- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- Genco Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 5527
- ipdb.image_urls
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- ipdb.notable_features
- At the bottom of the playfield it reads "To Make SKILL SCORE Line Up Balls in Rotation From LEFT to RIGHT". Game measures approximately 24 inches high, 14 inches wide, and 7 inches deep.
- ipdb.notes
- One owner of this game provided the following information:
Basically, when you push in the coin mechanism it pushes back a bar that releases the balls. A spring loaded lever shoots the ball up where it bounces around various nails and ends up in slots at the bottom that have different values. There are some holes in the playfield at the slot areas where it may have been planned to add some contacts and then behind the painted circles at the top of the glass there may have been some plan to add lights for scoring. There is no wiring, or even evidence that anything was ever wired. The back of the playfield has some small pinholes that look like places to add a screw to hold wiring or something, but it does not appear that any of these small pinholes have ever had a screw in them.
As stated above, the inside of the cabinet has no electrical mechanisms to fill the air space, and the playfield backside shows many large holes at top and bottom where light bulbs would protrude for illumination. An operator instruction card was stapled to the middle of this backside. One game shown here does have that card still attached, but it discusses Genco's 1946 'Whizz', a game that does have a large internal electromechanical mechanism, and has payout. Curiously, there seems to be no similar place inside the Whizz cabinet to attach the instruction card for it.
Production start date: 09/11/46
Production end date: 02/19/47
- month
- 9
- player_count
- 1
- production_quantity
- 141
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical
- year
- 1946