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World's Fair Jigsaw

Manufacturer: Rockola Manufacturing Company Year 1933
Year: 1933
Type: EM
Players: 1
Production: 70,000 units

About This Machine

World's Fair Jigsaw is a single-player pin game produced by the Rock-Ola Manufacturing Company in 1933. Rock-Ola, the Chicago company founded by David C. Rockola, was one of the leading amusement manufacturers of the era, and 1933 was a landmark year for coin-operated pin games during the Depression.

Because it dates to 1933, the game predates the invention of the flipper. Players launched a ball with a spring plunger onto an inclined playfield studded with pins and scoring holes, with no powered flippers or electronic scoring. The Pinside listing reports a very large production run of approximately 70,000 units, a figure consistent with the extraordinary commercial appetite for inexpensive pin games in the early 1930s.

The machine is documented in the Pinside database and is not yet catalogued on the Internet Pinball Database, so detailed design and theming records remain limited.

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Technical Details

Notable Features:
Flippers (0), Ramps (0), Multiball (0), None display

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