Double-Shuffle (Senior)
About This Machine
Meet the Double-Shuffle (Senior), a rare mechanical pinball machine manufactured in November 1932 by the Hercules Novelty Company of Chicago, Illinois. It was made as a private-label game for the Ad-Lee Company, which sold its own branded version under the same name; it isn't known whether the two companies' games differ.
The Double-Shuffle's gameplay centers on two levers, each controlling four flippers simultaneously for a total of eight. Players could choose 1-cent or 5-cent play. The game has no plunger; instead, a knob on the front of the cabinet is used to raise the ball to the lowest flipper at the bottom of the playfield, and players work the levers to move the ball up toward the higher-scoring holes at the top.
Little information survives about the machine's design, art, or theme. Advertised at 22 by 45 inches, the Senior model remains a scarce and intriguing piece of early pinball history, notable chiefly for its unusual lever-controlled flipper mechanism from the pure-mechanical (pre-electromechanical) era of the game.
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Technical Details
- Notable Features:
- 1-cent or 5-cent play. Mechanical flippers (8). Each of two levers control four flippers simultaneously. The game has no plunger. Knob on cabinet front turns to raise ball to lowest flipper at bottom of playfield and is manipulated via the levers to raise the ball toward the higher scoring holes at the top. Senior model advertised as 22 inches by 45 inches.