Pin Ball Poker

Pin Ball Poker was designed by D. Gottlieb & Company in November 1951 as machine model #59, but according to IPDB records it was never produced. It survives only as a documented design named for a poker-themed concept.

Because the machine never reached production, no confirmed details exist about how a card or poker theme would have translated into gameplay, nor about its artwork. As with other Gottlieb single-player electro-mechanical designs of the period, it likely would have used a standard configuration of flippers, bumpers, and switches, with the poker theme expressed mainly through its name and intended cabinet art.

Pin Ball Poker is chiefly notable today as an example of a Gottlieb concept that never made it past the design stage, offering insight into the range of themes the company was experimenting with in the early 1950s.