All Sport
Wall-mounted two player machine with fast gameplay. For a penny, ten balls (or fewer, if the operator was greedy) are alternately delivered to the right and left bat by turning the crank. Goals scored can be counted in the recessed windows next to the knobs which control the bats. |
Bryans 1937
Automatic Obstacle Race
Automatic Obstacle Race employs the slightly unusual concept of two players racing to complete a challenge on separate, identical playfields. The winner's coin is returned. No examples known. |
Unknown maker 1920s
Bubbles
Insert two pennies to start an electric pump which shoots balls upwards. Two players compete to catch as many balls as possible by manipulating the two brass nets. The winner gets to keep the returned coin when a timer ends the game. |
Ahrens 1930s
Double Top
This was the last wall machine produced by Bryan's Works and the only one designed by Jim Bryan (son of William Edward). After inserting two pennies, two players compete on the two allwin-like games. |
Bryans 1970
Great Blow-Ball Game
No surviving examples of this re-interpretation of Haydon's 1904 Blowball are known. The original countertop format has been replaced with a metal cased floor-standing two Penny play machine which offers a coin back to the winning competitor. The cast metal heads look identical to Haydon's which leads one to wonder if Ahrens were imaginatively recycling old material. |
Ahrens 1020s
Ice Hockey
These robust, oak-cased games were a common sight in arcades of the '50s and '60s. Play is fast-paced as the two chrome manikins swivel on the spot, trying to fling the puck (ball) at each other's goals. |
Ruffler and Walker 1950s
Ice Hockey
A late model of the well-established and already old-fashioned two-player ice hockey game. The flyer advertises 5 BALLS for 1d ALSO AVAILABLE AS 3d AND 6d PLAY WITH UP TO 9 BALLS. |
Cromptons 1960s
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