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Some like this machine , some don't, personally I love it and think it deserves it's place in pinball history. It is seen as a difficult machine to play as the ball drains down the sides a lot but that's where you need to use your playing skills to prevent the ball from going near the sides too often.
The gameplay on Gorgar looks quite basic at first, but like most machines from that era there is an order of gameplay that should be followed to get the most out of it. There are 2 x banks of 3 targets, the top bank spells out G-O-R, the middle bank spells out G-A-R, scoring G-O-R-G-A-R changes the eject hole value each time until Extra Ball is lit ( after 3 sets of G-O-R-G-A-R ) and lights the spinner for 1000 points a spin. You also have to hit the 1, 2, 3 and 4 stationary targets around the playfield, after completing the 1, 2, 3, 4 sequence twice the red arrows on the playfield will light 1, 2, 3 or 4 in a rolling order and if you manage to hit one of them while they are lit then you score a free game, that is something that I really like about these older classics is the fact that you must do things in a certain order to get a good game out of them and then you must have a skill shot to hit certain things on the playfield at the right time as well. You also have 3 x rollovers at the top of the playfield to score A, B and C which will in turn reward you with 2X and 3X bonus,to get to them while playing a ball you have a spinner to get through on the way up to the rollover lanes which score either 100 or 1000 points depending if you have dropped targets or not. And then of course, there is The Pit ! I am not sure if it was the first machine to have the magnet but it was a pretty cool feature for it's time, basically each time you knock down a set of targets the " Pit Value " increases until you reach a massive 50,000 points. Considering that a free game was achieved at 300,000 points, then to score 50,000 of them from one shot made it a worthy goal to achieve in gameplay. Each time you hit The Pit up to 30,000 the machine said " Me got you" but when you hit The Pit lit at 50,000 the machine said " You beat Gorgar- all very basic speech but I believe the machine was a goldmine for operators due to the speech.
I have made some pages dedicated to showing how I was able to stencil and re-spray a new cabinet that I built from scratch for Gorgar, so if you want to see that just click on my links at the left of this page, you will obtain information on how I make my stencils and the method that I used to completely re-spray all new images to make my Gorgar look like new again and I will try and show you some good images of how the re-spray turned out. I have also created a page that is dedicated to my Gorgar playfield so that you are able to see how it turned out after the strip, polish and touch up. The images you see here are after the PF was restored, I love the artwork on Gorgar and have tried to show many more images on my playfield pages.
Just the one page on my Gorgar playfield, however you can see plenty of images of it at my Gorgar collage page or watch a movie of my own Gorgar machine from the link below.
Like Flash, I completely rebuilt a new cabinet for this Gorgar - you can see it being stencilled and sprayed at this page.
See some images of my whole Gorgar machine completely restored.
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