Totem

The Pierce Tool and Manufacturing Company's Totem, manufactured in June 1935, is a single-player electro-mechanical payout machine built around a Native American theme. It operates on two batteries and pays out winnings in tickets rather than cash; a coin-payout version of the same game was released as Pierce Tool's 'Bullet.'

Gameplay follows a common format of the era: players get five balls for five cents. Like other pinball machines of the mid-1930s, Totem predates the flipper by more than a decade, so play would have centered on tilting, plunging, and passive scoring elements.

The designer is not documented, and specific details of the machine's artwork are not recorded. Pierce Tool operated only briefly, from 1932 to 1935, making surviving examples of its games relatively scarce collector's items today.