''Goin' Nuts '' is a widebody
pinball machine
Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en route or when it comes to rest. Historically the board was studded with nails call ...
that was designed by Adolf Seitz, Jr. for
Gottlieb
Gottlieb (formerly D. Gottlieb & Co.) was an American arcade game corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is best known for creating a vast line of pinball machines and arcade games (including ''Q*bert'') throughout much of the 20th century.
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in 1983. The game never went into production and only 10 prototypes were built.
Description
The game is unique in that it has no outlanes. Also, the game starts as 3-ball multiball with auto-plunger instead of a plunger; once the player started the game all three balls are released and objective is to knock down the set of drop targets in order to score points and build up time. Rather than counting balls, a player's score is determined based on the amount of time left on the timer which counts down when there's only 1 ball left.
Disadvantages of this pinball machine include damage of the playfield and toys by multiple balls nicking each other. A good player may also build up too much time which leads to lower income for the machine owner.
The only machine publicly available to play is at
The Pinball Hall of Fame.
Digital versions
''Goin' Nuts'' was released in 2006 in some versions of the ''
Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection''.
It released in 2013 for ''
The Pinball Arcade
''The Pinball Arcade'' is a pinball video game developed by FarSight Studios. The game is a simulated collection of 100 real pinball tables licensed by Gottlieb, Alvin G. and Company, and Stern Pinball, a company which also owns the rights of mac ...
'' for several platforms.
References
External links
Internet Pinball Database entry for ''Goin' Nuts''
1983 pinball machines
Gottlieb pinball machines
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