Bulls-Eye Drop Ball (Rebound Model)

The Bulls-Eye Drop Ball (Rebound Model) is a 1959 electro-mechanical amusement game produced by Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company, manufactured starting December 1959. Despite its pinball-adjacent cabinet, this is not a pinball machine — it is a rebound shuffleboard game, included in pinball references only for clarification. It shares its backbox scoring mechanism with Chicago Coin's 1960 rebound game 'World Series,' and for a detailed description of its gameplay, IPDB points to Chicago Coin's related 'Bulls-Eye Drop Ball (Upright Model).'

The cabinet was advertised as six and a half feet long and offered 18 shots for 10 cents. Its theme draws on beaches, boating, sailing, swimming, and water imagery typical of late-1950s seaside leisure culture, aimed at drawing coin-op players into an extended, arcade-style session.

Because it is a shuffleboard-style rebound game rather than a true pinball, dedicated documentation on this specific model is limited, but it remains a notable relative of Chicago Coin's better-known rebound and drop-ball lineup from the same era.