PopKulture's photos with the keyword: payout

Vintage arcade flyer for Electric Eye, a stylish mechanical shooting range by Exhibit Manufacturing Co. Gambling was every where in the 1930's, as manufacturers even adapted target ranges to be payout machines. While the advertised claim of "pistol taget pratice" implies a certain degree of skill, I've seldom encountered one of these old mechanical pistol ranges that shoots the ball consistently! That inconsistency - coupled with the "automatic changing odds" - make this more a pure gambling device than a skill machine.

Vintage pinball flyer for Rapid Fire by Exhibit Manufacturing Co., 1930's. The earlier pinball machines of the 1930's evolved from parlor games and bagatelle tables and offered 5, 7, or even 10 balls for a penny. This first generation of pinball machines was for pure amusement only, but gambling quickly became the name of the game, and one-ball payout machines replaced their earlier counterparts by mid-decade.

Vintage pinball flyer for Bazaar by Exhibit Manufacturing Co., 1937. Note the emergence of what would soon become the familiar backbox of today.

Vintage advertising brochure for Bally Manufacturing's 1936 Snappy. Machines such as this offered one shot per coin and were more for gambling than what we think of today as pinball machines. Both the flyer and the machine itself, I must admit, with its wonderful Art Deco adornments, do indeed look "snappy!"