Unleash Hell 16

Why I liked these games I don’t know? Oh yeah — the AMAZING graphics.

All pinball games had amazing graphics and the handheld ones weren’t exempt from that. This is a cool one I had and loved. This 1965 handheld monster pinball game was made by Steven MFG. in Herman, MO.

Again, anything “monster” was right up my alley and this game fit the bill! There’s not much to it, but it’s still cool and it’s a great piece for monster collectors!

The handheld pinball games were also called a bagatelle. Basically a light, flat board with plastic pins in it and short raised sides to keep the ball on the playfield during play.  Each ball is launched from some sort of shooter or pusher to the top of the playfield, where it then rolls towards the player, bouncing off the pins or landing in any of several scoring pockets. The pockets are marked with various score values, with the higher values usually protected by more pins or tougher paths to reach them.

The earliest relative of the modern pinball machines, bagatelles consist of a basic construction of a frame around a playfield. They have no flippers, bumpers, ramps or other mechanical items normally found on a pinball machine, nor do they contain lights, sounds, or power sources. They have no playfield glass and, are not usually coin-operated.