Jolly Joker

Produced by Williams Electronic Games in 1955, Jolly Joker is a notable flipperless pinball machine designed around a classic poker theme. Rather than using flippers to keep balls in play, it is a "rolldown" style skill game where the player's primary goal is to form the best possible 5-card poker hand by landing balls into specific value pockets. Players score points based on the poker hand achieved. If a ball fails to land in a value pocket, it is returned for another roll.