Jeutel

Jeutel is a French pinball and arcade manufacturer founded in the early 1980s near Rennes, known for producing a small but notable line of coin-operated pinball machines for the French market between roughly 1981 and 1986 and recognized as one of the few domestic French firms to enter the pinball industry during that era. Jeutel released titles including Le King, Olympic Games, Apocalypse Now, Papillon, Valkyrie and Evolution alongside earlier domestic models such as Car Jacks, Baby, Billy and Rally, with designs that drew on Bally- and Gottlieb-style playfield layouts to deliver reliable, cost‑effective machines aimed at cafés and smaller operators seeking steady revenue from coin‑operated amusements. Le King is among the best-documented Jeutel machines with a reported production run of about 500 units, and although Jeutel ceased producing new pinball machines by the mid‑1980s, its brief catalogue and emphasis on affordability left a lasting footnote in European pinball history for collectors and operators of classic French pinball machines.