Sky Raider

Sky Raider, manufactured by United Manufacturing Company in October 1958, is a gun game rather than a conventional flipper pinball machine. It combines aircraft, outer-space, and wartime themes with imagery of women, reflecting the era's fascination with flight and the emerging space race.

Despite having two guns mounted on the cabinet, Sky Raider is a single-player game, offering 100 shots for a dime. Players fire at targets on the backglass or playfield display rather than controlling flippers, a common arrangement for the gun games popular alongside traditional pinball in that period.

Details of Sky Raider's specific artwork are not well documented, but its blend of aviation and space-age themes is typical of amusement games from the late 1950s, making it an interesting curiosity for collectors interested in the gun-game side of the coin-op hobby.