Topsy Turvy
About This Machine
The Topsy Turvy, manufactured by O.D. Jennings and Company in May 1935, is an example of early electro-mechanical pinball from a company that operated in Chicago from 1932 to 1938. It is a single-player machine typical of the mid-1930s counter and pin games of the era.
Specific details about Topsy Turvy's playfield layout, artwork, and theme are not well documented. Like most surviving machines from this period, it predates the invention of the flipper (which would not appear until 1947), so gameplay would have relied on gravity, pins, and targets rather than player-controlled flippers.
Given its age and the general scarcity of surviving machines from this era, Topsy Turvy is of interest to collectors and historians studying the early development of pinball, even though little specific information about this particular title has survived.