Indicator

The Indicator, manufactured by Automatic Amusements Company of Los Angeles in February 1935, is a single-player, electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine from the mid-1930s, a formative period for the coin-operated pinball industry.

As an EM game of its era, Indicator would have used electromagnets and relays to control ball movement and scoring, following design conventions typical of pre-war pinball rather than the flipper-based play that would arrive over a decade later. Specific rules, scoring objectives, and playfield layout are not documented in the surviving record.

Little further information is available about the Indicator's designer, artwork, or original marketing. Its manufacture by the short-lived Automatic Amusements Company (active 1932-1935) places it among a wave of early Los Angeles-based coin-operated amusement manufacturers from the period, though further specifics about this particular title remain unconfirmed.