Super Lite
About This Machine
The Super Lite by Bally Manufacturing Corporation is a flipperless electro-mechanical pinball machine that appears identical to Bally's May 1939 machine 'Chevron,' with only a name change on the backglass - the name "Chevron" still appears at the bottom of the playfield. This suggests Super Lite was a rebadged or renamed release of that earlier title.
As a flipperless single-player EM machine, Super Lite would have relied on the pre-flipper mechanics common to Bally's late-1930s output: gravity, pins, bumpers, and skillful nudging rather than powered flippers to keep the ball in play. Specific scoring rules and layout details beyond its relationship to Chevron are not well documented.
As an early Bally release from the flipperless era of pinball, Super Lite offers a window into the design conventions of the late 1930s, just before flippers would transform the industry less than a decade later.