BROOKS N’ DUNN (Gottlieb/Premier 1996) - Rare, only 12 playfields made.

 
 

Here is a NOS original 1996 Gottlieb BROOKS N’ DUNN playfield.  This game was going into production when Gottlieb went out of business in 1996.  Only two working prototype games with functioning software were made and are now owned (stolen according to Robert Fesjian) by an ex-Gottlieb executive (Gil Pollock).  Both games were on test locations in the Chicagoland area in 1996.  Ten extra playfields and parts (ramps, playfield parts, clear plastic sets without artwork and a wired whitewood playfield) were made but only the functioning software exists on the two working prototype games.  Translites were also made but they were sold separately to someone else from the parts/playfields/whitewood transaction.  The wired whitewood playfield is in a black cabinet and it runs incomplete software made up of mainly chucks of code from Barb Wire (Gottlieb’s last production game).  Brooks and Dunn were never paid any licensing fee for this game since Gottlieb went out of business.  In fact, according to Robert Fesjian (GTB license holder now), Brooks and Dunn were both told that this game never made it beyond a whitewood stage because any artwork with their image on it would cause legal issues.  Both of the games and all the remaining parts were scheduled to be destroyed in 1996 but this never happened and were stolen out of the engineering lab at Gottlieb when they went out of busiess.    Robert Fesjian has stated that if someone would build a Brooks N’ Dunn game from the ‘stolen’ parts that he will confiscate the game.  Also if the two BND complete games would ever surface the pinball community that they would also be seized.  This is why the two missing original BND games have been hidden from view and will never show up for sale.