Treasure Ship

Treasure Ship was manufactured by D. Gottlieb & Company in September 1935. It's a single-player electro-mechanical payout machine, part of the wave of coin-operated payout games that were common in pinball's pre-flipper era.

As with many payout machines of the mid-1930s, Treasure Ship likely rewarded players with cash or tokens based on where the ball came to rest, rather than through the flipper-based skill shots and scoring systems that would define pinball after 1947. Specific details of its playfield layout, rules, and artwork have not survived in the historical record.

While sparse on documented detail, Treasure Ship remains a piece of Gottlieb's mid-1930s history from the company's early payout-machine period, well before flippers and the modern pinball format emerged.