Black Velvet

Black Velvet, manufactured by Game Plan, Incorporated in May 1978, comes from the earliest days of this Illinois company's pinball production. It is a solid-state electronic machine built in the cocktail table format - a low, sit-down style of pinball cabinet that Game Plan specialized in during its first years - and it accommodates up to four players.

The game was designed by Ed Cebula with artwork by Jim Sullivan, and runs on the Game Plan MPU-1 board system. IPDB lists the game as carrying a licensed theme, though details of the license are not documented in the available records.

As an early cocktail-table pinball from a young manufacturer, Black Velvet offers a glimpse at an unusual corner of the late-1970s solid-state boom, when new companies like Game Plan experimented with formats beyond the standard upright cabinet.