Lucky Strike

Lucky Strike, manufactured by Bally in June 1938 (model number 240), is an electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine from the late 1930s. Rather than being one of Bally's first machines — the company had already been making pinball and amusement games since 1931 — Lucky Strike represents part of Bally's mature output during the pre-flipper EM era.

As with other games of its time, Lucky Strike predates the invention of the flipper, so gameplay relied on the ball's path through pins, lanes, and scoring holes rather than any player-controlled paddles. Specific rules and features for this title are not well documented.

Little information is available on the machine's designer, and as with many single-player EM games of the era, detailed production figures are not recorded. Nonetheless, this 1938 machine remains a piece of Bally's pinball history from the years just before the flipper transformed the game.