Sweet Sioux

Sweet Sioux, designed by Wayne Neyens with art by Roy Parker, was released by D. Gottlieb & Company in September 1959. It's a four-player electro-mechanical machine with a Native Americans theme, featuring two flippers, three pop bumpers, two slingshots, two gobble holes, two bullseye targets, two standup targets, and a single roto-target. The replay wheel maxes out at 26.

One of the game's more distinctive competitive features is its double match: if players 1 and 2, or players 3 and 4, land on matching digits, that pair is awarded 10 replays (operator-adjustable) -- a scoring quirk built around the four-player pairing rather than true cooperative play. The backglass carries Gottlieb's well-known slogan, "Amusement Pinballs, as American as Baseball and Hot Dogs!"

An after-factory option for operators added metal side rails over the machine's existing wood rails, fitted and nailed to the cabinet sides. Sweet Sioux had a confirmed production run of 1,350 units. While specific claims about it being among the first Native American-themed pinball machines can't be confirmed, it remains a well-documented example of Gottlieb's late-1950s four-player EM output.