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Cue Ball Wizard

Cue Ball Wizard is a pinball machine designed by Jon Norris and released in December 18 1992 by Gottlieb. It features a cue sports theme and was advertised with the slogan "Gottlieb Presents CUE BALL WIZARD!".

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Cue Ball Wizard
ManufacturerGottlieb
Release dateOctober 1992
DesignJon Norris
ArtworkDavid Moore, Constantino Mitchell, Jeanine Mitchell
Production run5,700

Cue Ball Wizard is a pinball machine designed by Jon Norris and released in December 18 1992 by Gottlieb. It features a cue sports theme and was advertised with the slogan "Gottlieb Presents CUE BALL WIZARD!".1

Design

Cue Ball Wizard has a two and three ball Multiball and an oscillating captive ball kicker at the upper playfield. Its most noticeable feature, a full-sized captive cue ball that can be used to hit two elevated targets, is placed below on the lower playfield.

Due to the low cost of this cue ball feature, the budget for the game enabled an elevated motorized turret to be added.2

The ramp is the game's most important shot, as it has to be hit once to light it up for the wagon wheel award.34

Gameplay

The wagon wheel contains all the modes the player must complete to reach Pool Ball Mania status.567

The game includes two video modes. For one of these the player chooses an award from one of three curtains, but the award is predetermined making the choice meaningless. In the other video mode the player attempts to catch a series of four balls in a slow moving receptacle.8

Digital versions

Cue Ball Wizard is one of seven Gottlieb tables recreated and released in the PC version of Microsoft Pinball Arcade in 1998.9

Cue Ball Wizard is available as a licensed table of The Pinball Arcade for several platforms.10

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Internet Pinball Machine Database: Premier 'Cue Ball Wizard'". Ipdb.org. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  2. Norris, Jon (March 2007). "PA Pinball Presents - An Interview with Jon Norris" (Interview).
  3. "Pinball Archive Rule Sheet: Cue Ball Wizard". Pinball.org. 1993-05-04. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  4. Shalhoub, Michael (2012). The pinball compendium: 1982 to present (revised and expanded 2nd ed.). Atglen, Pa: Schiffer Publishing. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-7643-4107-6.
  5. "CUE BALL WIZARD PINBALL BY GOTTLIEB 1992 at WWW.PINBALLREBEL.COM". Pinballrebel.com. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
  6. Rosenhouse, Robert (1992). "Playing the field - Cue Ball Wizard" (PDF). The Flipside. Vol. 2, no. 1. pp. 12–13.
  7. "Premier picks". RePlay. Vol. 18, no. 2. November 1992. pp. 62, 90.
  8. solar_espeon (2026-05-01). "Top Ten: Worst Pinball Video Modes of the 90s". www.kineticist.com. Retrieved 2026-05-08.
  9. "Microsoft Pinball Arcade". pc.ign.com. February 11, 1999. Archived from the original on 2002-02-18. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
  10. "Table Pack 19 and 20 coming The Pinball Arcade in 2014 for PS3 and Vita". PSNStores. 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2015-08-26.
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