Figure 8

The Field Manufacturing Corporation's Figure 8, produced in July 1932 in Peoria, Illinois, is an early entry in pinball history from a manufacturer active only from 1931 to 1933. This Pure Mechanical (PM) game was notably sold both as a complete cabinet game (advertised at 31 inches long and 16 inches wide) and as a replacement playfield that could be installed into a variety of other unspecified cabinets — it was previously catalogued under the working title "Figure 8 Replacement."

As a pure mechanical, single-player game, Figure 8 relies entirely on gravity and simple mechanical elements to guide the ball around the playfield, with no flippers or electromechanical scoring aids of the kind that wouldn't appear in pinball for years to come.

Specific details of its theme, artwork, and scoring rules are not documented. Its dual identity as both a standalone cabinet game and a drop-in replacement playfield makes Figure 8 an interesting case study in how early manufacturers extended the life of existing cabinets during pinball's earliest commercial years.