Tru-Form

The Tru-Form, manufactured by V.P. Distributing Company of St. Louis, Missouri in 1944, is a wartime conversion of Bally's 1939 'Champion.' As with related machines from this manufacturer's 1944 line, an existing flipperless cabinet was reworked and relabeled during a period of wartime material shortages.

Gameplay on the Tru-Form reflects its flipperless, electro-mechanical design: players used plunger shots and gravity, rather than flippers, to route the ball toward scoring targets. The rules were simple, with no specific theme or storyline driving gameplay, and the machine's relays, solenoids, and cam-controlled mechanisms show the mechanical conventions of the era.

Little information is available about the Tru-Form's designer or specific rule set. Its plain appearance suggests a utilitarian approach common during wartime production, and it remains a useful artifact for tracing how manufacturers kept older cabinets in service when new materials were scarce.