Three Star Special
Manufacturer: Pacific Amusement Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, Illinois, USA (1932-1937) [Trade Name: PAMCO]
Year: 1937
Date: March, 1937
Type: Electro-mechanical (EM)
Players: 1
About This Machine
The Three Star Special, manufactured by Pacific Amusement Manufacturing Company (PAMCO) of Chicago in March 1937, is an early electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine from one of the pioneering companies of the pre-flipper pinball era.
As with other games from this period, gameplay would have relied on bumpers, targets, and skillful shooting of the ball rather than flippers, which were not introduced to pinball until 1947, a decade after this machine's release.
Little detailed documentation survives about the Three Star Special's specific features, art, or designer, but as a product of one of the industry's early manufacturers, it remains a notable artifact of pinball's formative years.