Swing

Swing, released by Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company on March 28, 1938, is a single-player, flipperless electro-mechanical machine built around a mix of sports themes -- baseball, bicycling, dancing, golf, swimming, and tennis. It offered five balls for a nickel and used 14 spring bumpers, two diverters, a captive ball lane with a kicker, and -- unusually for the period -- outlanes fitted with rollover switches.

The game is also notable for having been produced in at least three or four distinct playfield variants over its production run, as manufacturer ads in The Billboard trade magazine show: early "fixed-score" versions with 600- and 1,000-point lanes selected by top and bottom diverters, and a later "Mystery Lanes" version where those lanes instead awarded a hidden mystery value. A red "Swing light" dome controlled bonus scoring on the outlanes across versions. Chicago Coin co-founder Sam Wolberg reportedly tied the game's name to the swing music craze that was sweeping the country in 1938. 1,352 units were confirmed produced.

While its blend of six different sports themes was unusual for a single machine of the period, specific claims about it being among the first pinball machines to incorporate multiple sports themes can't be confirmed from available records.