Amazon Hunt

Partial

Gottlieb1983gottlieb.amazon-hunt.1983 1 of 2 editions

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/amazon-hunt-1983.mdgottlieb/amazon-hunt-1983.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
amazonhamazonha

2 ROM sets resolve to this machine. Clones share the definition unless a hardware difference is listed.

Controller platform
Not determined
Displays

No display inventory recorded yet.

Address space
Switches
2–72 (14)
Solenoids
1–8 (3)
Lamps
14–49 (36)

Coverage

Partial

Real evidence exists, but authoring requirements are still missing or in conflict. Verify before shipping a table.

Completion13%

Progress is derived from the fixed author-readiness requirements. It helps rank unfinished work, but only a 100% author-ready definition passes the publication gate.

Catalog Identity
validated
Address Enumeration
unknown
Semantic Naming
unknown
Physical Wiring
unknown
Mechanisms
unknown
Variant Coverage
candidate
Recreation Knowledge
unknown
Still missing · 14
Driver MappingController PlatformInput EnumerationInput SemanticsOutput EnumerationOutput SemanticsDisplay InventoryMechanism InventoryMechanism BehaviorPolarityVariant DifferencesRecreation NotesProvenanceSpatial Placement

Switches

The addresses PinMAME reports as closed. Numbers are the public API values, not matrix hardware pins.

14 addresses

Switch map

Sequential addresses, grouped in columns of eight.

used unused
 
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7
1–8
9–16
17–24
25–32
33–40
41–48
49–56
57–64
65–72
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
14 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
2
Sw2a
switch.sw2a candidate
12
Sw12a
switch.sw12a candidate
22
Sw22a
switch.sw22a candidate
32
Sw32
switch.sw32 candidate
42
Sw42
switch.sw42 candidate
50
Sw50a
switch.sw50a candidate
51
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
52
Sw52a
switch.sw52a candidate
60
Sw60a
switch.sw60a candidate
61
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
62
Sw62a
switch.sw62a candidate
70
Sw70a
switch.sw70a candidate
71
Bumper3
switch.bumper3 candidate
72
Sw72a
switch.sw72a candidate

Controlled devices

Everything the ROM can energise, grouped the way a table author builds it.

Coils, magnets & motors

3
3 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol Right
coil.sol-right candidate
2
Sol Left
coil.sol-left candidate
8
Solknocker
coil.solknocker candidate

Lamps

36

Lamp map

Sequential addresses, grouped in columns of eight.

used unused
 
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7
1–8
9–16
17–24
25–32
33–40
41–48
49–56
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
36 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
14
L14b
lamp.l14b candidate
15
L15b
lamp.l15b candidate
16
L16b
lamp.l16b candidate
17
L17b
lamp.l17b candidate
18
L18
lamp.l18 candidate
19
L19
lamp.l19 candidate
20
L20
lamp.l20 candidate
21
L21b
lamp.l21b candidate
22
L22b
lamp.l22b candidate
23
L23b
lamp.l23b candidate
24
L24b
lamp.l24b candidate
25
L25b
lamp.l25b candidate
26
L26b
lamp.l26b candidate
27
L27b
lamp.l27b candidate
28
L28b
lamp.l28b candidate
29
L29b
lamp.l29b candidate
30
L30b
lamp.l30b candidate
31
L31b
lamp.l31b candidate
32
L32b
lamp.l32b candidate
33
L33b
lamp.l33b candidate
34
L34b
lamp.l34b candidate
35
L35b
lamp.l35b candidate
36
L36b
lamp.l36b candidate
37
L37b
lamp.l37b candidate
38
L38b
lamp.l38b candidate
39
L39b
lamp.l39b candidate
40
L40b
lamp.l40b candidate
41
L41b
lamp.l41b candidate
42
L42b
lamp.l42b candidate
43
L43b
lamp.l43b candidate
44
L44a
lamp.l44a candidate
45
L45b
lamp.l45b candidate
46
L46b
lamp.l46b candidate
47
L47b
lamp.l47b candidate
48
L48b
lamp.l48b candidate
49
L49b
lamp.l49b candidate

Recreation notes

Working knowledge that has no schema field yet — edition differences, tuning values, pitfalls.

Coverage: partial - machine identity plus candidate-only I/O attachments. Playfield devices, wiring, mechanisms, and behavior are evidenced only as unverified candidates.

This record was promoted from the generated catalog stub stub.pinmame.amazonh by the catalog-wide identity pass of 2026-08-29. The promotion resolves machine identity and carries the catalog's residual driver grouping over unchanged, the platform and device attachments below were added by the 2026-08-29/30 candidate passes and assert nothing beyond candidate provenance. Every requirement in the definition's coverage.missing is genuinely outstanding.

Identity

  • PinMAME catalog: root driver amazonh, description "Amazon Hunt", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1983".
  • OPDB record GrJkp-M1rBN (IPDB 66) names this machine "Amazon Hunt" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1983-01-09); the resolved identity rests on the agreement of the PinMAME catalog and this reviewed mapping.
  • The definition's driver list is exactly the clone tree PinMAME declares under amazonh; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • amazonh (1983, Gottlieb, clone of gts80a).
  • amazonha (1983, Gottlieb, clone of amazonh).

VPX script candidates (candidate)

  • 1 retained community table script(s) declare this machine's driver; their extracted switch/lamp/solenoid/GI candidates are carried as 53 candidate devices. When curator work weighs sources, a retained script outranks emulator-derived candidates for runtime semantics, but every device here is still a candidate until a known-working table is verified against this exact physical machine.

What a curator must establish next

Controller platform from the pinned PinMAME driver source; full input, output, and display enumeration with semantic names; physical wiring and polarity; mechanism inventory and behavior; variant differences across the clone tree; recreation knowledge from a manual, schematic, or known-working table; runtime provenance; and a normalized spatial placement for every physical device. No manual, schematic, or runtime-harness evidence is retained for this machine yet; the candidate sections above are the only retained I/O evidence so far.

ROM sets

Every driver that resolves to this physical machine.

ROM set Description Year Parent Hardware
amazonhaAmazon Hunt (alternate set) 1983amazonh—
amazonhAmazon Hunt 1983gts80a—

Evidence

Every claim above traces to one of these. When they disagree: a known-working VPX script wins on controller addresses and causality, the manual wins on wiring and construction, pinned PinMAME wins on emulator routing and display layout.

  • PinMAME catalog

    BSD-3-Clause

    pinmame.catalog.8371478a7640

    PinmameGetGames

    8371478a7640
    by
    PinMAME contributors
    rev
    8371478a7640

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.b4020352a29158b5

    vpxtable-scripts: Amazon Hunt 8.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Amazon Hunt 8.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    b4020352a291…

Something wrong or missing?

This definition still has 14 unmet requirements, listed under Coverage above. Fixes belong in the definition itself — editing on GitHub forks it for you and opens the pull request.

Cite a source for anything you change — a manual page, a line in a working VPX script, PinMAME source, or a reading from the machine's own service menu. Claims without provenance cannot be validated.

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Other editions

Amazon Hunt shipped in 2 editions with different playfields. Compare what each one actually has before building against this definition.

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