Just-Rite Monarch
Manufacturer: Tennyson Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Year: 1935
Date: March, 1935
Type: Electro-mechanical (EM)
Players: 1
About This Machine
The Just-Rite Monarch, manufactured by Tennyson Manufacturing Company of Chicago in March 1935, is a single-player electro-mechanical payout machine, a coin-operated gambling device that paid out winnings directly, rather than a conventional amusement-only pinball.
Electro-mechanical technology was still relatively new to the coin-op trade in the mid-1930s, and payout machines like the Just-Rite Monarch were part of a wave of games built during this period, often operating in a legal gray area due to their gambling nature.
Little further documentation survives about the Just-Rite Monarch's specific gameplay, design, or artwork, making it an obscure entry from the early years of electro-mechanical coin-op history.