Pedal Pushers

Pedal Pushers is a 1-player electro-mechanical novelty-play machine manufactured by O. D. Jennings and Company in November 1938, built around a bicycle racing theme. It was advertised as a "5 Ball Novelty Game" with a variable-odds feature offering local merchant payouts from 10 cents up to $1.50, plus a feature award up to $5.00 -- suggesting payouts came from the operator rather than the machine itself. A version with a free-game feature was also advertised.

Gameplay centers on five balls per game, with scoring elements typical of late-1930s novelty machines. IPDB notes that it has not been confirmed whether a device in the lower playfield is a passive scoring feature or actively propels the ball, an open question for historians of the game.

With limited surviving documentation on its design and artwork, Pedal Pushers remains a modestly documented but interesting example of a sports-themed novelty pinball machine from the late 1930s.