Pinball legality

Post by **Gman** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:24 am

I am glad he has a cool old toy to play with. Did you check to see if pinballs are legal in your state? I believe pinball are banned in Tenn.?

Post by **JMSVERO** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:33 am

Are you serious Gman?
I guess I need to make sure if Pachislo, Pachinko and Pinball is legal in N.Carolina when I move.
Jeff

Post by **Gman** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:48 am

Jeff, that would be a very smart move, check the law before you move!
We have some strange laws that vary from state to state, heck the liquor laws vary from township to township here in Michigan, regarding Sunday sales anyway.

Post by **Chris** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:51 am

I remember when I was growing up and going on one of those Family "Pack up the car and go" vacations to the 1982 world fair (in Tennessee) we stopped at a motel for the night and there was a bowling alley next door. I snook away for a minute and they had a pinball machine. It had a sign on it saying you must be 18 or older to play this machine. I don't remember which state it was but it was somewhere along the way from MA to TN.

Post by **JMSVERO** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:58 am

I do know that years ago (50's and 60's) you could not win free games or extra balls on the machines because of gambling laws believe it or not.
Jeff

Post by **Gman** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:08 pm

I was told that the free game was considered gambling by some(illegal) so the manufactures start making different version of the same games where the bonus was not a free game but would add a ball.
So to collectors the same machine was collectible with the free game and the "add a ball" feature. some guys prefer the add a ball if your trying to get a record high score, another ball could get more points but another credit is another game.

Post by **JMSVERO** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:53 pm

You are correct Gman. It does make them a little more collectible.
Jeff

Post by **scooby_doo_m2002** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:00 pm

I remember my grandfather telling me that once he had to take electrical tape and cover up the game counter on the older machines due to at the time they concidered pinball a gambling device in Indiana. He told me that when I see a sign that says "replay at xxxxx points" its how they get around the gambling laws. If the machines would say "free game at xxxx points" then thats the pinballs that they would pick up and destroy.

My grandfather also told me that they technically haven't changed the law (as of 2002 anyways) but Pinball has been such a popular item and "everyone has them" that the IGC doesn't even bother anymore. they have enough bars that they have to keep tabs on with poker machines and cherry master machines that they simply just don't have the time nor the resources to pick up the estimated 750,000+ Pinball Machines that are in the state of Indiana.

Mind you what I have just said was dated back in 2002. My grandfather had since sold his company, retired, and passed away.

Post by **Gman** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:15 pm

Thats the sticky point, winning a 'free game' is not free it costs something to play and you never get that back. = NOT gambling. IMHO but some pin headed lawmakers or gaming commissioner dreamed up that loop hole so they could smash and burn a few games.
now if you actually won THE game that would be gambling.

Post by **Chris** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:27 pm

I think if they want to get rid of all gambling then they have to get rid of the tools of biggest gambling craze of all. They need to burn all of the playing cards. I don't care if you can't play bridge anymore, they are a gambling device and we must purge society of this evil.

Post by **JMSVERO** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:46 pm

While we are at it, lottery, horse racing, dog racing, jai lai.
It's all evil, PURE EVIL!!!
Jeff

Post by **Chris** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:02 pm

crap, we are getting off topic....wait.....bing bing....CLICK (free game replay)...we are officially back on topic.

Post by **JMSVERO** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:07 pm

Chris,
We have been off topic for a while. The topic is actually, What machines do you own. I will take partial blame.
Jeff

Post by **Gman** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:50 pm

This thread like any good conversation wanders from topic to topic.
Now if a moderator was on this they could split this off into its own thread.

Post by **Gman** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:58 am

Gman wrote:This thread like any good conversation wanders from topic to topic.
Now if a moderator was on this they could split this off into its own thread.

Hey look a new thread!
Cards are the work of the gambeling devil and all must be destroyed immediatly. But people will bet on anything if they are inclined. a dice roll, any game can be bet on. football, baseball etc any thing can be bet on. One of the funniest betting games or weirdest is cow bingo, buy a square and where the cow drops a patty is the winning square.

Post by **Chris** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:43 am

Gman wrote:Hey look a new thread!

It took you a week and a half to notice? wow.

Post by **JMSVERO** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:45 am

I thought the same thing Chris. I just figured Gman just thawed out.
Jeff

Post by **Gman** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:48 am

Me notice something? I couldn't tell you if the Mrs is a blond or brunette.

HA HA joke honey really! put the frying pan down!

I am a bit busy we are down a man on the crew, we told management to get another body we are running behind so their wise answer? we now have to fill out more paperwork so they can track our time ?? Great that makes so much sense, we don't have time to do the existing work so they gave us more work to do, brilliant really. I want to retire early..

Chris does a good job here I don't know how he has time to it all.