Touchdown

Touchdown was manufactured by J. H. Keeney and Company of Chicago in September 1959. Despite resembling a pinball cabinet, it is not a pinball machine — it is an "electronic upright," also known as a "flasher type" slot machine. Rather than paying out cash, it increments a credit meter, allowing continued play without additional coins. It was a one-coin, single-player game that operators could configure to accept nickels, dimes, or quarters.

The game carried a football theme, tying it to the growing popularity of sports-themed coin-operated entertainment in the late 1950s. Its cabinet was a relatively compact 56 inches high, 22 inches wide, and 17.5 inches deep. Keeney announced the game in Cash Box magazine on September 19, 1959.

Little further documentation survives about Touchdown's specific artwork or designer, but as one of Keeney's sports-themed uprights from this period, it offers a glimpse into how coin-op manufacturers tied their games to popular culture.