Straights

Straights, manufactured by Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company on March 10, 1936, is an electro-mechanical payout machine — meaning it dispensed cash winnings directly to players rather than simply tracking score. Only 49 confirmed units were produced, making it a genuinely scarce survivor from Chicago Coin's mid-1930s lineup.

Specific gameplay details and rules for Straights are not well documented, but as a payout machine of its era, it would have used relays, switches, and electromagnets typical of 1930s electro-mechanical design to determine and dispense winnings based on where the ball landed.

With no surviving information about its theme or artwork, and very few units ever produced, Straights remains a scarce and largely undocumented piece of 1930s payout-pinball history, of particular interest to collectors focused on Chicago Coin's early output.