Figure 8

Figure 8 is a 1936 electro-mechanical pinball machine produced by the California Games Company of Los Angeles, one of the shorter-lived manufacturers of the pre-war pinball era (active 1934-1936). Details about the machine's specific gameplay, theme, and design are not well documented, which is typical for many surviving machines from this very early period of the industry.

As an EM machine predating the 1947 introduction of player-controlled flippers, Figure 8 would have relied on the tilt-and-nudge style of play common to pre-flipper pinball, where scoring depended on the paths balls took through pins, targets, and holes rather than any direct player control at the flippers.

With California Games Company only in operation for a brief two-year window, surviving examples and documentation of their output - including Figure 8 - are scarce, making this machine a rare artifact from one of pinball's lesser-known early manufacturers.