A.G. Football

A.G. Football, manufactured by Alvin G. and Company in October 1992, is the export version of the company's 1991 U.S. release A.G. Soccer-Ball, with a playfield and cabinet depicting European football (soccer) rather than the American game. It was designed by Jerry Armstrong and Michael Gottlieb, with artwork by Tim Elliott and software by Rehman Merchant, and only 500 units were confirmed produced.

The game's signature innovation is its patented "switch-flippers" system, built for genuine head-to-head play: two players stand at opposite ends of the playfield, each controlling only the flippers facing their opponent. A wireform switch on each flipper tracks which player's flipper last touched the ball, feeding a "Designated Scoring" system that awards playfield scoring to whichever player made the last touch. In single-player mode, the same switches instead activate "auto-flip" on the opponent's flippers, automatically batting the ball back toward the lone player.

Beyond its head-to-head mechanic, A.G. Football offers 8 standup targets, 4 spinning targets, two 3-bank drop targets, six ball kickers, two kick-out holes, and multiball, with up-posts between the flippers — but notably no pop bumpers, slingshots, or outlanes, keeping the focus squarely on the competitive flipper battle. Not to be confused with Alvin G.'s single-player, flipperless 1992 redemption game U.S.A. Football (which used the same head-to-head cabinet but a different playfield and an American football theme), A.G. Football remains a distinctive piece of pinball history for its head-to-head design and rarity.