Arabian Night

The Arabian Night is a two-player electro-mechanical pinball machine manufactured by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan and released on March 9, 1976. It comes from the early stretch of Sega Enterprises' pinball manufacturing era (the company produced pinball machines from 1971 to 1979), well before the later Sega Pinball, Inc. operation of the 1990s.

One of the most striking aspects of Arabian Night is its use of molded plastic kickers and pop bumpers. The pop bumper mechanism is particularly unusual: it actually tilts when struck, then rights itself to fling the ball away, a distinctive variation on the standard pop bumper design. This action, along with the kickers, is triggered by an ordinary microswitch located at the base of each unit.

The game's logic is driven almost entirely by relays, with only the ball counter and score reel relying on other components. While specific details about Arabian Night's theme, artwork, or designer are not documented, its unusual tilting pop-bumper mechanism makes it a distinctive and mechanically interesting machine from Sega's early pinball years.