Viza Manufacturing

Viza Manufacturing, based at 880 Remington Road in Schaumburg, Illinois, was a short-lived American pinball manufacturer active in the late 1970s. Its best-known release, War (1978), was a two-player, head-to-head cocktail table built under contract by Allied Leisure Industries, with playfield art taken from a portion of Frank Frazetta's painting "The Berserker." War went through two production versions — an early electro-mechanical model run on relays and chimes, and a later solid-state model built around an MPU and power-supply board — and both used digit-segment LED displays for scoring, making War one of the first pinball machines, if not the first, to use LED in place of high-voltage glass segment displays; GamePlan followed the next year with the same approach in its debut title, Sharpshooter.

Viza's second and final release, Fabulous 50's (1978), was also a two-player cocktail machine built under contract by Allied Leisure Industries. The game was effectively cancelled after only a small number were assembled, and complete surviving units were unknown to collectors until two examples turned up in a private sale in 2021. Viza still had a presence at the AMOA Expo in Chicago in November 1979, but no further record of the company surfaces after that, leaving War and Fabulous 50's as its only known releases.