Checkers

Checkers, manufactured by Genco Manufacturing Company in June 1935, is a single-player electro-mechanical machine from a company that had already been producing coin-operated games since 1931, making Checkers a product of Genco's early but established years rather than one of its very first releases.

As with other EM machines from 1935, Checkers predates the invention of the flipper by more than a decade, so gameplay would have relied on a plunger-launched ball moving through a fixed field of pins, targets, and scoring pockets rather than player-controlled flippers.

Specific details of Checkers' artwork, theme, and ruleset have not survived in available documentation. Its age and rarity make it of interest primarily to collectors and historians researching Genco's early production history.