Mascot

The Bally Mascot, produced in May 1940, is a single-player, flipperless electro-mechanical pinball machine from an era before flippers existed in the industry (flippers would not appear until 1947). As such, gameplay relied entirely on skillful plunging and shot placement rather than flipper control.

Mascot features five balls for play at five cents and 15 spring bumpers, a hallmark of pre-flipper EM design that added challenge through a dense field of scoring bumpers. Its straightforward, unadorned design is typical of games from this early period of pinball manufacturing.

Limited information is available on the game's specific designer or theme, but the Bally Mascot remains of interest to collectors and historians as an example of pre-flipper EM pinball from the early 1940s, a period when Bally was rapidly establishing itself as a major manufacturer.