Sources

Contributors to this record: Flipcommons Catalog, Flipcommons AI Descriptions (MachineModel).

theme: Surfing
Flipcommons Catalog
description: *Surf* exists under the Bensa name in two builds; this is the single-player [[technology-generation:solid-state]] one, made as circuit boards began to replace relays in Italian pinball, alongside an [[technology-generation:electromechanical]] counterpart catalogued as *[[model:surf]]*. The other Bensa tables that arcade-museum.com records — Big Brave, KnoKOut, Space Time and Wild Boy — are electromechanical builds of the mid-1970s,^[1] and, as with the EM Surf, this [[theme:surfing]] game's attribution to the [[location:italy/mi/milan]] maker rests on the identification made by the collector Thierry Delisle.^[2]

Flipcommons AI Descriptions (MachineModel)
game_format: Pinball^[3]^[4]
Flipcommons Catalog
player_count: 1^[3]^[4]
Flipcommons Catalog
technology_generation: Solid State^[3]^[4]
Flipcommons Catalog
corporate_entity: Bensa s.a.s.^[3]^[4]
Flipcommons Catalog
title: Surf^[3]^[4]
Flipcommons Catalog
name: Surf^[3]^[4]
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status: active
Flipcommons Catalog
slug: surf-bensa-sas
Flipcommons Catalog

Citations

Museum of the Game (Arcade Museum) — https://www.arcade-museum.com/company/bensa
Big Brave | 1974 | Pinball / Electro-Mechanical [...] KnoKOut | 1974 | Pinball / Electro-Mechanical [...] Space Time | 1973 | Pinball / Electro-Mechanical [...] Wild Boy | 1974 | Pinball / Electro-Mechanical
TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/bensa
year unknown – identified as manufactured by Bensa thanks to Thierry Delisle
TILT.IT — https://www.tilt.it/flipper_pinball/ipdb/bensa
Surf (1 player -ss)
Pinside — https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/bensa-italian-pinball
Seems like in Italy in the 70s a few different companies started to copy a few of the name brand pinballs. Nearly an exact copy except all the Italy ones were 1 player not two our four player.