The Silver King

The Silver King, produced by the Texas Novelty Company of Beaumont, Texas in January 1932, is an early Pure Mechanical pinball game designed by Charles A. Toce and Glenn D. Fleak. According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball, Texas operator Edmund C. Clem manufactured this game through his Texas Novelty Company before demand grew large enough that he shifted production to his newly formed Standard Amusement Company, which continued making Silver King games later that year.

As a Pure Mechanical game from the very earliest days of commercial pinball, it relied entirely on mechanical elements such as plungers and pins to guide the ball -- flippers would not be introduced to the industry until 1947. Little specific detail survives about its playfield layout or artwork.

Despite the scarcity of documentation, The Silver King is historically notable as one of the earlier products from a lesser-known regional Texas manufacturer, illustrating how pinball's popularity spread quickly beyond the Chicago-area companies most associated with the game's early history.