There are no flippers. The game has only two solenoids and one contact point. This lends action to the game and requires the player to plan his shots in order to make much higher scores. Contact claims many firsts, the first time a mechanism or feature was ever used in a pinball machine. But that in no way detracts from the achievement or significance of the game.
Contact is the first pinball game with electricity and the first to run off batteries.
Contact is also the first game to have a bell and therefore the first with sound. It is the first that actually moved the ball with added momentum. It was the first game made by the soon to be greatest pinball designer of all time, Harry E. Williams. Mr. Beuschell finishes the list of firsts with the first pinball game to be made in Southern California and the first by a company called Pacific Amusement. Harry William also invented the tilt mechanism.