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Shoot Your Way To Tokio!

Manufacturer: Supreme Enterprises, of Brooklyn, New York
Year: 1943
Date: 1943
Type: Electro-mechanical (EM)
Players: 1

About This Machine

Shoot Your Way To Tokio! is not a pinball machine -- it's an electro-mechanical gun game produced by Supreme Enterprises of Brooklyn, New York in 1943, during World War II. It is a conversion of Keeney's 1940 'Air Raider' gun game, which was itself a remake of Keeney's original 1939 'Air Raider.'

Gameplay offered a high shot count of approximately 2,000 shots for just five cents, an affordable and rapid-fire experience for players. As a converted wartime gun game, its electromechanical internals relied on relays and solenoids typical of the era's amusement devices, repurposed with new aviation and combat theming to match the wartime mood.

Its Aviation - Combat - Military - Wartime theme, evoking the Pacific theater implied by the title, made it a topical piece of home-front entertainment. As a conversion built quickly during wartime material shortages, Shoot Your Way To Tokio! offers a window into how manufacturers adapted existing hardware to new, patriotically-themed games rather than tooling entirely new machines from scratch.

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Technical Details

Theme:
Aviation - Combat - Military - Historical - Wartime - Warfare
Notable Features:
Approximately 2,000 shots for 5 cents.

Credits

Shoot Your Way To Tokio! (Supreme Enterprises, 1943) — Flashback Fleet