Coed

Coed is a single-player electro-mechanical game manufactured by the Exhibit Supply Company (ESCO) of Chicago and dated October 11, 1947. Its cheerful theme centers on dancing, music, and happiness -- an upbeat subject typical of the amusement games of the immediate postwar years.

Notably, Coed is a flipperless game, released in the very window when flippers were first appearing on the market (the first flipper game debuted in late 1947). Players of the era relied on the plunger, nudging, and the playfield's own features rather than flipper control, placing Coed among the last generation of games designed before flippers became universal.

Exhibit Supply was a long-established Chicago coin-op firm, operating from 1932 to 1957, and Coed is a modest but genuine artifact of that company's postwar output and of a pivotal transitional moment in pinball history.