Bingo (Improved)

The Bingo (Improved) pinball machine, manufactured by the Bingo Novelty Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois in October 1931, is an early example of pinball's formative years. As a table top/counter game, it reflects the compact, coin-operated format common among early pinball machines.

The Bingo (Improved) is a Pure Mechanical (PM) design, meaning it relies entirely on mechanical components rather than any electrical elements — flippers and electromechanical scoring would not appear in pinball for years to come. Specific details about its playfield layout and objectives are not documented, but as with other machines of its era, gameplay would have centered on manually launching balls and scoring based on where they landed.

Little information is available about Bingo (Improved)'s designer or specific notable features. As one of the early surviving examples from this period, it serves as a link to pinball's pioneering era, before the format's transformation into the sophisticated entertainment experience it would later become.