Spellbound

Spellbound is an electro-mechanical pinball machine from May 1946, produced by the Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company. It was the first pinball game Chicago Coin made after the War Production Board lifted its wartime ban on non-essential manufacturing, though it was not the company's first postwar game overall (that was 1945's Goalee).

As a flipperless machine, Spellbound relies on gravity, table tilt, and well-placed targets rather than player-controlled flippers. The game boasts 11 passive bumpers and two kick-out holes, features typical of the design vocabulary of pre-flipper pinball. Chicago Coin would not introduce its first flipper game, Bermuda, until November 1947; operators of games like Spellbound would later retrofit flippers onto many flipperless tables of this era, often placing them in unusual playfield locations.

Spellbound carries a Water Sports - Happiness theme, though specific details of its artwork are not documented. With roughly 4,000 units confirmed produced, it remains a notable example of Chicago Coin's return to pinball manufacturing after World War II.