Carnival

Carnival is a single-player Electromechanical pinball game that Elettrocoin of Florence assembled as a re-titled conversion of Gottlieb’s 1966 Subway, its new name giving the American table a Carnival billing for Italian arcades. Elettrocoin was one of several trading names — alongside Elettronolo and Elettrogiochi — that a single Florentine maker used to refit imported American machines, rebuilding conversion kit versions of Bally, Williams and Gottlieb games under fresh Italian titles.^[1] The donor, Subway, was a Gottlieb design whose backbox featured a mechanical animation of sliding subway doors; together with its replay-model twin Cross Town it numbered among the final Gottlieb tables to retain a manual ball-lift.^[2] Under the Carnival name the layout stayed as Gottlieb had drawn it: its colored top lanes lit the matching bumpers beneath them, and the central standup target paid its bonus only if the two lights under it — one red, one yellow — showed the same value.^[3]