Overview
"King Pin" is a 1973 pinball machine by Gottlieb with a bowling theme, featuring 10 drop targets designed as bowling pins. Players score by knocking down the lit target, which changes through rollovers on the playfield. Once you drop them all they reset and you do it again. To get the higher score you drop the lit target. To change the lit target you roll the ball over a rollover switch that is right in the center of the field. It steps the lit target one at a time through the drop targets.
Designed by Ed Krynski and with artwork by Gordon Morison, the machine is a classic electro-mechanical game with four flippers, emphasizing skillful aiming and target strategy. 4,350 units were produced.
An add-a-ball follow-up was released in 1975 titled "Pin-Up".
