Bera-Ball

The Bera-Ball, manufactured by Bera Automatenfabrik of Berlin, Germany in August 1933, is a pure mechanical (PM) table-top/counter pinball game. It is a copy of Tura Automatenfabrik GmbH's 1933 'Tura-Ball,' illustrating how quickly successful pinball designs were replicated by competing German manufacturers in the early 1930s.

As a Pure Mechanical design, the Bera-Ball features ten trap holes and four free-play holes, along with two outhole troughs. A period flyer indicates that the playfield could be replaced. These mechanical features demonstrate the resourcefulness of pinball designers working without electrical components.

Due to limited documentation, the machine's specific design, art, and theme cannot be confirmed with certainty. Even so, its status as an early copy of the influential Tura-Ball makes the Bera-Ball a useful reference point for tracing how pinball designs spread across Germany in the early 1930s.