Double Feature

Double Feature, produced by D. Gottlieb & Company in January 1937, is a single-player electro-mechanical payout machine from the pre-war era. Payout games like this one dispensed coins for winning play, placing them closer to gambling equipment than to the amusement-only pinball that would later dominate the industry.

The machine's artwork was created by Roy Parker, the prolific artist whose work would define Gottlieb's look for decades. Interestingly, the game is easy to misidentify: the word "Awards" appears prominently on the backglass, but the actual name, Double Feature, is shown only on the instruction card.

Beyond these details, little is documented about the game's playfield layout or features. As a payout machine from Gottlieb's early years, it offers a glimpse of the company's output a full decade before it would revolutionize the industry with the introduction of the flipper in 1947.