Cheerio

Cheerio is a 1936 pin table manufactured by Major Automatics Co. of the United Kingdom. It is a relatively obscure early British coin-operated pin table, built with a medium-sized backbox typical of pin tables of the period.

Detailed information about Cheerio's specific gameplay layout, scoring, and artwork has not survived, which is common for many small-run UK pin tables of the 1930s. Like other games of its era, it likely combined simple mechanical shot-making with modest scoring features.

While little else is documented about its designer or production run, Cheerio's survival offers a small window into the British coin-op amusement scene of the mid-1930s, a period when pin tables and early pinball-style games were spreading rapidly through amusement arcades on both sides of the Atlantic.