Band Wagon

Band Wagon is a single-player, flipperless electro-mechanical pinball machine from Genco Manufacturing Company of Chicago, produced in September 1940. Its music and pageantry theme evokes the brass-band spirit its name suggests, fitting for a game released when parades and big bands were fixtures of American life.

Gameplay is built around an unusually generous complement of seventeen passive bumpers spread across the playfield. As with all games of this pre-flipper period, players relied on plunger skill and careful nudging to guide the ball toward scoring opportunities.

Little else is documented about this machine - its designer and artist are unrecorded - which makes it an intriguing subject for collectors and historians interested in Genco's output during pinball's early years.