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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chucktee" data-source="post: 144456" data-attributes="member: 4382"><p>Not exactly. There were certain types of pinball machines during the Great Depression and in the 1940's and I think the early 50's too that were called "payout pinball" games i.e. they paid out money if certain scores were achieved. These along with the bingo style pinballs introduced by Bally in the 1950's as well led to pinball getting a very bad rap until the U.S. federal court decision in the 1956 United States vs Korpan declared flipper pinball machines as games of skill as opposed to the bingo/payout/other types of pinball games which were declared games of chance; in other words in the eyes of the law a bingo-type pinball was looked at as being similar to a slot machine whereas a flipper type pinball was an amusement device. Hope that cleared things up a little bit for everybody.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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