He-No

He-No is a rare and enigmatic pinball machine from January 1932, attributed to Moseley Vending Machine Exchange of Richmond, Virginia. The attribution itself is uncertain: it comes from the Encyclopedia of Pinball, yet researchers have not found any advertisements showing Moseley acting as anything other than a distributor, so the game's true manufacturer may never be known.

He-No is a single-player, pure mechanical (PM) game, meaning it predates the electrical components that would come to define pinball, along with the bumpers introduced in 1936 and the flippers that arrived in 1947. Its rules and objectives are unknown, but its very existence provides a glimpse into the game's countertop-marble-game origins during the earliest years of the pinball boom.

Little is known about the machine's design, art, or theme beyond its attributed maker and production year. That mystery is part of its appeal: for collectors and historians, He-No is a puzzle from pinball's formative era that may yet yield new information through further research.