Flicker

Flicker, released by Bally Manufacturing Corporation in January 1941, is a flipperless electro-mechanical game built around a Movie Making and Hollywood glamour theme - a reflection of the era's fascination with the silver screen.

Gameplay followed the standard formula of the day, offering 5 balls for 5 cents, with thirteen scoring bumpers populating the playfield. A distinctive technical touch is the replay projection unit housed in the backbox, which displayed replay awards to the player. The backglass itself measured 22 1/8 inches high by 19 inches wide.

While the designer of Flicker is not recorded, the game stands as a period piece from the last stretch of pre-war pinball production, capturing both the mechanical conventions and the pop-culture preoccupations of the early 1940s. Note that Bally reused the Flicker name for an unrelated electro-mechanical game in 1975.