Ten-Spot

The Ten-Spot, manufactured by Genco in May 1941, is an early electro-mechanical, single-player pinball machine. Like most pre-war EM games, it is flipperless — there are no player-controlled flippers, so scoring depends on where the ball naturally falls among the machine's fourteen passive bumpers.

Little further documentation survives about the machine's designer, artwork, or specific scoring rules beyond its bumper layout. As a flipperless title from the early EM era, Ten-Spot reflects the design conventions of pinball before the 1947 introduction of the flipper, when gameplay relied on the placement of bumpers rather than active ball control.

Details about its cabinet art and any promotional history are not documented, but as a 1941 Genco release, it belongs to a wave of pre-war bumper-based pinball machines produced during a period when the format was still evolving toward the games recognized today.