Slick Chick
Slick Chick is a single player wedge head pinball machine designed by Wayne Neyens and released by Gottlieb in April 1963.
Slick Chick
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- 1963
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Key facts
Key facts
• Title — Slick Chick • Manufacturer — D. Gottlieb & Co. • Designer — Wayne Neyens • Artwork — Roy Parker • Release — April 1963 • Production — 4,550
Design and layout
Design and layout
The game designer, Wayne Neyens, conceived of the name "Party Girls" after designing a layout including nine criss-crossing bumpers. Others thought the name was too risque so Neyens looked for two other five letter words with a common middle letter; he took inspiration from a Chicago restaurant and called it Slick Chick. The five central bumpers are pop bumpers, with the four outer ones "simple bumpers". The playfield is symmetrical. The game uses a deeper cabinet than prior Gottlieb machines, and has a large chrome coin door. An "auto-clamp" feature was introduced to lock the playfield in position using a spring-loaded lever. The backglass and playfield include bunny girls.
Gameplay
Gameplay
The main objective of the game is to spell S-L-I-C-K C-H-I-C-K by hitting the bumpers in order, or by hitting various other targets around the playfield. Each time the name is completed a rollover target is lit, and after all five are lit the player is awarded a replay if they lose the ball in the gobble hole in the middle of the table. A replay can also be awarded if four rollovers at the sides of the table are completed in order.
Digital version
Digital version
Slick Chick is one of seven Gottlieb tables recreated and released in Microsoft Pinball Arcade in 1998.
History of the object
Dated record
History of the object
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1963
Slick Chick created.
1963
Slick Chick is recorded from 1963.
Reception
In Bueschel's Encyclopedia of Pinball it was ranked the 77th best pinball machine by a group of pinball historians, regarding it as "one of the finest skill games ever made".
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Licensing
Text attribution
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The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Slick Chick (pinball), revision 1358457692 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Neyens, Wayne. Slick Chick. Pinball Magazine. 5. 192-194. 2018. 978-90-816266-6-8.
- 2.Shalhoub, Michael. The pinball compendium, 1930s-1960s. Schiffer Pub. 157. 2002. 978-0-7643-1527-5.
- 3.Crow, Phil. Pinball Forgotten Classics - Slick Chick. Pinball Wizard. 18-20. Spring 2008.
- 4.Rossignoli, Marco. Pinball snapshots: Air Aces to Xenon. Schiffer Pub. 189. 2004. 978-0-7643-2109-2.
- 5.Young, Steve. Scoring concepts. Coin Slot. 53. 20-21. July 1979.
- 6.Bueschel, Richard M. Encyclopedia Of Pinball - Whiffle to Rocket 1930-1933 - Volume 1. Silverball Amusements. 247. November 1996. 1-889933-01-5.
- 7.Atkin, Denny. Reviews - Give No Quarter(s). Computer Gaming World. 176. 164. March 1999.
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 19 August 2026.
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