Dixie

Dixie, manufactured by the Chicago Coin Machine Manufacturing Company beginning August 19, 1940, is a single-player flipperless game from pinball's pre-flipper era. With a confirmed production run of 2,297 units, it was a solid seller for Chicago Coin, a company that produced coin-operated games from 1932 through 1977.

Play on Dixie centers on its 16 bumpers - the dominant scoring device of the period, popularized after the bumper's introduction in late 1936. As a flipperless game, Dixie rewarded plunger skill and careful nudging rather than ball control, with players aiming to send the ball through the bumper field for the highest possible score.

Little else is documented about Dixie's artwork or rules; IPDB is still seeking a schematic diagram for the game. Even so, it remains a representative example of the bumper-laden flipperless games that filled arcades and taverns in the years just before World War II halted pinball production, and it offers collectors a glimpse of Chicago Coin's output during that formative period.