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Big Bear City Council considers lifting pinball ban
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<blockquote data-quote="soundwave106" data-source="post: 131498" data-attributes="member: 3746"><p>The bans were drafted when pinball was flipperless. While some were no more innocent than a bagatelle game in a box, some of them were used as gambling devices... some were even *designed* with payout in mind. (Some old promo ads from the IPDB show this, like <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1301&picno=5634&zoom=1" target="_blank">this one</a> and <a href="http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2299&picno=3889&zoom=1" target="_blank">this one</a>.) Basically think of a pachinko machine that is shaped like a pinball and you get the drift. </p><p></p><p>With flippers and no payouts, pinball becomes more of a game of skill from the 1950s onward. It's easier to pass laws in a state of outrage than it is to roll back antiquated laws in a state of rationality though. I'd find it funny if a town had a pinball ban but didn't ban, say, some of those ticket-prize dispensing machines (some of which really are far more "games of chance" than pinball!).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soundwave106, post: 131498, member: 3746"] The bans were drafted when pinball was flipperless. While some were no more innocent than a bagatelle game in a box, some of them were used as gambling devices... some were even *designed* with payout in mind. (Some old promo ads from the IPDB show this, like [URL="http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1301&picno=5634&zoom=1"]this one[/URL] and [URL="http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2299&picno=3889&zoom=1"]this one[/URL].) Basically think of a pachinko machine that is shaped like a pinball and you get the drift. With flippers and no payouts, pinball becomes more of a game of skill from the 1950s onward. It's easier to pass laws in a state of outrage than it is to roll back antiquated laws in a state of rationality though. I'd find it funny if a town had a pinball ban but didn't ban, say, some of those ticket-prize dispensing machines (some of which really are far more "games of chance" than pinball!). [/QUOTE]
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