Discovery

The Bally Manufacturing Corporation's 1935 machine Discovery is an early electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine from the company's formative years. Like other pinball games of this era, it predates the flipper, which was not introduced until 1947, so gameplay would have relied on tilt, gravity, and target placement to keep the ball in play and register scoring activity.

Specific details of Discovery's theme, artwork, and rule set are not documented, which is typical for many of Bally's earliest machines given how few records survive from the period.

Little is known about Discovery's designer or any features that might set it apart from other Bally machines of its time, but as an early example of Bally's electromechanical output during the Great Depression era, it offers a glimpse into the company's formative years.