Chico
About This Machine
Chico, manufactured by United Amusement Company of San Antonio, Texas in 1935, is a single-player electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine from the mid-1930s. Details about its specific playfield layout, artwork, and theme are not well documented.
As with other EM machines of this period, gameplay would have centered on navigating balls through the playfield to score points, with mechanical targets and pathways controlling outcomes; player-controlled flippers were still more than a decade away from being introduced to pinball.
Given the limited information available, Chico's specific gameplay features and design remain largely undocumented, but it stands as an example of the many regional manufacturers producing EM machines in pinball's early era.