[2] The company was founded as a manufacturer of pinball arcade games in Bologna by the three brothers Marino, Franco and Natale Zaccaria.

[2] At their peak, Zaccaria was the third largest manufacturer of pinball machines in the world after Bally and Williams.

Under the Mr. Game label, the company introduced a radical redesign of the traditional pinball cabinet.

The commonly known rectangular cabinet containing the 'playfield' was updated into a more modern look with a different shaped box, and trigger buttons for flipper control.

Additionally, the 'backbox' eliminated the traditional numeric or alpha-numeric score and status displays in favor of a small color TV screen, sometimes containing video game elements.