Harmony

Harmony, designed by Ed Krynski with art by Art Stenholm, was manufactured by Gottlieb in August 1967. This single-player electro-mechanical game carries a cheerful happiness-and-singing theme, and 2,000 units were confirmed produced. Along with Gottlieb's 1967 'Troubadour', Harmony is a version of Gottlieb's 1967 'Melody' made specially for export to Italy, where it was sold as an add-a-ball game.

Key gameplay features include two flippers, four pop bumpers, two slingshots, five standup targets, four relay kick-out holes, and a rollunder, all housed in Gottlieb's classic wedge-head cabinet. Like other Gottlieb add-a-ball games built for Italy, it featured an outhole kick-up mechanism: a drained ball could be diverted into a small kicker lane and returned to play as an extra ball.

What set Harmony and Troubadour apart from Gottlieb's other Italian add-a-ball games was the pair of outlanes between the flippers instead of a wide-open gap, which required the extra ball to be kicked up vertically through one of the outlanes. A special cardholder (Gottlieb part D-11138) with a vertically positioned teardrop-shaped viewing hole was used only on these two games. These quirks of the Italian export market make Harmony an intriguing find for collectors of 1960s Gottlieb games.