Great Guns

Great Guns, manufactured by O. D. Jennings and Company in June 1935, is a single-player electro-mechanical payout machine from a Chicago manufacturer that operated from 1932 to 1938.

As a payout machine, Great Guns would have dispensed coins or tokens to players based on where the ball landed, a common format for coin-operated amusements of the mid-1930s before payout machines faced greater legal restrictions in later decades. Like other 1935 EM games, it predates the pinball flipper by more than a decade, so play relied on a plunger-launched ball and a fixed playfield of pins and scoring pockets.

Specific details about Great Guns' artwork and theme have not survived in available documentation. Its age and rarity make it an interesting if lightly documented example of O.D. Jennings' mid-1930s payout game lineup.