Tip-Top

The Tip-Top, produced by Genco Manufacturing Company in January 1933, is a pure mechanical, single-player pinball machine in a compact tabletop/counter cabinet -- advertised in period ads at either 23 by 12 inches or 25 by 14 inches, depending on the source.

As a pure mechanical (pre-flipper, pre-electric) game, Tip-Top relies entirely on gravity, spring-loaded plungers, and mechanical scoring, with no powered mechanisms at all -- typical of the earliest countertop pinball games sold to bars, drugstores, and other small locations in the early 1930s.

Little further detail is documented about Tip-Top's specific artwork or theme, but as a compact, coin-operated tabletop game from the very early days of commercial pinball, it offers a glimpse into the format's earliest, simplest era before flippers, electricity, or elaborate cabinet art became standard.