Swing Time

Swing Time, produced by Genco Manufacturing Company in January 1937, is an early single-player electro-mechanical pinball machine with a dancing and happiness theme. Notably, the game has no bumpers of any kind -- an unusually stripped-down playfield layout even by the standards of 1930s pinball, where scoring relies purely on where the ball naturally rolls and drains rather than on bumper-driven deflection.

Very little further documentation survives about Swing Time's specific playfield features, designer, or production numbers. As an early, bumper-free EM title from one of the era's major manufacturers, it offers a glimpse of pinball design before pop bumpers and more elaborate scoring elements became standard.

Given the scarcity of surviving records, further claims about this machine's rarity, design lineage, or place in Genco's broader catalog can't be confirmed.