Anti-Aircraft

The Anti-Aircraft pinball machine, offered by Glickman Industries in August 1944, is a wartime-era conversion kit built on Bally's 1938 'Bally Reserve.' Operators could order just a new backglass, or a backglass along with new plastic bumpers, to convert their existing 'Bally Reserve' machines into 'Anti-Aircraft' -- a common and cost-effective practice during the material shortages of World War II.

Specific gameplay details for Anti-Aircraft are not well documented in surviving records. As a flipperless conversion kit, and consistent with all pinball of this era, it predates the 1947 invention of the flipper, so play would have relied on bumpers, targets, and skillful nudging of the cabinet.

Given the limited information available, discussion of the machine's specific art or theme beyond its title is speculative. Nevertheless, as an example of Glickman Industries' wartime conversion kits, Anti-Aircraft is of interest to collectors and historians studying how manufacturers adapted to material restrictions during World War II.