Casino

Casino, manufactured by Elettrocoin of Firenze (Florence), Italy in 1965, is an early release from a manufacturer that would go on to produce pinball machines through 1970. It's a single-player electro-mechanical add-a-ball game with a gambling theme built around playing cards and poker.

Gameplay features two flippers, three pop bumpers, one passive bumper, and five stand-up targets, housed in the wedge-shaped cabinet head style typical of Elettrocoin's mid-1960s output. As an add-a-ball machine, players earned extra balls for good performance rather than replays, a common format for the period, especially in markets like Italy where the format suited local operating conventions.

No designer is documented for Casino, but as one of Elettrocoin's early titles it offers a glimpse into the Italian pinball manufacturing scene of the mid-1960s, a market that operated somewhat independently of the larger American manufacturers of the same era.