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Alvin G. and Co. brief history and manufactured pinball machines
By onegentleman
Alvin G. and Co. released 13 machines starting in 1991 but some of them were prototypes only.
   
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Overview
Brief history of the company 1991 - 1994 
Alvin G. and Co. pinball tables 
Alvin G. and Co. in The Pinball Arcade 
Al's Garage Band Goes On a World Tour, 1992 
Pistol Poker, 1993 
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Brief history of the company 1991 - 1994
Formed in 1991 by Alvin Gottlieb, the son of Gottlieb founder David Gottlieb, Alvin G. & Co. was the family's attempt to get back into the pinball business after the original Gottlieb was sold off in the 1970s. They weren't able to use the Gottlieb name, and had to build out their own new factory space in a warehouse west of the Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Part, Illinois.

Alvin G. was relatively shortlived, putting out around half-a-dozen tables before closing down in 1994.
Alvin G. and Co. pinball tables
A.G. Soccer-Ball
Alvin G. & Co, 1991
500 produced

A.G. Football
Alvin G. & Co, 1992
500 produced

U.S.A. Football
Alvin G. & Co, 1992
100 produced

Al's Garage Band goes on a World Tour
Alvin G. & Co, 1992
1,000 produced

Dual-Pool
Alvin G. & Co, 1993
Prototype only, 1 produced, canceled

Maxx Badazz
Alvin G. & Co, 1993
Prototype only, canceled

Punchy the Clown
Alvin G. & Co, 1993
103 produced

USA Football (redemption game)
Alvin G. & Co, 1993
Prototype only, 11 produced, canceled

Dinosaur Eggs
Alvin G. & Co, 1993
100 produced

Mystery Castle
Alvin G. & Co, 1993
227 produced

Pistol Poker
Alvin G. & Co, 1993
200 produced

A-Maze-Ing Baseball
Alvin G. & Co, 1994
Prototype only, 1 produced, canceled

Slam 'N Jam
Alvin G. & Co, 1994
Prototype only, 2 produced, canceled

All machines were Solid State Pinball.
Alvin G. and Co. in The Pinball Arcade
we have Alvin G. and Co. Pack in The Pinball Arcade with 2 tables:
Al's Garage Band Goes on a World Tour and Pistol Poker

https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/steamstore/app/908226/Pinball_Arcade_Alvin_G_and_Co_Pack/

below detailed description of this 2 tables
Al's Garage Band Goes On a World Tour, 1992
Concept by: Michael Gottlieb
Design by: Jerry Armstrong
Art by: Dan Hughes, Tim Elliott, Andy G. Reynolds
Music and sound by: Kyle Johnson

Fred Young did voice characterizations on this game.
Designer Wally Welch told us that John Boyston was the lead electrical engineer for this game and Jim Studnicka did some miscellaneous drafting and detailing of drawings. Both are listed in the personnel credits on the apron.
Michael Gottlieb told us that Al's Garage Band was based on people he knew: Al, Gloria, Delmore, and Dr. Skins. Only one, Stitchy, was not a real person.

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Pistol Poker, 1993
Design by: Wally Welch, Michael Gottlieb
Art by: Dan Hughes
Music and sound by: Matt Scott, Kyle Johnson

Fred Young did voice characterizations on this game.
Todd Tuckey told us of an email he received from artist Daniel Hughes where Hughes told him, "I don't know if you were aware but I worked some of the folks who created the Pistol Poker game into the playfield art. The El Gusano (the worm) wanted poster is Wally Welch the game designer, the piano player is Kyle Johnson the music and sound designer and I am at the card table tipping my hat at the bar maid."

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