Hollywood

Hollywood, released by the Marvel Manufacturing Company of Chicago in November 1945, is a flipperless, single-player electro-mechanical pin game from the immediate postwar period. Notably, it is a conversion: Billboard advertisements from the era clearly identify the game as a converted machine, though none of them indicate which source game was used to make it. A manufacturer's ad with a picture in Billboard dated December 15, 1945 formally "introduced" the game.

Conversions like Hollywood were a common industry practice in the mid-1940s, when wartime restrictions on materials had halted new game production and manufacturers refreshed older machines with new artwork and themes. Marvel Manufacturing, active from 1944 to 1948, specialized in this business, and Hollywood's show business theme gave operators a topical, glamorous package during the postwar entertainment boom.

Little else is documented about the game's playfield layout, artwork, or production numbers, which adds to the mystique surrounding it. Its age, rarity, and status as a documented conversion make Hollywood an intriguing piece of pinball history for collectors and enthusiasts.