Bang

Bang, manufactured by Genco Manufacturing Company of Chicago in July 1939, is a single-player, flipperless electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine. Notably, the game operates on batteries rather than line power, a practical design that let operators place it in locations without convenient electrical service.

The playfield features twelve spring bumpers and four trap holes. The game is associated with Patent No. 2,134,185 for a "Game Apparatus," filed in January 1936 and granted in October 1938 to inventor Leslie M. Hansen. The patent describes a coin-operated game in which skillful play could earn "a free second operation without inserting a coin into the coin slide" - in other words, a free-game mechanism of the kind that became a core attraction of pinball in this era.

While the game's theme, designer, and artwork are not documented, Bang was advertised in The Billboard in July 1939 and stands as a solid example of Genco's late-1930s flipperless output, from the years just before wartime restrictions reshaped the industry.