International

The International pinball machine, dating to 1933, is a single-player game from the earliest years of coin-operated pinball, a format that had only emerged a couple of years earlier around 1931. Its manufacturer and designer are unknown, and little documentation of its gameplay, theme, or artwork survives.

As with much of the pinball industry's earliest output, International likely relied on simple mechanical scoring and basic obstacles rather than the more elaborate rule sets that would come later, but specific details cannot be confirmed from available records.

Its age and the scarcity of information about it make International a piece of pinball's earliest history that remains largely unstudied, offering more questions than answers for collectors and historians interested in the game's origins.