Whiz Bang

Whiz Bang, manufactured by the Lincoln Manufacturing Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1932, is an early table-top/counter-model pinball game — a compact, counter-mounted machine rather than a full-size floor cabinet, a format many manufacturers used in pinball's earliest years.

As with many machines from 1932, gameplay would have relied on simple mechanical elements — pins, lanes, and gravity-fed ball movement — rather than flippers, which were not invented until 1947 and so could not have been part of Whiz Bang's original design. Specific details of its scoring, layout, and artwork are not well documented.

Whiz Bang is a scarce artifact from the very earliest days of commercial pinball in the United States, offering collectors and historians a look at the counter-game format that predates the larger free-standing cabinets that would come to dominate the industry.