Correct on all points. Thing is being a bit of arcade nut (working for a arcade them in my teens) Unless you go by the old tickets of chuck e cheese. No arcade would even humor more than a high score board in their place. And even the original pinball games like pachinko had no flippers so it was a one time ball shot to see a score.SimuLord said:There's actually some truth to the mafia thing. Back in the old old days (pre-WW2), pinball was a lot like Japanese pachinko rather than the pinball we know and love today. You pulled the plunger back, the ball hit a bunch of pins (hence the name), then dropped into a slot and you got points. Points could then be redeemed in arcades for prizes like ticket games today.Carlston said:Ahh the blue laws. When America pretended to have seperation of church and state 30 years ago they were lying to themselves.
Why is it outlawed? Mafia racket...any proof? Umm no it ahhh makes kids waste time. Who cares that's what kids do...
Ummm God says it's bad? Oh well then, let's shit it all down...
Idiots. Then again I live in a state if you have a motorcycle and saddle bags... and so happen to be a computer tech ect and have wire cutters....
You can be fined 1000 dollars for cattle rustling. Since that is how the law is worded. If you have wire cutters in a saddle bag, which motorcycle bags on the side are call...guess what.
And modern civ crumbles again to some jackass 50 years ago....
Except for one small problem---points make an excellent gambling mechanism, and the mafia (which ran the slot machines in New York during the 20s and 30s) caught on. When the anti-pinball laws were passed, they were designed to outlaw the glorified slot machines.
Someone needs to tell the city council of Beacon, NY that "pinball" as worded in their laws applies not to the amusement device with flippers but the slot-style machines.
Very few proven cases of gambling with a pinball game past 72 ever popped up.
Still it's a silly law that only hurts business. If someone doesn't like pinball or video games the only right the USA gives them is to not play them by choice and teach their children they don't like them. NOT choke businesses with a silly law, with no basis in trust or even in a respectable time frame as now pinball is even less main stream and fairly retro/ignored.
You can only hope someone get a infusion of IQ points and stops this... and another town notices before CNN makes them look stupid and changes their rules to.