High Seas

High Seas, designed by Ed Krynski with artwork by Gordon Morison, was manufactured by Gottlieb in November 1976. It is the export version of Gottlieb's 1976 Ship Ahoy, made for the Italian market as an Add-A-Ball game; the replay version of the same design is Gottlieb's 1976 Buccaneer. Gottlieb's sales sheets show a confirmed run of just 382 units, all of which were shipped to Italy, making this pirate-themed single-player one of the scarcer variants in the Gottlieb catalog.

The gameplay features include two flippers, three pop bumpers, two slingshots, two standup targets, and a spinning target that adds an element of surprise. The game was advertised with giant scoring reaching up to 1,999,000 points, and it reportedly used a knocker to announce extra balls. The cabinet uses Gottlieb's classic wedge-head backbox styling of the era.

Coming near the end of the electro-mechanical era, just as solid-state machines were beginning to emerge, High Seas pairs Krynski's playfield design with Morison's swashbuckling adventure artwork, and its tiny, export-only production run gives it a distinctive place in Gottlieb history.