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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Hunt" data-source="post: 64252" data-attributes="member: 1600"><p>What's more, the tide was clearly blowing back in with respect to the legality of pinball machines, which were legal nearly everywhere by then EXCEPT New York City and a few other places by the time the ban was lifted there. That hearing was a press event from the start with a fixed outcome.</p><p></p><p>And it's not as if NYC was some "key market" upon which pinball would live or die in this country. Pinball was doing great business during all those years it was illegal in New York, and nothing about getting it to be accepted in that city changed the overall business outlook for pinball even a tick, other than the publicity ginned up when a government suddenly "allows" you to do something they never had any business NOT allowing you.</p><p></p><p>I admit that news story was "good" for everyone involved. Sharpe did his job perfectly, which was to promote pinball on behalf of the industry, and the politicians got to look good in the press for allowing fun to come back to town. But having a hearing (on the public dime) is just fat pig pols who can't help being pigs even when they are reversing a bad law.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert Hunt, post: 64252, member: 1600"] What's more, the tide was clearly blowing back in with respect to the legality of pinball machines, which were legal nearly everywhere by then EXCEPT New York City and a few other places by the time the ban was lifted there. That hearing was a press event from the start with a fixed outcome. And it's not as if NYC was some "key market" upon which pinball would live or die in this country. Pinball was doing great business during all those years it was illegal in New York, and nothing about getting it to be accepted in that city changed the overall business outlook for pinball even a tick, other than the publicity ginned up when a government suddenly "allows" you to do something they never had any business NOT allowing you. I admit that news story was "good" for everyone involved. Sharpe did his job perfectly, which was to promote pinball on behalf of the industry, and the politicians got to look good in the press for allowing fun to come back to town. But having a hearing (on the public dime) is just fat pig pols who can't help being pigs even when they are reversing a bad law. [/QUOTE]
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