Carnival
About This Machine
The Carnival pinball machine, manufactured by Genco Manufacturing Company in July 1937, is a single-player electro-mechanical machine with a circus/carnival theme. It's classified as a "flipperless" game, predating the invention of flippers by a decade, and features a reclined backbox as one of its notable design elements.
Gameplay centers on ten passive bumpers scattered across the playfield, which the ball interacts with as it moves under gravity and the machine's tilt, in keeping with the flipperless design conventions of the era.
Little detailed information is available about Carnival's designer or specific artwork, but its circus/carnival theming and reclined backbox make it a distinctive example of Genco's electro-mechanical output from the late 1930s.
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Technical Details
- Theme:
- Circus/Carnival
- Notable Features:
- Passive bumpers (10). Reclined backbox.