Enter the haunted schoolhouse — Gottlieb’s Class of 1812 is a gleefully spooky solid-state four-player wrapped in a supernatural-comedy theme, designed by Ray Tanzer and Joe Kaminkow with art by David Moore and the Mitchells. Crowned by a beating heart and chattering teeth among its toys, and carrying a confirmed run of 1,668, it’s a fun, campy horror romp with a satisfying ramp-and-multiball game.
The strategy centers on the ramps and the Door Prize. The Door Prize will often award instant multiball, so always shoot it when it’s lit, and in multiball the Door Prize saucer pays 500K every time — a good alternative if your flippers are weak and the left ramp is a struggle. The real engine of a big game is ramp play: the flippers usually stand tall enough to cradle a ramp feed just by holding one up, so backhand the left ramp all day for millions, and keep shooting alternating ramps to rack them up. For a second multiball path, complete the left Zom.B drop targets once or twice to light the lock, then the right ramp starts a two-ball multiball, with the left ramps scoring million-point jackpots. The skill shot rewards plunging into the Crypt just left of the rollover lanes for a cool million.
Class of 1812 is a fun, atmospheric Gottlieb that pairs its campy horror-comedy theme with a genuinely rewarding ramp-and-multiball ruleset and those delightful beating-heart and chattering-teeth toys. For the collector who loves a machine with a sense of humor and satisfying ramp play, it’s a worthy find. Always grab the Door Prize, backhand that left ramp for millions, and light the Zom.B lock. Some machines make spooky fun genuinely rewarding, and this Gottlieb schoolhouse romp is one of them. Class is in session, so drop a coin.