Deuces Wild

The Warren Manufacturing Company's Deuces Wild, released in March 1932, is an early entry from the first wave of American coin-operated pin games. Built in Warren, Ohio by a company that appears to have operated only around 1932, it is a Pure Mechanical (PM) machine - no electricity at all - from the very dawn of the pinball industry, when countless small manufacturers were rushing into the new countertop marble-game market.

As its playing-card name suggests, Deuces Wild dates from an era when pin games were simple affairs: the player propelled balls onto a playfield studded with scoring holes, with no flippers, bumpers, or electric scoring. One documented curiosity is that the surviving example pictured on IPDB has a different playfield layout than the one shown in the game's magazine advertisement, hinting that the design changed during production.

While little else is recorded about Deuces Wild's design or artwork, its age makes it an interesting artifact for enthusiasts seeking to understand the game's development in pinball's very first years.