 "The mighty warrior of the gods challenges you." |
"Enter the battlefield of MARS...Overlooking his home planet, the god of war supervises battle on this fantastic new pinball playfield. Great features such as Hyperforce, selectable pop bumpers, the stargate ramp, "Last Chance" ball, and many others, entertain and thrill all brave warriors who enter here. So gaze closely upon MARS. Once seen he is never forgotten." Gottlieb came up with "Hyperforce" as an alternative term for "multi-ball", which Williams had sensibly registered for their own use. Gottlieb used the term to mean "A multiple ball feature that plays in either 2-ball or 3-ball modes, with 3x or 5x playfield scoring", but to everyone it was just plain multi-ball. On the promotional flyer, the depicted game has a different cabinet paint-scheme, where the planet is red-orange and outer space is black. In production these colours were reversed. Only a few sample games left the factory with this black paint scheme, although it's not known how many. As Mars is the red planet, the original paint scheme was arguably better than the production scheme. Designer John Osbourne (also the Haunted House designer) stated that the tube shot on Mars was a direct steal from Bally's "Xenon". Just to be fair to their other Chicago rivals, Gottlieb also lifted the background sound for Mars from Williams' "Blackout". Mars was the first Gottlieb pinball with speech and it also had the largest repertoire of all the System 80 games. |
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