You found one in Florida?
(with a tone of amazement!)

Cool game! Wish I had one!

Hi,
I'll join in. My game is a novelty version, although it has a repro backglass with a faux credit wheel indicator.
Credit to Arcade Artifacts, who did the full restoration several years ago.
Have an original flyer for it, framed and hanging next to it.
As you know, a fun game! Good luck with yours.
Joel

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I'm in agreement. The 1961 Chicago Coin Pro Basketball is nice, but no match for the Genco..
Is that backglass lexan? A few years back, I traded a repro backglass to Bill for the background
scenery and new balls, but not sure about the faux credit wheel indicator..

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Hi,
The "Number 8" is a faux indicator of a credit. (White box under the "TWO Genco Player" logo in the center. There is no credit wheel in my game.
J

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This is a thread of people with taste. Great game. I do have some part info from when I redid my machine. Once I pull it out of storage, I'll post what I find.

An important tip for the early Genco games is to replace the original Selenium rectifier with a solid state bridge. Clay provides this tip and it is also discussed in Pinside/Genco Owner's Club, etc. From http://www.pinrepair.com/baseball/2basket.htm: "Another modification to these games is to replace the original Selenium rectifier with a new silicon bridge rectifier. Genco solenoids operate on about 18 volts DC, and a selenium rectifier was used to convert the AC volts to DC volts. These old selenium rectifiers get weak, not doing a good job of converting AC to DC. This can cause sluggish coils on Genco games. So it's best to convert to a new silicon bridge rectifier as the game operates much better.

I have made this replacement on all my Genco pinball machines and it was properly done on the 2 player basketball when it was restored.

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Anyone have info on the remake of this? Benchmark games 2 player basketball.

Trying to find a manual or schematic to repair.

Contact Mike, maybe he has it - http://pinballmike.com/

LTG : )

I just sent an email to see. Hopefully so. I also emailed the company as they are still in business. Maybe they have some old filing cabinet with something in it. HA

I’m not sure what kind of response you would get from email. Al Kress passed 2 years back. If anyone is answering emails, it would be his son.

I will double check what Mike has. I don’t think he has the manual for benchmark genco but I’ll verify it

No response from the company. Someone shared another games manual that uses the same mother board. Was able to get everything fixed. I suck at the game but it's cool as hell.