The Amazing Spider-Man

Partial

Gottlieb1980gottlieb.the-amazing-spider-man.1980

OPDB IPDB gottlieb/the-amazing-spider-man-1980.mdgottlieb/the-amazing-spider-man-1980.json

Wire it up

what an authoring tool needs first
Bind this ROM
spiderm7spidermn

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
1–9 (6)
Lamps
10–51 (42)

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
Sol Saucer Outer
switch.sol-saucer-outer candidate
12
Sol Saucer Mid
switch.sol-saucer-mid candidate
22
Sol Saucer Outer
switch.sol-saucer-outer-22 candidate
31
Sw31
switch.sw31 candidate
32
Sw32a
switch.sw32a candidate
41
Sw41
switch.sw41 candidate
42
Left Sling Shot
switch.left-sling-shot candidate
50
Sw50
switch.sw50 candidate
51
Sw51
switch.sw51 candidate
60
Sw60
switch.sw60 candidate
61
Sw61
switch.sw61 candidate
70
Sw70
switch.sw70 candidate
71
Sw71
switch.sw71 candidate
72
Bumper1
switch.bumper1 candidate

Controlled devices

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

Coils, magnets & motors

6
6 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
1
Sol Saucer Mid
coil.sol-saucer-mid candidate
2
Sol Saucer Outer
coil.sol-saucer-outer candidate
5
Lraised
coil.lraised candidate
6
Rraised
coil.rraised candidate
8
Sol Knocker
coil.sol-knocker candidate
9
Sol Trough
coil.sol-trough candidate

Lamps

42

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.
42 shown
# Name Device ID Evidence
10
L10
lamp.l10 candidate
11
L11
lamp.l11 candidate
12
L12
lamp.l12 candidate
13
L13
lamp.l13 candidate
14
L14
lamp.l14 candidate
15
L15
lamp.l15 candidate
16
L16
lamp.l16 candidate
17
L17
lamp.l17 candidate
18
L18
lamp.l18 candidate
19
L19
lamp.l19 candidate
20
L20
lamp.l20 candidate
21
L21
lamp.l21 candidate
22
L22
lamp.l22 candidate
23
L23
lamp.l23 candidate
24
L24
lamp.l24 candidate
25
L25
lamp.l25 candidate
26
L26
lamp.l26 candidate
27
L27
lamp.l27 candidate
28
L28
lamp.l28 candidate
29
L29
lamp.l29 candidate
30
L30
lamp.l30 candidate
31
L31
lamp.l31 candidate
32
L32
lamp.l32 candidate
33
L33
lamp.l33 candidate
34
L34
lamp.l34 candidate
35
L35
lamp.l35 candidate
36
L36
lamp.l36 candidate
37
L37
lamp.l37 candidate
38
L38
lamp.l38 candidate
39
L39
lamp.l39 candidate
40
L40
lamp.l40 candidate
41
L41
lamp.l41 candidate
42
L42
lamp.l42 candidate
43
L43
lamp.l43 candidate
44
L44
lamp.l44 candidate
45
L45
lamp.l45 candidate
46
L46
lamp.l46 candidate
47
L47z
lamp.l47z candidate
48
L48
lamp.l48 candidate
49
L49
lamp.l49 candidate
50
L50
lamp.l50 candidate
51
L51
lamp.l51 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.spidermn 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 spidermn, description "Amazing Spider-Man, The", manufacturer "Gottlieb", catalog year "1980".
  • OPDB record GrXlr-MOEE2 (IPDB 2285) names this machine "The Amazing Spider-Man" (Gottlieb, manufacture date 1980-05-01); 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 spidermn; whether every listed driver really runs on this physical machine is unverified.

Drivers this record holds

  • spiderm7 (2008, Oliver, clone of spidermn).
  • spidermn (1980, Gottlieb, clone of gts80s).

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 62 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
spiderm7Amazing Spider-Man, The (7-digit conversion) 2008spidermn—
spidermnAmazing Spider-Man, The 1980gts80s—

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.2914315d42353e8f

    vpxtable-scripts: Amazing Spider-Man (Gottlieb 1980) gtxjoe-xenonph MOD v1.0.vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Amazing Spider-Man (Gottlieb 1980) gtxjoe-xenonph MOD v1.0.vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    2914315d4235…

  • VPX script

    vpx-script.9a20ebe5943da33a

    vpxtable-scripts: Amazing Spider-man (Gottlieb 1980).vbs

    0c036bb61b4b
    by
    Authors credited in Amazing Spider-man (Gottlieb 1980).vbs and repository contributors
    rev
    0c036bb61b4b
    sha256
    9a20ebe5943d…

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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