Pick-Em

Pick-Em, manufactured by Bally Manufacturing Corporation and dated June 1939, is a single-player, flipperless electro-mechanical pinball machine from the pre-flipper era of pinball design.

The gameplay of Pick-Em revolves around hitting 12 numbered spring bumpers spread across the playfield. A Self-Spotter dial on the front of the cabinet lets the player 'spot' any one of these bumpers before play, adding an element of strategy to an otherwise skill-and-luck-based flipperless game.

As a flipperless title from the late 1930s, Pick-Em reflects the design conventions of pinball before the 1947 introduction of flippers, when gameplay relied on the natural roll of the ball, plunger strength, and cabinet tilt rather than active ball control. Little information is available about the machine's designer or any artistic/thematic elements, but it remains a collectible example of Bally's late-1930s output.