Widget

The Widget is a pure mechanical (PM), single-player pinball machine manufactured by the Widget Manufacturing Company in June 1931. As a PM-era game, it predates the introduction of flippers -- which would not appear in pinball until 1947 -- so gameplay relied entirely on cabinet tilt and mechanical elements to direct balls toward scoring targets, in the tradition of other early machines from this period.

Beyond its manufacturer, year, and classification as a single-player pure mechanical game, no further details about Widget's designer, theme, or specific playfield features have been documented.

Its scarcity of surviving records is typical of many machines from the very earliest years of coin-operated pinball, when record-keeping was inconsistent and many small manufacturers produced games only briefly before disappearing from the market.