New Yorker

The New Yorker, manufactured by Bally in October 1935, is an early electro-mechanical (EM) payout machine with an American Places city-skyline theme. Gameplay used 10 balls per game, more than the one or two balls typical of many contemporaneous payout machines.

As an EM payout machine from 1935, the New Yorker predates the invention of the flipper by more than a decade, so its objective relied on guiding the ball toward scoring targets through tilt and gravity rather than flipper control. Its city-skyline theme evokes skyscraper imagery typical of American Places-themed games of the period, though further artwork details are not documented.

One surviving example was reassembled by an owner who received the machine with its playfield stripped down; missing parts including the hole shutters, inner ball-guide rails, a ball gate, the tilt pointer, and the coin slide were fabricated as reproductions, though the original payout mechanism remains missing. Beyond these restoration notes, little else is documented about the New Yorker's designer or original sales.