This page includes info regarding my 1974 Gottlieb Out of Sight 2 Player EM Wedgehead Pinball game.  I got this game as part of a trade with my buddy Abrie for an Eight Ball Pinball game. Actually, I got two games for the Eight Ball - Out of Sight and Top Card. It works and has a nice playfield and excellent backglass, but there's one problem and it's a big one. Turns out that some nut out there decided to paint the game bright green, remove the coin door and frame and then fabricate his own plywood "coin door" which had the name Out of Sight crappily done by hand. Then the nut painted some pool balls on the sides of the game box. Now you would think this was bad enough, but it wasn't. A second even bigger nut got the game and decided to paint it solid black. Everything was black to match the guy's house (including female manequins with scantily clad underwear displayed). So we're talking about someone quite nutty regarding this game. Even still, I did the trade, stripped off the two layers of paint, made stencils from the original artwork that was still visible, sanded the game down to bare wood, then began painting it with the solid white background and some stencil work yet to do. I found a coin door from another collector and a coin door frame from Jim at JT Amusements for a good price. It's going to take some work to get this game back up to snuff but at least it works and everything looks nice regarding the playfield, backglass, and plastics.

There were 1,750 of these games made and it was released in December of 1974. Ed Krynski was the designer and it has beautiful artwork designed by Gordon Morison. Gottlieb also made a 4 player version and released it as "Far Out." Lots of psychedelic looking stuff going on in the backglass artwork with bright colors.

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Out of Sight Flyer