Pinball was Illegal in the US
I found this article from Popular Mechanics in August through a link on Reason Magazine today. I don't see any posts about it, but I could be wrong. Interesting read:
History of the Pinball Machine - 11 Things You Didn't Know About Pinball History - Popular Mechanics
Re: Pinball was Illegal in the US
yup pinball was illigal in alot of states as they classed it as gambling and a game of chance untill a gental man (cant remember his name i should realy) proved it a game of skill by them taking a pintable to a courtroom and him following consecutive shots time and time again proving it was mainly his skill controling the ball not pure chance
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Re: Pinball was Illegal in the US
Was it Roger Sharpe? They mention him in the article in a similar situation.
Re: Pinball was Illegal in the US
roger sharpe played pinball in front of the new york city council and proved to them that pinball was a game of skill.the council saw the light,and made pins legal again.
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I've read that pins from Indiana long ago used to have the free game thing changed to make them legal here..Anything that displayed a number of free games was covered and replaced with a light to say you had a free game..
"pinball machines that award anything other than an immediate and unrecorded right of replay" Are illegal here..
That quote is from current IN law..
This is interesting...1954
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