Nordamatic

Nordamatic was a pinball manufacturer based in Verona, Italy, active during the 1970s boom in bar and arcade pinball across the country. Like other small Italian workshops of the period, the company built its early machines largely from recycled electromechanical hardware sourced from decommissioned games, commonly Gottlieb equipment, reworking the artwork and titles to avoid copyright conflicts. Its earliest release, Big Sakem, debuted in 1974 at the third Enada trade show, followed by Champion in 1975 and Monte Carlo the next year.

Nordamatic kept releasing electromechanical machines through the rest of the decade, ending with Antares in 1979, its only game built with solid-state scoring in place of mechanical reels. The switch came just as the wider industry was moving from electromechanical to digital hardware, but no further Nordamatic releases are documented after Antares.