Barracuda

Barracuda is an electro-mechanical 'upright' — a coin-operated payout device, sometimes called a 'flasher type' slot machine — rather than a pinball machine. Its manufacturer is unknown, and no confirmed production date survives; a British flyer advertises 1968, though the game may have been made in late 1967.

Upright payout machines were illegal for coin payout in the United States, so American manufacturers that made them typically exported the games to the UK; it is not known for certain whether Barracuda itself was built in the USA. Its theme centers on sport fishing, a common subject for amusement devices of the era.

Beyond the surviving flyer, little is documented about Barracuda's design, mechanics, or origin, and its manufacturer remains unidentified. It stands as an example of the era's exported gambling uprights rather than a piece of pinball history proper.