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What is a ‘payout’ pinball machine?

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What is a ‘payout’ pinball machine?

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A ‘payout’ pinball machine is basically a gambling device – if you hit certain targets with the ball while playing the game, the machine will pay out either tokens or coins, depending on how the game is set up. This made all pinball machines illegal in many parts of the USA in the 1930’s and 1940’s, because they were considered ‘glorified slot machines’. Many thousands of these machines were destroyed by police departments all over the country, in an effort to combat ‘organized crime’. This makes surviving payout pinball machines relatively rare and more collectible than other machines of the same era.

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