Sport-Ball-Automat

The Sport-Ball-Automat, manufactured by West & Rosenkranz of Leipzig, Germany in August 1933, is a pure mechanical (PM) table-top/counter pinball game. According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol. 2, it is a copy of Tura Automatenfabrik GmbH's 1933 'Tura-Ball,' one of several German machines that replicated that design during the period.

As with other pure mechanical games of the era, gameplay would have involved inserting a coin, releasing the ball, and trying to score in the playfield's holes without flippers or electrical scoring. No specific notable features have been documented for this particular machine beyond its mechanical construction.

Little is known about the Sport-Ball-Automat's specific design or artwork, consistent with the sparse documentation surviving for many early-1930s German pinball manufacturers. As one of the known copies of the influential Tura-Ball, it offers a useful data point for tracing how pinball designs spread among German manufacturers in the early 1930s.