Brite Spot

The Brite Spot, manufactured by Stoner Manufacturing Company of Aurora, Illinois in May 1940, is a flipperless electro-mechanical pinball machine from the final years of the company's 1933-1941 run. It features an impressive 23 scoring bumpers, reflecting the bumper-focused playfield design that dominated pinball in the years just before World War II.

Gameplay on the Brite Spot is straightforward: as a flipperless game, players launch balls and accumulate points as they strike the field of scoring bumpers on the way down. This simplicity is typical of pinball design of the era, which was driven more by chance and shot placement at the plunger than by the intricate rules and player control of later machines.

Little specific information about the machine's artwork or theme is available, leaving it somewhat enigmatic in terms of historical context. Nonetheless, as a late Stoner production, the Brite Spot represents a chapter in the story of one of pinball's pre-war manufacturers.