Toreador

The Toreador, manufactured by D. Gottlieb & Company in June 1956, is an electro-mechanical two-player pinball machine designed by Wayne Neyens with artwork by Roy Parker. Its bullfighting theme gave the game a distinctive visual identity built around Spanish bullfighting imagery.

Gameplay features two flippers, four pop bumpers, two passive bumpers, four slingshots, five rollover buttons, and two gobble holes. Both gobble holes are tied to a shared bonus ladder for an end-of-ball bonus that carries over between balls, players, and games, resetting to 1 once collected. Operators could offer 10 replays for a double match, and games could be set for three or five balls, with a maximum displayed score of 999 points per player.

Only 975 units of the Toreador were produced, making it a relatively scarce title from Gottlieb's mid-1950s lineup. The backglass carries Gottlieb's well-known slogan, "Amusement Pinballs, as American as Baseball and Hot Dogs!" and the cabinet featured a redesigned "New Look" leg-mounting system that required custom internal hardware to accommodate.