Colors

Colors, manufactured in 1943 by the Amusement Novelty Supply Company (A.N.S. Co.) of Elmira, New York, is a one-ball payout machine from the electro-mechanical era. By 1943, EM technology had already been in commercial use for over a decade, so Colors represents a wartime-era example of the format rather than an early pioneer of it.

Gameplay was simple: one ball per five-cent play. Notably, the machine had six coin chutes, a feature manufacturers of the era sometimes advertised as allowing for multiple simultaneous players, since each chute could register its own coin entry.

No designer, artist, or theme is documented for Colors, and few further details survive. Manufactured during World War II — a period when wartime production limits sharply curtailed the pinball industry — the machine is a relatively obscure entry from a manufacturer that was active only from 1935 to 1943.