Big Handicap

Big Handicap is a 1948 electro-mechanical, one-ball horse-race pinball machine manufactured by Bally Manufacturing Corporation. Notably, the "Big Handicap" backglass documented here is recorded as a replacement backglass used for Bally's earlier one-ball horse-race machines Lexington or Citation, rather than as an entirely distinct game design.

As a one-ball horse-race game, Big Handicap would have followed the conventions of Bally's other games in this genre from the period: players shoot a single ball, hoping it lands in scoring positions themed around horse racing, in keeping with the format popular in coin-operated machines of the late 1940s.

Little specific information is available about the machine's designer or notable features beyond its connection to Lexington and Citation. Its horse-racing artwork is consistent with the visual style common to Bally's one-ball games of this era, though details of Big Handicap's specific backglass art are not documented here.