Sky Show
About This Machine
Sky Show is an electro-mechanical (EM) add-a-ball pinball machine with a sky-diving theme. While its listed manufacturer is unknown, the backglass carries a small inscription reading "mfd by sky show Italy", and the game is understood to be a rebadged Italian-market version of Gottlieb's 1974 title 'Sky Dive' — part of a pattern of Gottlieb machines produced or distributed in Italy under altered names.
As an add-a-ball machine following Sky Dive's design, Sky Show's gameplay would have closely mirrored its Gottlieb source, rewarding skilled play with additional balls rather than a numeric replay score, in keeping with common European add-a-ball conventions of the period. Beyond its rebadging, specific details about further modifications to the playfield or rules are not well documented.
Because available images of the backglass and playfield are too small to clearly identify all of the Italian-source branding, some details about Sky Show's exact origin and distributor remain uncertain. Still, as an example of a Gottlieb title repackaged for the Italian market, it offers an interesting window into how American pinball designs circulated internationally during the mid-1970s.
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Technical Details
- Theme:
- Sports - Sky Diving