Pair 'Em
Manufacturer: Western Equipment & Supply Company, of Chicago, Illinois, USA (1934-1938)
Year: 1935
Date: June, 1935
Type: Electro-mechanical (EM)
Players: 1
About This Machine
Pair is an electro-mechanical payout pinball machine produced in June 1935 by the Western Equipment & Supply Company of Chicago. It was a single-player game, part of the wave of coin-operated amusement machines that flourished in the early-to-mid 1930s.
Detailed information on Pair's gameplay, rules, and artwork has not survived, which is common for many payout machines of this era; such games predate flippers (introduced in 1947) and instead relied on gravity, pins, and simple scoring or payout mechanisms.
As a product of a short-lived manufacturer (Western Equipment & Supply Company operated only from 1934 to 1938), Pair is a piece of the largely undocumented early history of coin-operated pinball.