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