Goin' Nuts

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Goin' Nuts is a widebody pinball machine designed by Adolf Seitz Jr. for Gottlieb. It was planned for release in February 1983 but never went into production; only 10 engineering prototypes were made. The game uses Gottlieb System 80A and music by Craig Beierwaltes.

The machine has no outlanes. The playfield features seven pop bumpers around a single level and five banks of three drop targets. The drop targets are called nuts, and the balls are called squirrels.

Gameplay starts with a 3-ball multiball using an auto-plunger instead of a traditional plunger. There is a timer that counts down during single-ball play and ends the ball when it reaches zero. The goal is to knock down the drop targets in order to score points and build up time. A drawback is that a skilled player can accumulate too much time.

Publicly, only one machine is playable at The Pinball Hall of Fame. Goin' Nuts was shown at the first Pinball Expo in 1985. It was released in 2006 in some versions of The Gottlieb Collection: The Pinball Hall of Fame, and in 2013 for The Pinball Arcade on several platforms.