Hurdle Hop

Hurdle Hop, manufactured by International Mutoscope Reel Company, Incorporated of New York in January 1935, is a single-player, electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine from the mid-1930s.

As with virtually all pinball games of its era, Hurdle Hop predates flippers by more than a decade -- flippers were not introduced to the game until 1947 -- so its EM mechanisms would have relied on electromagnets, relays, and the plunger rather than flipper-controlled shots. Specific details of its playfield layout and scoring objectives have not survived in the historical record.

Little documentation exists about Hurdle Hop's designer, theme execution, or original marketing. Its status as a 1935 EM title from International Mutoscope, a company primarily known for amusement devices in this period, makes it a piece of interest for historians of early coin-operated pinball, even though many specifics about the game remain unknown.