Globe Trotter

Globe Trotter, manufactured by the L & R Manufacturing Company of Chicago in February 1935, is a single-player electro-mechanical pinball machine from the mid-1930s, a period when the young pinball industry — which had begun a few years earlier with games like Baffle Ball in 1931 — was still rapidly evolving.

Specific details about Globe Trotter's gameplay features, theme, and artwork are not well documented, and no designer or artist credits are currently known. Its operation and design likely followed standard practices for electro-mechanical pinball of its time, more than a decade before the invention of the flipper.

Little else is confirmed about Globe Trotter's history, but as a product of L & R Manufacturing's mid-1930s output, it remains of interest to collectors and historians researching the early, pre-flipper era of American pinball.