Wings

Wings, manufactured by Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corporation in February 1933, is a Pure Mechanical (PM) pinball machine designed by David Rockola and Bill Huenergardt, from the earliest years of the coin-operated pinball industry. Notably, the game reused excess cabinets left over from Rock-Ola's 1932 title 'Juggle Ball.'

One of the most distinctive features of Wings is its ball-handling system. Players load ten balls into the machine for five cents. The ball lift lever on the front of the machine serves the ball to the plunger, and pulling the plunger shoots it onto the playfield. Releasing the front lever causes a circular area in the playfield to spin, and players can control this spin - slowing it down - by how they operate the lever.

While details about Wings' art or theme are scarce, its ball-handling and spinning-playfield mechanics make it a mechanically noteworthy example of early 1930s pinball, and a piece of interest for those studying the format's origins.