Swat King
About This Machine
The V.P. Distributing Company's Swat King, produced in 1944, is a wartime conversion of an earlier machine called 'Play Ball' - though several games used that name prior to 1944, and it is unknown which one was used for this conversion.
Swat King is a flipperless, electro-mechanical (EM) design, characteristic of pre-flipper pinball machines. Gameplay relied on plunger shots and gravity rather than flipper control, with a simple playfield layout typical of the era.
Swat King's design and art are relatively plain, with a focus on functional simplicity rather than elaborate artwork or themes. No specific trivia is known regarding this machine, and its chief historical interest lies in its status as a wartime conversion during a period of material shortages.