

#8 Sep.81 - Sound/Speech Board Modifications.#4 Apr.81 - Roto-target, New York New York video.#3 Mar.81 - Flippers, Pink Panther Book-keeping, Coil Chart.#1 Jan.81 - Drop-targets, Aux.Lamp Driver, Force II.The ON TARGET newsletter archive is hosted at by Tom McCLintock. In any case we recommend finding an original on Ebay or buying an original or quality copy from The Pinball Resource, the only company licensed to reproduce Gottlieb manuals. Game Specific Manuals - Scans of some specific game manuals can be found on a few web archives that Gottlieb Development LLC couldn't shut down because they're located outside of the USA. Gottlieb 1983 Pinball & Video Games Technical Seminar Manual (download from: Clay's System 80 Repairs page).Service Bulletin # 12-P0182, 14.Jan.82: Haunted House Game PROM info.Service Bulletin # 04-P0182, 14.Jan.82: Switch arcing in Kicking rubber coils / targets using 38 VDC.Service Bulletin # 10-P1181, 12.Nov.81: Black Hole transistor change / Pull-up resistor modification.Service Bulletin # 04-P0681, 8.Jun.81: Background Sound remaining on after Game Over (games with sound/speech).In it's day a useful guide, but nowaydays outclassed by Clay Harrell's Pinball Repair Guides, which are clearly written and superbly illustrated, covering most pinball machine makes and series, including System 80.

It contains a lot of information but it looks like it was put together with an ancient typewriter and Xerox machine, with no logical order to the contents. Joel "Pinball Lizard" Cook and Vickie Huisenga took a lot of material from these Gottlieb service bulletins and "On Target" newsletters, added in their own experiences and produced the 1994 "Black Hole/Haunted House Club of America". Gottlieb also published a technical newsletter called "ON TARGET" covering both pinball and video games, between November 1980 and March 1984. Besides the usual game specific instruction manuals with schematics, Gottlieb issued a series of Service Bulletins to operators as new games were released and faults were uncovered.

This page is to guide you in the direction of some interesting paperwork.
