Coney Island

The Block Marble Company's Coney Island is a rare electro-mechanical pinball machine manufactured in Philadelphia in 1948. It is a conversion of Gottlieb's 'Lady Robin Hood,' repurposing that game's mechanisms and cabinet under a new name and theme, a common practice among smaller manufacturers of the era.

Detailed information about Coney Island's specific gameplay features, artwork, and design is not well documented. As a single-player EM machine from the late 1940s, it would have used the electro-mechanical scoring and relay systems typical of the period; 1948 falls just after the October 1947 debut of the first flippered pinball machine, Gottlieb's Humpty Dumpty, so it is possible, though unconfirmed, that Coney Island included flippers.

Given its status as a conversion and the scarcity of surviving documentation, Coney Island remains a niche piece of pinball history, of interest primarily to collectors and researchers studying late-1940s conversions and lesser-known regional manufacturers.