Magic

Magic is a solid-state electronic (SS) whitewood prototype designed by John Trudeau for D. Gottlieb & Company in the late 1970s, built around a magic theme. It was never put into production, and the playfield was later stripped and no longer exists.

Trudeau's design was notably ambitious: an attempt to route the pinball across four levels, with a clear plastic level reached via a center ramp branching left or right, two parallel playfields with viewing windows, and a fourth level visible only through a mirror beneath the second playfield. Trudeau's working tagline for the concept was "It's all done with mirrors!" The full machine featured eight flippers spread across its levels, six pop bumpers, two slingshots, a kick target, ten or more stand-up targets, and two roll-under spinners, with the simplest, bottom-most level consisting mainly of flippers and roughly six stand-up targets.

While the finished cabinet art and full rule set are not documented, the sheer structural ambition of Magic's multi-level design makes it a distinctive example of Trudeau's more experimental prototype work for Gottlieb.