Cue Game

A cue game is a coin-operated table on which the player drives the ball with a hand-held cue, in the manner of pool or billiards, rather than launching it with a plunger. The form runs from carom and golf novelties of the early 1930s such as Karom Golf Table Corporation’s Karom Golf (1931), on which “Real golf balls are used”,^[1] through the electric pool tables the pinball makers built in the mid-1950s, opened by Chicago Coin’s Automatic Pool (1955), “the first electric pool game in the industry”,^[2] to U.S. Billiards, Inc.'s Electro-Pool (1966), “A pool table with a pinball-style backbox”.^[3]