backbox

The rear upright section of a pinball machine, usually incorporating the score display.

Noun

  1. The rear upright section of a pinball machine, usually incorporating the score display.
    • The game is made exclusively in the new-type Williams cabinet design (a longer, lower styling with pedestal-mounted backbox). - 1960 August 15, Billboard, page 69:
    • Backbox animation was a steady attraction during the 1950s. - 1997, Gary Flower, Bill Kurtz, Pinball: the lure of the silver ball:
    • As if all of that were not enough to make this game special, it also comes with a board game in the backbox. Accomplishing success in the board game is about as important as playing good pinball toward achieving good...

Origin

From back + box.

Forms

backboxes

Synonyms

lightbox