The two pop bumpers are cleverly located and will sometimes be your friends, sending your ball into the row of falling targets symbolizing the bombs, and sometimes your enemies, deflecting your ball that you are trying to send into the fixed “Special” target.īy the way, let’s talk about these drop targets. I told you: you would have to defend yourself against the machine!
Some of these bonuses are clearly not easy to access, so you’ll have to do it several times, sometimes ending up raging against the machine because a bomb hit a base, thus reducing your scoring efforts to nothing. If in theory all this seems quite simple, in practice you will have to be very skilful because the numerous bonuses and multipliers are accessible via 4 different flippers. Indeed, you will have to destroy (as in the video game) the ugly bomb throwing ships before they reach our bases, destroy them and (if not make us lose the game, as in Space Invaders) sabotage our point multiplier and therefore ruin our precious efforts to try to get the High Score! Space Invaders, 1978 Counterforce launched 2 years later… If the parallel with the video game Space Invaders released in 1978 is quite obvious on the artwork, it is also obvious in the gameplay. So you press the start button and start the hostilities… When the video game flirts with the pinball machine…Īfter launching the ball, we understand very quickly where the game designer wants to take us: we will have to play for time and aim with precision to hope to score on this machine. Remember: “The Pinball that fights back”. The tone is set and the contract is fulfilled on this side. Plastics are used here to symbolize some elements of a city that the player has to defend at the bottom and to materialize the enemy ships at the top of the board. In the end, the playfield comes out the best with a real split between the top and the bottom, each representing respectively the attack, with the bombs falling, and the defense with the soldiers in armor pointing their blaster at the enemy. The space combat is not necessarily obvious at first glance.
A habit of Gordon Morison, illustrator at Gottlieb at the time, who used a similar colorimetry in many of his artworks (Sinbad, Charlie’s Angels or Solar Ride to name a few).Īs far as the quality of the drawing is concerned, it is unfortunately still rather messy and you’ll have to squint a bit to see the subtleties of the pencil stroke.
The backglass rectifies the situation by offering a rather detailed and colorful artwork that will at least have the merit of staying in line with the pink of the box. Without being the ugliest artwork, it is frankly not the prettiest we have seen. Well, no, not black symbolizing outer space, but a raspberry pink with white speckles (to symbolize the stars) and a few ships in black flat design attacking a city in a very basic artwork. 3 I told you: you would have to defend yourself against the machine!Ĭounterforce is a pinball game based on the theme of space battles and it is therefore logical that the design of the box is tinted with a dominant pink color.2 When the video game flirts with the pinball machine….
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