Customer Reviews

Spalding 4160 Single Shot Electronic Basketball Game

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I bought this particular game because it had the best rating at the place I bought it from, and also because it was a fairly reasonable price. I set it up last night, and I will say, I think it's going to work out pretty well. The rim is nice and solid, the mini basketballs seem decent, and the ball return is nice as well. The frame is slightly flimsy, but I think it should hold up. They should have reinforced the legs a bit more securely. Other than that, no major complaints about it.

The instructions were pretty bad. The parts are all numbered and referred to as such (which is good), but there were a few times where a part needed to be turned a specific direction, and no reference was made (and since the only way to identify which direction it needs to go is indirectly by one or two tiny holes, it's impossible to know which way is correct until you try).

Also, I'm not sure why nobody lists the dimensions for the assembled unit; I looked all around online and couldn't find it. I eventually went to Huffy's website for promotional products, and found this unit, but with a pop company's logo on it. The dimensions were:

Assembled dimensions 91" L x 26" W x 87" H.

I think that is right. At any rate, it was the perfect height for my ceiling, with just enough room left to tip it up into place.

So in summary, are you going to be getting an arcade-quality electronic basketball hoop? Of course not; have you looked into the prices of those things though? They start at two-grand and go up from there. For the family, assuming this holds up, this is not bad at all.

The game set up easily between five grown men. They played happily for four hours. The power flicked, the game turned off and never turned back on again. I called customer service, where they were extremely apologetic, then they informed me the electronic score keeper, the part that died, was back orderd for up to five months. Other than that disappointment the game seemed to operate great while the score keeper was working. I do not think they find it nearly as much fun without the score keeper intact.