Match-A-Color
Manufacturer: Pacific Amusement Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, Illinois, USA (1932-1937) [Trade Name: PAMCO]
Year: 1936
Date: January, 1936
Type: Electro-mechanical (EM)
Players: 1
About This Machine
Match-A-Color, produced by Pacific Amusement Manufacturing Company (PAMCO) in January 1936, is a single-player electro-mechanical pinball machine from the mid-1930s. Specific details about its playfield, artwork, and theme are not well documented.
Like other EM machines of the period, Match-A-Color would have used solenoids and relays for scoring, with gravity, pins, and targets directing ball movement -- player-controlled flippers had not yet been invented and wouldn't appear until the late 1940s.
While its design and theme remain largely undocumented, Match-A-Color represents PAMCO's output during pinball's early electro-mechanical era, a period of considerable experimentation among manufacturers.