Reviera

Reviera is a rare, homemade electro-mechanical conversion of Chicago Coin's 1938 game 'Snappy,' reworked into a single-player bowling-themed machine by an unknown hobbyist or shop at an unrecorded date. The conversion appears to be an amateur alteration: the playfield was repainted white, the original spring bumpers were swapped out for the plastic passive-bumper bodies with platters that would soon become standard across the industry, and the six leaf springs were replaced with flipper-shaped stationary ball guides.

Because Reviera is a one-off (or at least very rare) conversion rather than a factory-produced game, its manufacturer and precise creation date remain unknown, and no notable features or house rules beyond the physical alterations are documented.

Reviera's real interest lies in what it reveals about the era's transitional pinball technology: the swap from leaf-spring bumpers to platter-style passive bumpers mirrors a broader shift the industry as a whole was undergoing around this time, making this obscure conversion a small but telling artifact of pinball's mechanical evolution.