Stock Market

The Western Equipment & Supply Company's Stock Market (January 1936) is an early electro-mechanical payout/one-ball pinball machine from Chicago. Priced at $115 when new ($123 for the ticket model, with a $5 surcharge for a check separator), it allowed multiple coin play, letting players wager varying amounts per game.

As a one-ball payout machine, Stock Market's gameplay would have centered on aiming a single ball toward scoring targets or holes, with cash or tickets paid out based on where it landed -- this was well before the flipper existed, so shots depended on the machine's layout and any tilt mechanics rather than player-controlled paddles.

Little further documentation survives about Stock Market's specific rules, scoring layout, or artwork. It is possible that the game's name and any accompanying art referenced the excitement of financial speculation in 1930s America, though no photographs or illustrations are known to confirm this.