Looping Shooter Lanes

Looping shooter lanes are Shooter Lanes laid out so that the plunged ball travels a full circle around the playfield before it drops into play.^[1]

They belong to the 1930s — to Pure Mechanical boards and the early Electromechanical tables that followed them, machines with no Flippers anywhere on the playfield. A game was pins, holes and one shot from the plunger, which made the plunge itself the skill: how hard the player pulled it and let it go was most of what they could do about where the ball went.^[2] The loop made the most of that — a long, visible arc that delivered the ball to the top of the field from an unexpected side.