Skyline

The Skyline pinball machine, manufactured by Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company in July 1940, is a flipperless, single-player electro-mechanical (EM) game with a city skyline theme. As a flipperless design, all of its scoring came from how the ball interacted with the playfield's layout rather than from any flipper control.

Notable features of the machine include 15 passive bumpers, which shaped the ball's path and scoring opportunities across the field. The backglass measures 22 by 19 1/2 inches, reflecting the growing importance of visual appeal in pinball design of the era. Specific details about the game's designer are not available, but with 1,400 confirmed units produced, Skyline had a moderate production run for its time.

Skyline's cityscape theme is a distinctive choice among the aviation- and sports-themed games common in this period. With limited additional information available on the machine's design and reception, it remains an interesting artifact for collectors focused on early flipperless Chicago Coin games.