Cue Jr.

Cue Jr. is an electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine manufactured by Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company, dated to January 27, 1936. It was one of three variants of the game — Junior, Standard, and Senior — differing primarily in cabinet size and price point, though the exact differences between the versions are not well documented.

As a 1936 EM machine, Cue Jr. predates the invention of the flipper (which would not appear until 1947), so gameplay instead relied on tilt, timing, and the era's characteristic electrical relays and switches to register scores. The game's billiards theme, reflected in its name and presumably its artwork, was a common choice for pinball machines of the period.

Specific details about Cue Jr.'s cabinet dimensions and playfield layout are not documented in surviving manufacturer records or advertisements, and no photographs distinguishing it from the Standard version have been found. Despite this scarcity of information, Cue Jr. remains a notable early example of Chicago Coin's electro-mechanical output from the mid-1930s.