Horse Shoes

Horse Shoes, released by D. Gottlieb & Company in November 1937, is an early electro-mechanical (EM) machine from the formative years of the industry. Notably, it was a payout machine, meaning it dispensed awards to players - a common format in the 1930s before such games came under increasing legal scrutiny.

Detailed gameplay documentation for Horse Shoes is scarce. As an electro-mechanical payout game of its era, it would have employed switches, relays, and mechanical assemblies to control scoring and award payouts. The machine's artwork and playfield layout are likewise not well documented in available records.

Horse Shoes serves as a tangible link to the formative years of electro-mechanical pinball. Its existence underscores the experimentation of Gottlieb's engineers and designers during this period, when manufacturers were exploring new technologies and formats that would eventually give rise to the pinball machines we know today.