Sources
Contributors to this record: Flipcommons Catalog, Flipcommons AI Descriptions (MachineModel).
- theme
- CircusFlipcommons Catalog
- description
- Flipcommons AI Descriptions (MachineModel)*Jack in the box* is [[manufacturer:bensa-sas]]'s single-player rebuild of [[manufacturer:gottlieb]]'s *[[model:jack-in-the-box]]*, one of several Gottlieb designs the [[location:italy/mi/milan]] maker reproduced without licence as *bootleg* copies.[1] It carries over the American game's [[theme:circus]] treatment: where Gottlieb's four-player table was built around a ten-bank of drop targets and spun off a two-player twin, *Jumping Jack*, Bensa reduced the layout to a single player.[2] Collectors have singled out its drop targets — which fall flat into the playfield rather than simply dropping — as the clearest tell of the Gottlieb source,[3] and noted that even the coin door was made to pass for a Gottlieb's, part of the close mimicry that marked the firm's remanufacturing through the mid-1970s.[4]
- model_relationship
- Jack In The Box (Gottlieb 1973) (relationship_type: copy) (license_status: unknown)[5]Flipcommons Catalog
- status
- activeFlipcommons Catalog
- slug
- jack-in-the-box-bensa-sasFlipcommons Catalog
Citations
- Pinside — https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bensa-italian-pinball
One bit of info is they are a copy of the gottlieb pinballs around the same year.
- Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) — Internet Pinball Database (IPDB) #1277
Players: 4 [...] 10-bank drop targets [...] The 2-player version is Gottlieb's 1973 'Jumping Jack'.
- Pinside — https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bensa-italian-pinball
That "Jack in the Box" looks very interesting, with the on the playfield drop down and lay flat targets ( kinda like InterFlip's Dragon) .
- Pinside — https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bensa-italian-pinball
On IPDB it shows Bensa of Milan. 1973 to 1975 made or remanufactured machines as the coin door looks like a Gottlieb.
- TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/bensa
Jack in the box