Valley Derby

The Valley Derby pinball machine is a rare and little-documented piece of pinball history. Its manufacturer and year of release are unknown, leaving many questions about its origins and development. Despite this lack of information, the machine's design makes it an interesting subject for collectors and researchers of early amusement games.

One of its most distinctive aspects is an impressive array of 21 trap holes - a notably high number that suggests gameplay built around directing the ball into many different scoring pockets rather than relying on ramps or bank shots.

The game is a horserace-themed, single-player machine, part of a once-common category of horse-racing amusement games. Beyond its trap-hole layout and horserace theme, little else is documented about Valley Derby's designer, manufacturer, or era, but its distinctive feature set makes it a notable curiosity in the study of early novelty pinball.