Rex

Rex, manufactured by Daval Manufacturing Co. in January 1935, is an early electro-mechanical one-ball payout machine, a genre common in the mid-1930s where players wagered on the outcome of a single ball rather than playing a multi-ball skill game.

As a payout game, Rex's mechanics were geared toward randomized or skill-influenced outcomes tied to payouts rather than the flipper-based skill shots that would define pinball after 1947 -- flippers had not yet been invented when Rex was released.

Little documentation survives about Rex's specific design, art, or theme, as is common for machines of this era and category. Its age and status as an early Daval one-ball game make it a piece of interest for collectors focused on pinball's pre-flipper, payout-machine history.