Kontest Poker

Kontest Poker is an electro-mechanical rolldown game manufactured by the Gillispie Games Company of Long Beach, California in 1946. Priced at five balls for five cents — according to a period listing in Coin Machine Digest, the game retailed for $174.50 — it followed the rolldown format common to the company's output, guiding balls toward scoring lanes or holes rather than using flippers, which had not yet been invented at the time.

As with many rolldown games of the era, Kontest Poker likely used a poker-hand or card-based scoring theme, as its name suggests, rewarding players for landing balls in particular combinations of holes, though the specific scoring rules are not documented.

Little further information survives about Kontest Poker's design or reception, but its pricing and Gillispie Games origin place it firmly within the mid-1940s wave of coin-operated novelty and rolldown games.