Genie

Partial

Gottlieb1979gottlieb.genie.1979 1 of 2 editions

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/genie-1979.mdgottlieb/genie-1979.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
genie

1 ROM set 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
10–73 (17)
Solenoids
1–8 (8)

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.

17 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
73–80
Hover or tap an address to identify it.
17 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
W10 A
switch.w10-a candidate
11
W11 A
switch.w11-a candidate
13
W13 A
switch.w13-a candidate
14
W14 A
switch.w14-a candidate
33
W33
switch.w33 candidate
40
Sw40
switch.sw40 candidate
41
Sol LSaucer
switch.sol-lsaucer candidate
43
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate
44
Sw44
switch.sw44 candidate
50
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
51
Sw51
switch.sw51 candidate
53
Bumper2
switch.bumper2 candidate
54
W54 A
switch.w54-a candidate
63
W63 A
switch.w63-a candidate
64
W64 A
switch.w64-a candidate
66
Drain
switch.drain candidate
73
W73 A
switch.w73-a candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

8
8 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol Release
coil.sol-release candidate
2
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
3
Sol Chime1
coil.sol-chime1 candidate
4
Sol Chime2
coil.sol-chime2 candidate
5
Sol Chime3
coil.sol-chime3 candidate
6
Soll Saucer
coil.soll-saucer candidate
7
Sol Right Drop
coil.sol-right-drop candidate
8
Sol Left Drop
coil.sol-left-drop 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.genie 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 genie, description "Genie", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1979".
  • OPDB record GRBKZ-ML8Oe (IPDB 997) names this machine "Genie" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1979-01-01); 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 genie; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • genie (1979, Gottlieb, clone of gts1s).

VPX script candidates (candidate)

  • 2 retained community table script(s) declare this machine's driver; their extracted switch/lamp/solenoid/GI candidates are carried as 25 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
genieGenie 1979gts1s—

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.192a59190f589172

    vpx-standalone-scripts: Genie (Gottlieb 1979)/Genie (Gottlieb 1979).vbs

    15d112648a1b
    by
    Authors credited in Genie (Gottlieb 1979)/Genie (Gottlieb 1979).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    15d112648a1b
    sha256
    192a59190f58…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.1c98f981839139ca

    vpxtable-scripts: Genie (Gottlieb 1979).vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Genie (Gottlieb 1979).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    1c98f9818391…

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

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

All 2 editions of Genie, side by side