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<blockquote data-quote="brakel" data-source="post: 131252" data-attributes="member: 416"><p>Not as ironic than while Chicago was churning out the vast majority of pinball machines for the world, they were banned from being played in Chicago from the 1930s until the early 1970s. </p><p></p><p>Pinball had to break its association with gambling completely before they were accepted by city governments across the US. That's the reason why you see the "for amusement only - no gambling" tags on machines. It was also very regulated. It was required by many municipalities to display the cost of a game, number of balls, replay score, etc. Pinball manufacturers settled on some standard label requirements that would be acceptable across most of the states that didn't have an outright ban. There's a reason why those instructions were on pinball machines and not arcade video game machines. The pinball manufacturers were not being "nice" by having those labels!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brakel, post: 131252, member: 416"] Not as ironic than while Chicago was churning out the vast majority of pinball machines for the world, they were banned from being played in Chicago from the 1930s until the early 1970s. Pinball had to break its association with gambling completely before they were accepted by city governments across the US. That's the reason why you see the "for amusement only - no gambling" tags on machines. It was also very regulated. It was required by many municipalities to display the cost of a game, number of balls, replay score, etc. Pinball manufacturers settled on some standard label requirements that would be acceptable across most of the states that didn't have an outright ban. There's a reason why those instructions were on pinball machines and not arcade video game machines. The pinball manufacturers were not being "nice" by having those labels! [/QUOTE]
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