Alarm

The Alarm pinball machine, produced by T.H. Bergmann & Company of Hamburg, Germany in July 1958, is an electro-mechanical single-player game from a manufacturer that produced pinball machines from 1938 to 1968. Its playfield is comparable to Bergmann's own 1957 'Revue' and to Gottlieb's 1955 'Southern Belle.'

The Alarm's gameplay features two flippers, four pop bumpers, and two gobble holes, a fairly standard feature set for late-1950s EM pinball, combining straightforward flipper play with the added risk of losing the ball to a gobble hole. Two different backglass color variants are known to exist, one with the higher-value scores on a white background and another on an orange/butterscotch background.

The machine's design reflects the clean, functional aesthetic common to European pinball of the period. No specific information about its designer, artist, or theme has survived in available records, but its documented connection to Bergmann's Revue and Gottlieb's Southern Belle makes it a useful reference point for tracing playfield design lineage in 1950s pinball.