Quintette

The 1953 Gottlieb Quintette, manufactured in March 1953 and designed by Wayne Neyens with art by Roy Parker, is a single-player electro-mechanical machine built around a pageantry theme. Themed pinball games were already an established convention by the early 1950s, so Quintette is best appreciated as a well-executed example of Gottlieb's card-and-pageant era rather than a trailblazer of the concept.

Quintette features two flippers and four pop bumpers, along with five gobble holes that add a layer of risk-and-reward strategy to each ball. Its layout is relatively compact even by early-1950s standards, offering the kind of straightforward but satisfying challenge typical of Gottlieb's output at the time.

The artwork carries Gottlieb's characteristic colorful, whimsical style of the period, tied to the game's pageantry theme. With 1,200 units produced, Quintette remains a modest but appealing piece of Gottlieb's early-1950s EM catalog for collectors interested in the era.