Black Hole

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Rating:
4.09 / 5
Average Prices: USD $400 to $1,900
Manufacturer: D. Gottlieb & Company
Produced: October, 1981
Production Run: 8,774 units
Machine Type: Solid State Electronic
MPU: Gottlieb System 80
Players: 4
Design by: John Buras, Adolf Seitz Jr.
Art by: Terry Doerzaph
Black Hole is a pinball game released in 1981 by Gottlieb. It is notable for having two playfields: one on top with a conventional slope, and one mounted underneath, sloping away from the player.

History
Black Hole was the first machine to feature a lower playfield viewed through a window in the upper playfield. It was touted as the highest-grossing pinball game of all time shortly after its release, partly due to (or despite) the fact that it was the first pinball game which cost 50 cents to play.

It has appeared as an "extra" in the movies Les Compères (1983), Strange Brew (1983), and Next Of Kin (1989).

The attract mode included robotic like speech generated by a Votrax SC01, which taunted the phrase "Do You Dare To Enter The Black Hole?". This slogan was etched in the vinyl runout grooves on LP versions of the band Hovercraft's 1997 album, Akathisia.

It features as one of the playable pinball machines in the video game Gottlieb Pinball Classics, released for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Wii.

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Cost Location Date
USD $975 Colorado, United States 11 June, 2024
USD $2,800 New York, United States 02 December, 2023
USD $3,000 Ohio, United States 02 December, 2023
USD $2,550 Minnesota, United States 04 November, 2023
USD $3,000 California, United States 03 November, 2023
USD $3,500 Georgia, United States 08 June, 2023
GBP £2,500 United Kingdom 31 May, 2023
USD $4,200 Texas, United States 03 March, 2023
GBP £1,608 Nuneaton, United Kingdom 23 January, 2023
USD $2,995 California, United States 30 December, 2022

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