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  1. By OPDB
    display_type
    score-reels
    month
    4 1
    name
    Neptune
    opdb.features
    ["Add-a-ball"]
    opdb_id
    GRoWo-MjBxV
    opdb.images
    [{"type":"backglass","urls":{"large":"https://img.opdb.org/d0bd3668-b531-4144-bb58-8cb557b00824-large.jpg","small":"https://img.opdb.org/d0bd3668-b531-4144-bb58-8cb557b00824-small.jpg","medium":"https://img.opdb.org/d0bd3668-b531-4144-bb58-8cb557b00824-medium.jpg"},"sizes":{"large":{"width":451,"height":450},"small":{"width":250,"height":249},"medium":{"width":451,"height":450}},"title":"Backglass","primary":true}]
    player_count
    1
    reward_type
    Add-a-Ball
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    year
    1978
  2. By IPDB
    credit
    John Osborne — Design
    credit
    Gordon Morison — Art
    gameplay_feature
    Standup Targets ×2
    gameplay_feature
    Pop Bumpers ×3
    gameplay_feature
    Flippers ×2
    gameplay_feature
    Slingshots ×2
    gameplay_feature
    Kickback
    gameplay_feature
    Kick-Out Holes ×2
    ipdb.corporate_entity_name
    D. Gottlieb & Company, a Columbia Pictures Industries Company
    ipdb_id
    1662
    ipdb.image_urls
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    ipdb.manufacturer_trade_name
    Gottlieb
    ipdb.model_number
    416A
    ipdb.notable_features
    Flippers (2), Pop bumpers (3), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (2), Kick-out holes (2), Upper left kickback lane. Wedge head.
    ipdb.notes
    The replay version of this game is Gottlieb's 1978 'Hit the Deck'. The Add-a-ball version for export to Italy is Gottlieb's 1978 'Poseidon'. The backglass and playfield both carry a date of 1978. We have seen pictures (not shown here) of a backglass with date 1977 and it has white around the score reel windows instead of black, suggesting the actual score reels were initially going to be white. We have increased our confirmed production run quantity to include 16 Sample games produced in 1977 that were not part of the former quantity per handwritten documentation identified by Wayne Neyens as coming from Bob Malvasio, a draftsman for Gottlieb whose initials RHM can be found on schematics.
    ipdb_rating
    7.7
    month
    1 4
    player_count
    1
    production_quantity
    286
    technology_generation
    electromechanical
    theme
    Mythology
    year
    1978