to extend their current game. Until this game was made, David Gottlieb was of the firm opinion that "Nothing will replace the free play as a game attraction".

The table is also recognised as Gottlieb's very first "wedgehead" style cabinet design, a distinctive wedge-shaped backbox that defined their single-player games for the next two decades. The backglass art for this game displays a stylized, tuxedo-wearing magician performing classic illusions on a stage.

Designed by the legendary Wayne Neyens with artwork by Roy Parker, this machine was released in October 1960. Gottlieb manufactured exactly 1,100 units across both woodrail and wedgehead cabinet versions, making physical units rare today.