Stock Market

Stock Market, designed by Don Hooker and manufactured by Bally in December 1961, is an early electro-mechanical (EM) machine from Bally's catalog. Bally's own documentation does not specify a release date or even what type of game this is, and it should not be confused with Bally's later machines of the same name from 1971 and 1977.

Given the uncertainty in Bally's own records about its game type, little can be said with confidence about its specific gameplay mechanics, theme, or visual design. It was a single-player EM machine, model number 681, with a schematic wiring part number of W-982d.

As an obscure entry in Don Hooker's long career designing games for Bally, Stock Market remains a subject of ongoing research among pinball historians, offering a small but intriguing puzzle in the company's early 1960s output.