Coney Island

The Coney Island pinball machine, manufactured by the Exhibit Supply Company (ESCO) of Chicago in 1938, is a single-player electro-mechanical machine from the pre-flipper era of pinball.

As with other games from this period, Coney Island predates the 1947 introduction of the flipper, so gameplay relied on plunging, tilting, and timing rather than flipper-controlled shots. Few specifics about its exact mechanisms and layout have survived in the historical record.

Little information is available about Coney Island's design, artwork, or theme beyond its name, which likely nods to the famous Brooklyn, New York amusement destination. Its age and the scarcity of documentation make it a machine of interest primarily to historians and collectors of early ESCO output.