Giunone

Giunone (Italian for "Juno") is a rare electro-mechanical pinball machine manufactured in 1978 by Giuliano Lodola of Avenza, Massa-Carrara, Tuscany, Italy. It is a version of Lodola's own 1979 game 'Neptune,' re-themed around the Roman goddess Juno rather than the sea god Neptune, though it carries the same mythology theme and underlying electro-mechanical design.

As with other Lodola-era EM machines, Giunone would have featured steel-and-wood construction typical of European pinball manufacturing in the late 1970s. Specific details about its individual gameplay features are not well documented, but as a mythology-themed sibling to Neptune, it likely shared much of that game's layout and mechanics.

Giunone's rarity and limited documentation make it a noteworthy curiosity for collectors and historians researching Giuliano Lodola's small but distinctive output, and more broadly the practice of Italian manufacturers reworking a single game design into multiple themed releases during this period.