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Pinball style Bingo Machines - Anyone still buy these??

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Jeff AMN:
Nah, standard pinball will stick around much longer. There are a lot of younger pinball fanatics. I'm 30, and I'm already seeing guys younger than me putting together great collections. I think pinball will manage to keep getting passed down to a younger generation. The Bingo games just aren't appealing as you have no real control over the game. There was never a younger generation of fans. As soon as flipper games came out, it was lights out for Bingo games and hardly anybody looked back.

smartbomb2084:
For all of our sakes, I hope you are right.  I like to think that pinball will be around forever but unless location pinball makes a comeback or the the home market gets cheaper it is doomed to die for only but the dedicated fans like you and me.

Another knife in the bingo game's coffin is the fact that they became illegal in most municipalities because they are really gambling devices at heart. The REAL reason they were popular to begin with. Notice how old EM flipper games all say 'For Amusement Only' on them.

There are a couple of local clubs in my town that still  have a DIXIELAND in the back room on the hush hush and on the wink wink that pay a quarter a credit when you win. It takes 11 quarters to light all the cards and features for one 5 ball game.

Even without flippers these are still games of skill.

AlienInferno:
My wife likes playing Bingo and some of her friends are CRAZY bingo fanatics.  They would probably enjoy playing one of those.  I've never seen them before though.

yurgazam:
hi  do you still have these machines as i would love to own one, used to play these in the cafes of birmingham all those years ago, and won some money too.  please let me know as i would love a full working version, dont know a thing about the workings of them just like to play them

hope you can help

regards

gary

Irwinjoe:
Yes what kind do you have?

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