Whirl-A-Round

Whirl-A-Round is a pure-mechanical (PM) pinball machine manufactured by the Irving Bromberg Company of Brooklyn, New York, in May 1932. It is a single-player, square-format machine -- an unusual design choice even for its era -- with a cabinet advertised at 29 by 29 inches, sold complete with a sturdy wooden stand.

Gameplay centers on 28 trap holes scattered across the playfield, into which players direct balls to score. As a pure mechanical game, it relies entirely on mechanical means to register scores, predating the electro-mechanical machines that would soon come to dominate the industry.

No designer or theme is documented for Whirl-A-Round, and few other details about the machine have survived. Its square cabinet remains its most distinctive and memorable trait for collectors and historians studying the earliest years of coin-operated pinball.