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Starlight

Manufacturer: Glickman Industries, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1942-1944)
Year: 1942
Date: February, 1942
Type: Electro-mechanical (EM)
Players: 1

About This Machine

Starlight was manufactured by Glickman Industries of Philadelphia, with the earliest known reference dating to February 1942. It was a converted game based on Bally's 1940 'Triumph (Model 1)', and like Glickman's other wartime titles it began as a full backglass-and-bumper conversion before being sold as an installable kit.

As a flipperless, single-player electro-mechanical machine, Starlight's gameplay relied on bumpers and rollovers to generate scoring, reflecting the simple mechanics typical of pinball before the flipper was introduced later in the decade.

Little is known about Starlight's specific design, art, or theme. Its rarity and wartime origins as one of Glickman's conversion games make it a noteworthy curiosity for collectors of early electro-mechanical pinball.

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