Pinball History | How Sophisticated is this 1940 Genco Pinball Machine? | Hunting for Specials

Pinball without flippers? Where's the fun in that? This video answers that exact question. In this pinball history video, we dive into the gameplay of Big League, a 1940 Genco woodrail gambling pinball machine. We put on the glasses of the player of the late 1930s - early 1940s, who was quite a different person than todays pinball players are: he was a gambler.

Big League was made before the Second World War: a so-called Prewar pinball machine. It's one of the first that uses bumpers and rollover switches. It uses a combination of relays and a precursor of the score motor for its sophisticated and quite complicated rules.

0:00 Logos and titles
0:23 Introducing Big League and its players
1:05 What's so special about the Special?
1:37 How to score the Special
2:28 Big League's Gameplay
3:56 Analyzing the game
6:40 Conclusion