![]() ![]() The basketball games range from 45 to 60 pounds, and the largest box has a length of 48 inches. One of the challenges of shipping Pop-A-Shot games is the size and weight of the products. “We brought in a couple thousand games and sold out.” “The first holiday season was a proof of concept,” he says. So, Pop-A-Shot’s new owner found a new manufacturer and created games for the home market. So he thought his company could do well on Amazon, too. However, Stucker’s search turned up several competitors who were selling similar games for about a third of the price. The original Pop-A-Shot company only made high-end, higher-priced games and didn’t sell on Amazon. “The biggest change was that, when I was in the process of buying the company, I went on Amazon and typed in Pop-A-Shot,” he recalls. Initially, Stucker made some basic changes: updating the logo and branding, plus building a new website. And to this day, Pop-A-Shot remains the only arcade game company dedicated to basketball games. However, Stucker saw the company’s dwindling market share as an opportunity for growth. The asking price seemed high for its revenue since it had largely been pushed out of the arcade market by suppliers offering multiple games, which allowed arcades to work with fewer vendors. It had a lot of authenticity and history.”īy the time Stucker bought the company in 2016, Pop-A-Shot had been on the market for a year. “Within its category of arcade basketball games, it was the standard. “I was looking online for businesses for sale and up popped Pop-A-Shot,” he says. He had previously run his own business and was ready to become an entrepreneur again. The founder was ready to retire, so he put the brand up for sale. By the mid-2010s, the company was only selling about 300 games a year. In its heyday, in the 1990s, Pop-A-Shot was so popular that some people still refer to all arcade basketball games as “Pop-A-Shot,” even though other manufacturers have since entered the market. “Over time Pop-A-Shot introduced electronic scoring, arcade versions, infrared scoring, steel frames… a litany of firsts in the industry.” “He came up with this idea of a basketball backboard hoop that would return the basketball to you,” says Pop-A-Shot’s current owner and CEO, Tony Stucker. The new standard for double basket games.Pop-A-Shot was founded in 1981 by a former college basketball coach. Sound effects (crowd noise and basket “swishes”) and an announcer who calls the game for you. It’s flexible, featuring a new folding return ramp that lets you put up buckets like a true pro, without sacrificing your whole home court.Īnd, most importantly, it’s fun. It’s accurate-using our most advanced infrared scoring system ever. It’s sturdy-1/4” thick steel frame, ⅝” thick backboard, heavy-duty vinyl ramp it weighs just over 100 lbs It’s big-92” tall, 92” long and 48” wide. ![]() This dual-shot basketball game isn’t a toy. To that end, we wondered, what game is there for players craving the heavy-duty stability of the original arcade style Pop-A-Shot, but who also need the flexibility of the foldable Home series Pop-A-Shot?įor these future high scorers, we present the new Pop-A-Shot Pro Dual Shot. Our Pop-A-Shot engineers are obsessed with giving bucket getters everywhere the perfect home court. From the original blue steel games that dominated arcades of the 1980s to today’s feature packed and highly adjustable Home Dual Shot, Pop-A-Shot has always been at the front pack. Since inventing the game in 1981, Pop-A-Shot has made the finest arcade basketball games available. ![]()
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