Archer

The Genco Manufacturing Company's Archer, released in 1937, is a single-player, electro-mechanical, flipperless pinball machine built around an archery and sports theme, designed by Harvey Heiss.

The playfield features ten spring bumpers and three kick-out holes, giving players a tactile, obstacle-driven layout to work with. As a flipperless machine, predating the 1947 invention of the flipper, Archer relies on skillful plunging and table mechanics rather than flipper-based shot-making, and tilting the machine ends the game immediately.

Details of Archer's artwork and broader design history are not well documented, but its archery theme and flipperless, bumper-driven layout make it a representative example of late-1930s pinball design from Genco, one of the era's prominent manufacturers.