- gameplay_feature
- Trap Holes ×16
- gameplay_feature
- Free Play Holes
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Genco Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 1370
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/1370/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/1370/image-2.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- Trap holes (16), Free play hole (1).
- ipdb.notes
- This is the only one-ball payout game ever produced by Genco. The Billboard announcement for this game (shown here) states there are three free play holes but we see only one in our sole picture. We see four holes marked not with a point value but with the word "snagged". Maybe they are related to the "mystery award" which, according to the announcement, pays out from $1 to $5. The announcement also states this game was "praised by operators" but, according to Marketplace Pictorial History, Dec 1981 - Jan 1983 page 113, King Fish was mechanically deficient and Genco received so many complaints from operators that they were forced to take the games back. If the games were then destroyed or reused for future non-payout games, perhaps that is why we find no modern pictures of surviving examples.
- month
- 8
- player_count
- 1
- reward_type
- Free Play
- technology_generation
- electromechanical
- theme
- Fish
- year
- 1935