Ten-Up

Ten-Up, designed by Ed Krynski for Gottlieb in August 1973, is the Add-A-Ball version of that year's 'King Pin,' produced specifically for export to Italy (the later domestic Add-A-Ball version of the same game was released in 1975 as 'Pin-Up'). Like King Pin, it carries a bowling theme and offers a busy playfield for a single-player EM machine: four flippers, two pop bumpers, four slingshots, two kick-out holes, and ten drop targets.

With 2,262 confirmed units produced, Ten-Up gave Italian operators an add-a-ball alternative to the standard replay format common in the U.S. at the time. The bowling artwork, credited to Gordon Morison, reflects the same pin-and-lane theme used across the King Pin/Ten-Up/Pin-Up family of titles.

Beyond its production figures and family relationship to King Pin and Pin-Up, little else is documented about Ten-Up's specific reception, but its role as an export variant makes it an interesting footnote in Gottlieb's mid-1970s EM lineup.