Sol do Algarve

Sol do Algarve, from Irmacor of Porto, Portugal, is an electro-mechanical conversion of INDER's 1978 'Hot & Cold,' rebadged with a beach, boating, and swimming theme evoking Portugal's Algarve coast. Irmacor reportedly imported Spanish-made games, modified them, and marketed them as Portuguese-made products to work around strict Portuguese import laws affecting gambling-adjacent devices in the 1970s.

As a four-player machine, Sol do Algarve carries over its EM roots with two flippers, three pop bumpers, a slingshot, three standup targets, a 4-bank drop target, a kick-out hole, a spinning target, a left-side kicker lane, and dual left/right in-lanes, offering players a varied set of shots typical of late-1970s Iberian electromechanical pinball.

Specific details about the designer or release date are not documented. As one of several INDER conversions marketed by Irmacor under new names, Sol do Algarve is a useful example of how Portuguese distributors navigated import restrictions by rebranding Spanish-built machines.