Draw Bell

The Draw Bell, manufactured by Bally Manufacturing Corporation in June 1936, is a single-player electro-mechanical machine from one of pinball's earliest commercial eras -- more than a decade before flippers were introduced to the game. Manufacturers of this period were still experimenting with basic mechanical and electrical mechanisms to create engaging play.

As was typical of pre-flipper EM games, Draw Bell's gameplay would have relied on plunger-controlled shots and gravity-driven ball movement across a pin-and-target layout, rather than any player-controlled flippers. Specific rules and scoring details for the game are not well documented.

Little information survives about Draw Bell's theme, artwork, or designer. Given its age and the scarcity of surviving records, it stands as an artifact of pinball's formative pre-flipper years, offering historians a glimpse into the earliest days of commercial pinball design.