Aloha
About This Machine
Aloha is a backglass and playfield concept created for Williams Manufacturing Company around 1947, with artwork by Lester Hilbrich. As far as is known, this design was never produced as an actual game, unless it was released under a different name that has not yet been matched to surviving documentation.
The Hawaii-themed centerpiece artwork, showing a woman with a parrot, was adapted from the painting "Singapore" by artist Henry Clive, which had appeared on the cover of the October 9, 1938 issue of The American Weekly. Hilbrich, who also worked for Advertising Posters, Sullivan-Nolan Advertising, and Lions/Bally, reused similar imagery in his artwork for Bally's 1947 game 'Lai-Lani'.
Because Aloha was never manufactured, no information exists about actual gameplay, mechanics, or player experience. It survives today only as artwork - a glimpse into design proposals Williams considered but ultimately did not bring to production during the American Places/Hawaii theme trend of the late 1940s.
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Technical Details
- Theme:
- American Places - Hawaii
Credits
- Artist:
- Lester Hilbrich