Strikes 'N Spares

Strikes 'N Spares is a bowling-themed pinball machine released by D. Gottlieb & Co. in October 1995. Built on the Gottlieb System 3 platform, it supports up to four players and features a dot matrix display, twin flippers, and the ten-pin bowling motif that gives the game its name. Frames, strikes, and spares drive the scoring, tying the pinball action to the familiar rhythm of a bowling scoresheet.

With a production run of only 750 units, Strikes 'N Spares is a comparatively scarce title from Gottlieb's final years of pinball manufacturing. It stands as one of the more distinctive novelty-theme machines from the mid-1990s, blending arcade bowling imagery with solid-state flipper play.