Super Six of '40

Super Six of '40 is a single-player electro-mechanical pinball machine from J.H. Keeney & Sons, dated 1939. Despite the '40 in its title, the game hails from the late-1930s flipperless era; naming a machine for the coming year was a common marketing tactic of the day.

Play relied on the plunger, the natural roll of the ball across a nailed playfield, and lit backglass scoring, as flippers were still years away. Keeney was a well-established Chicago coin-op maker of the period, and Super Six of '40 is a typical example of the pre-war pin games that populated its catalog.