Line #6 Pinball/ElDorado


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4	''For the 1966 Western starring Creator/JohnWayne and Robert Mitchum, [[Film/ElDorado click here.]]''
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6	''El Dorado'' is a single-player electro-mechanical [[PhysicalPinballTable pinball machine]], designed by Creator/EdKrynski with artwork by Creator/GordonMorison. It was produced by Creator/{{Gottlieb}} and released in 1975.
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8	The name refers to a mythical lost city of gold, with the backglass depicting a group of cowboys who've just found an (unseen) fortune. The game itself is deceptively simple; use the four flippers to knock down all fifteen drop targets, then hit the single lit target for a Special. However, hitting all the targets and rollovers requires skillful nudging and flipper control, and moving the lit spot and hitting it on the same ball is a challenge for most players.
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10	Pinball connoisseurs consider ''El Dorado'' a classic Gottlieb "wedgehead" game, and it is frequently rated highly among all electro-mechanical tables. Gottlieb must have agreed, as the game was remade and re-released several times:
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12	* An add-a-ball version called ''Gold Strike'' (1975)
13	* An Italian version called ''Lucky Strike''[[note]]No relation to the cigarette company[[/note]] (1975)
14	* A four-player science-fiction game called ''Target Alpha'' (1976)
15	* A two-player replay game called ''Solar City'' (1977)
16	* A promotional game for ''Canada Dry'' (1977), released in France for a contest.
17	* An updated remake, ''El Dorado: City of Gold'' (1984)
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19	Digital versions of ''El Dorado: City of Gold'' are available for [=FarSight=] Studios' select versions of ''Gottlieb Pinball Classics'', ''Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection'', and fully on ''VideoGame/ThePinballArcade'', with the original table also digitally-recreated for ''The Pinball Arcade''.
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21	Not to be confused with an [[SimilarlyNamedWorks identically named]] [[VideoGame/ZenPinball digital pinball table from Zen Studios]].
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23	!!The ''El Dorado'' pinball and its variations demonstrate the following tropes:
24	%%* CityOfGold[=/=]{{Mayincatec}}: ''El Dorado: City of Gold,'' unsurprisingly.
25	* CoolHelmet:
26	** The aliens in ''Solar City'' wear ornately colorful winged helmets.
27	** Some of the people in ''Target Alpha'' wear brightly-colored helmets with large fins.
28	* FantasyCounterpartCulture: ''Solar City'' depicts a group of aliens meant to be a knock to Native Americans, complete with braids, buckskins, and bows.
29	%%* GoldFever: The theme of ''El Dorado, Gold Strike,'' and ''Lucky Strike.''
30	* JungleDrums: ''El Dorado: City of Gold'' (which is set in a jungle) constantly plays the sound of drums.
31	* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title refers to the poem "Eldorado" by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, about a knight searching for the legendary city of gold.
32	%%* MerchandiseDriven: The ''Canada Dry'' pinball.
33	%%* TheMockbuster: ''El Dorado: City of Gold,'' which attempts to invoke ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' and ''Film/RomancingTheStone''
34	%%-->'''Advertisement:''' "Exciting graphic package with up-to-date romantic adventure theme!"
35	%%* NoPlotNoProblem
36	%%* TheRemake: ''El Dorado: City of Gold''
37	* SigilSpam: Unsurprisingly, the backglass and playfield for ''Canada Dry'' is heavily decorated with the drink's logo.
38	* SpaceClothes: ''Target Alpha'' shows people in the future wearing garishly-colored jumpsuits and helmets with large fins.
39	* SpellingBonus:
40	** ''Canada Dry'' uses D-R-I-N-K and C-A-N-A-D-A-[space]-D-R-Y for its drop target banks.
41	** ''El Dorado: City of Gold'' has C-I-T-Y-O-F-G-O-L-D for the top set of drop targets.
42	* StockFootage: Some of the art for ''Target Alpha'' is reused in ''Solar City'', such as the smiling man and woman on the playfield plastics.
43	%%* UpdatedRerelease: Some of the derivative games can be seen as this trope.
44	%%* TheWildWest: Seen in ''El Dorado, Gold Strike,'' and ''Lucky Strike.''
45	* WingedHumanoid: ''Solar City'' features humanoid aliens with large feathered wings.

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