Lunar Shot

The Lunar Shot pinball machine, designed by Norm Clark with art by Art Stenholm, was manufactured by Williams Electronics in 1967. An outer-space themed EM machine, it is a version of Williams' 1967 'Blast Off' produced for the Italian export market.

The game's outer-space setting is reinforced by a mechanical backbox animation of a bagatelle-style scene. The playfield features two flippers, four pop bumpers, one passive bumper, two slingshots, seven standup targets, and a right outlane ball-return gate. A vertical row of rollover buttons enables a skill shot to the top playfield target, and the maximum displayed score is 9,999 points.

A distinctive feature of Lunar Shot is its operator-selectable play mode via an add-a-ball adjustment switch, letting an operator configure the game for regular add-a-ball play (up to 9 balls), 5-ball play, or 7-ball play with no extra balls. Unlike Gottlieb's contemporary Italian exports, Lunar Shot's outhole has no kickup mechanism to shoot extra balls back up through the flippers, making it a somewhat unusual entry among Williams' export titles of the period.