Did early pachinko have automatic payout slots giving actual cash for wins
Anyone who reads a bit into the history of pinball would know that pinball wasbanned across the US for its association with gambling. Not just that but early pinball even lacked flippers and relied on a plunger which often gets manipulated by the table design often to be based heavily on luck just like modern pachinko...... That similar to current pachinko, pinball did multiple things to avoid breaking gambling laws such as winning prizes ofr high scores or getti=ing a coupon to give to another location in exchange for cash or colleciting chips or tokens or other objects that fall out of the machine for cash and so much more and of course just like current pachinko, a mix of all the the above (win chips,give it to store vendor to win prize,sell rpize at another store or get a coupon for store vendor and then you go to another location to redeem it,etc).
So it shouldn't surprise anyone that the mob and Italian mafia and other organized crime were involved in the pinball industry as a whole just like how pachinko still has ties to Yakuza and other professional criminal underworld. That said..........
TIL that early pinball machines had comaprtments that actually directly gave you cash. Be it a special drawer you opened to pull out your winnings or just like modern pachinko's dropping out balls from a slot, coins would roll out and you had to get a s a bin to collect them if you're winning consistently and rapidly as they fall and so much other methods, early pinball cabints was as direct as it was giving you winnings ASAP. So it makes me wonder, were early pachinko cabinets the same, giving you yen for your winnings on the spot witha special drawer comaprtment or slots shooting out coins to collect in a bucket or something you place underneath or some other method?
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