Little Dandy

The Little Dandy, produced by the Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company in January 1939, is a single-player electro-mechanical pin game from the flipperless era. Its distinguishing trait was its size: the manufacturer advertised it as a "junior sized pin game" that could be used either on a counter or on legs for floor play, giving operators flexibility in where they placed it.

Gameplay centers on the machine's nine spring bumpers, the dominant scoring device of late-1930s pin games. As on its contemporaries, players launched balls into the playfield and scored as the ball bounced among the bumpers, with no flippers to influence the action once the ball was in play.

Few other details of the Little Dandy's design or production have survived, and no designer or artist is recorded. It remains a modest but interesting example of the compact, economical pin games manufacturers offered in the years just before World War II halted game production.