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description: Flipcommons AI Descriptions (Manufacturer) California Games was a short-lived Los Angeles pinball maker active from 1934 to 1936, one of several West Coast firms — alongside [[manufacturer:id:131]], [[manufacturer:id:34]], and [[manufacturer:id:72]] — that proved pinball innovation in the 1930s was not exclusively a Chicago story. Its six known titles span the transition from [[technology-generation:id:2]] pin tables to early [[technology-generation:id:1]] designs. The catalog opens with *[[title:id:4127]]* (1934) and *[[title:id:4169]]* (1934), followed by *[[title:id:3620]]* (1935) and *[[title:id:3664]]* (1935). *[[title:id:3620]]* featured sixteen trap holes and four horseshoe lanes; *[[title:id:3249]]* (1936) went further with thirty-two trap holes and a ball-advance unit in the upper playfield. *[[title:id:1872]]* (1936), recorded as an electromechanical game, stands out in a lineup otherwise rooted in the earlier mechanical era and hints at the direction the industry was heading. California Games appeared and disappeared within three years — a common trajectory for small manufacturers during the mid-1930s boom. Its surviving catalog is modest, but it captures a West Coast pinball scene that was livelier and more inventive than its size might suggest. used
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