Honey

Honey, manufactured by Exhibit Supply Company (trade name ESCO) of Chicago in 1938, is a single-player electro-mechanical table top/counter game. Counter games like this were compact machines designed to sit on a store or tavern countertop rather than stand on the floor, making them a fixture of smaller locations in the 1930s.

The game offered six balls per play for five cents. Beyond that, little documentation of its features survives, and its designer and artwork are not recorded.

As a modest counter game from a prolific Chicago manufacturer, Honey offers a glimpse into the everyday coin-op amusements of the late 1930s, an era when games were still evolving rapidly and long before the elaborate themed machines of later decades.