Over-The-Top

Over-The-Top was produced by Glickman Industries of Philadelphia in February 1942, in the midst of World War II rather than after it — the war would not end until 1945, a year after Glickman itself had stopped production. It was a converted game, based on Genco's 1940 'Power House', and like other Glickman titles it was later sold purely as a conversion kit consisting of a new backglass and plastic bumpers that operators could apply to the source cabinet.

As a flipperless, single-player electro-mechanical machine, Over-The-Top offered the straightforward, largely luck-based gameplay typical of its era, with scoring driven by bumpers and rollovers rather than flipper skill.

Little specific information survives about its design, art, or theme; the manufacturer even advertised the name inconsistently, with and without a hyphen. Its rarity and wartime origins make it an interesting artifact for collectors of early conversion-kit pinball.