Sources
IPDB and Flipcommons Catalog contributed to this record.
Sources agree (6 fields)
- technology_generation
- electromechanical IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- month
- 5 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- year
- 1949 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- production_quantity
- 1918 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- player_count
- 4 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
- ipdb_id
- 6387 IPDB, Flipcommons Catalog
Single source (8 fields)
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- IPDB Genco Manufacturing Company used
- ipdb.image_urls
- IPDB ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/6387/image-1.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6387/image-2.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6387/image-3.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6387/image-4.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6387/image-5.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6387/image-6.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6387/image-7.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6387/image-8.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6387/image-9.png","https://www.ipdb.org/images/6387/image-10.png"] used
- ipdb.notes
- IPDB This is not a pinball but is a scoring device to connect to existing coinless, non-electric shuffleboards. Genco documentation included it on a pinball list so we show it here for clarification purposes. This device would turn free shuffleboards into a pay-to-play scheme in exchange for tracking players' scores electrically. It allowed for different types of scoring such as frame scoring, point scoring, horse collar scoring, baseball scoring, and standard shuffleboard scoring. It had three buttons on its side to allow players to enter their scores. It mounted on tubular metal legs to be placed at the shuffleboard's center point, high above the playfield, its two backglasses facing towards the players, one in each direction. The metal coin box would be attached to one of the tubular legs where it could be reached by the players to insert coins. Shuffleboards were very popular in 1949 and many companies were making these add-on scoring devices, referring to them collectively as "scoreboards". Genco's device does not show an assigned name on it and David Gensburg called it the "Genco scoreboard" (Cash Box, Oct-15-1949, page 20). Articles would call it the "Genco shuffleboard scoreboard". The word 'scoreboard' was never capitalized. A surviving Genco pinball machine list has only the two-word name 'Shuffle Board' whereas the name 'Scoreboard' would be more descriptive, so we select a combined name for this game listing to facilitate searching for it. The original model had squared corners, like a box. In Cash Box, Oct-29-1949, page 19, a 'De Luxe' version was announced and its shipping "was already under way". It was advertised as having deluxe design, deluxe construction, deluxe materials, and no change in price. The easiest way to tell it apart from the original model is that its corners were rounded, not squared. The pictures in this listing are the 'De Luxe' model. Production started on this game in May 1949 so Genco's pictureless ad in The Billboard, Apr-23-1949, page 148 which stated that they were currently in production, if true, likely referred to sample games. Genco made 1,918 of these scoreboards which is not surprising given the huge popularity of shuffleboard playing at the time. An article in Cash Box, Oct-15-1949, page 20, states that Genco was stepping up production to meet demand. Production continued until December 30 of that year. Production start date: 05/03/49 Production end date: 12/30/49 used
- ipdb.notable_features
- IPDB 10 cents per player. 2 or 4 players. Cabinet measures approximately 30 1/2 inches by 20 1/2 inches by 13 1/2 inches, not including tubular legs or separate metal coin box. used
- corporate_entity
- Flipcommons Catalog genco-manufacturing-company used
- title
- Flipcommons Catalog scoreboard-shuffleboard used
- name
- Flipcommons Catalog Scoreboard (Shuffleboard) used
- slug
- Flipcommons Catalog scoreboard-shuffleboard used