Home Run

Home Run, manufactured by Scientific Machine Corporation of Brooklyn, New York in September 1936, is an early electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine. Scientific Machine Corporation operated from 1932 to 1950, producing a variety of games during this period.

Little specific documentation survives about Home Run's gameplay, scoring, or rules. As with other EM machines of the mid-1930s, it likely used electromagnets and relays to track play on a relatively small, single-player playfield, well before the flipper — which would not be introduced into pinball until more than a decade later.

Details about Home Run's artwork and baseball-suggestive theme are similarly scarce, consistent with the utilitarian design typical of games from this early, experimental period of pinball history. It remains a representative example of Scientific Machine Corporation's output during the mid-1930s.