Eye Of The Tiger

Eye of the Tiger, designed by Ed Krynski with artwork by Gordon Morison, was released by Gottlieb in May 1978. It is a two-player electro-mechanical game produced near the very end of the EM era, as the industry was shifting to solid-state electronics. Only 732 units were confirmed produced, and the game is closely related to Gottlieb's 1978 'Sinbad', which served as its four-player counterpart in both EM and solid-state versions.

The gameplay is built around four flippers, two pop bumpers, four star rollovers, standup targets, and a mix of 3-bank and 4-bank drop targets, with the white and yellow targets reset by one coil and the purple targets by a separate coil. A distinctive touch is the spinning target: each side depicts a sword, oriented differently so that when the target spins it creates the visual effect of crossed swords. An end-of-ball bonus rounds out the scoring.

With its fantasy myth-and-legend theme, low production run, and late-EM pedigree, Eye of the Tiger is an appealing example of Gottlieb's final generation of electro-mechanical machines.