Windy City

Windy City is a 1933 pure mechanical (PM) pinball machine manufactured by Buckley Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois, a company that produced coin-operated machines from 1932 to 1936. As a Pure Mechanical machine, Windy City predates the electromechanical components - relays, solenoids, and electric scoring - that would come to define pinball later in the 1930s, relying instead entirely on mechanical construction.

Gameplay on a Pure Mechanical machine of this era typically involved launching a ball onto an inclined playfield studded with pins and holes of varying point values, with no flippers or player-controlled elements beyond nudging the cabinet and the initial launch. Beyond its classification and manufacturer, few specific details survive about Windy City's playfield layout, scoring, or artwork.

As a product of Buckley Manufacturing's brief four-year run in the coin-op business, Windy City offers a glimpse into the earliest, purely mechanical era of pinball, before the addition of electric components and, later, flippers transformed the game into what players would recognize today.