Polo

The Polo pinball machine, manufactured by V. P. Distributing Company of St. Louis, Missouri in 1944, is a wartime conversion of Genco's 1939 'Punch.' Like other machines in this series, an existing flipperless cabinet was relabeled and reworked to keep games in circulation during wartime shortages of new materials.

As a flipperless, electro-mechanical machine, Polo relied on plunger shots and gravity rather than flippers to direct the ball toward scoring targets. Its design and artwork are typical of the period: clean lines, minimal ornamentation, and basic graphics.

Little information survives about Polo's designer or specific gameplay rules. Its main historical interest lies in its status as a wartime conversion, offering a glimpse into how operators and distributors kept machines in service when new production was constrained.