Atlantic City

Atlantic City, produced by Bally Manufacturing Corporation in May 1938 (model 247), is a single-player electro-mechanical game from pinball's prewar era. Named for the famous New Jersey resort town, it arrived during a period when Bally and its Chicago competitors were rapidly refining coin-operated amusements with electrical scoring and features.

As a 1938 machine, Atlantic City predates the flipper, which would not appear until 1947, so play would have relied on the plunger shot, the layout of pins and scoring holes, and careful nudging rather than active ball control. Detailed documentation of its playfield and rules has not survived in the provided record, so its specific features remain largely unknown.

Bally would reuse the Atlantic City name for a well-known bingo machine in 1952, but this 1938 game stands on its own as a modest artifact of the company's prolific 1930s output, of interest to historians tracing pinball's development before the flipper era.