Pleasure Island

Pleasure Island, manufactured by Kenyon Mfg. Co. of Chicago in May 1932, is an electro-mechanical payout machine from the earliest years of the coin-op pinball industry. As with much of Kenyon's output from this brief window — the company is documented as active only in 1932 — design and gameplay details for Pleasure Island are sparse.

What is documented is straightforward: the game cost five cents to play. Its payout-machine designation places it among the wave of gambling-oriented pin games that were common in this early era, when the line between amusement and payout gambling devices was often thin.

Very little is known about this machine's design, art, or theme beyond its age and manufacturer. As with many early pinball machines, documentation from the period is scarce, leaving much of Pleasure Island's story to speculation. Even so, it remains a piece of pinball's earliest commercial history, from a manufacturer that appears to have been active for only a single year.