Carousel

The Carousel, manufactured by J. H. Keeney and Company Incorporated in May 1947, is a flipperless electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine from the final months before flippers transformed the game. Keeney's own first flipper game, 'Cover Girl', would not arrive until December of that year, and operators of the period soon retrofitted flippers onto flipperless games like Carousel, often installing them in unusual places on the playfield.

Gameplay-wise, the Carousel offers 8 passive bumpers and 7 kick-out holes, giving players a variety of ways to score points in classic flipperless fashion. The maximum displayed point score is an impressive 950,000, a testament to the game's generous scoring design.

The Carousel's happiness and circus/carnival/fair theme captures the lighthearted spirit typical of post-war pinball. While there isn't much information available about its designer, this machine is sure to interest pinball enthusiasts drawn to the last generation of purpose-built flipperless games.