Kontest Bomber

Kontest Bomber is a single-player, electro-mechanical rolldown game manufactured by the Gillispie Games Company of Long Beach, California in 1946. Its aircraft and aviation theme reflects the post-World War II fascination with military aviation, a common subject for coin-operated games of the period.

As a rolldown game, Kontest Bomber relies on the player guiding balls down the playfield toward scoring holes or lanes rather than using flippers, with electro-mechanical relays governing scoring — a design already well established by 1946 rather than a novel innovation.

Little further detail is documented about the specific artwork, designer, or scoring rules of Kontest Bomber, but its wartime-adjacent aviation theme and Long Beach origins place it among the wave of postwar novelty and rolldown games produced by regional manufacturers in the mid-1940s.