Created 06-24-2022

Well, I have posted my old .txt files – my old .pdf files – and my old .zip files`

…so, here are the .doc files I have ignored all these years`

Some of this stuff dates way back`…I started with 1879 total files and whittled them down to 264`

Here I thought I’d just “lump” them all together`…except for a few larger ones I link to below`

It was amazing the crap I saved`…but someone might want some of this`

_ ENJOY _

1954 and one ball pinballs.docx	dennis score card mystery emails.docx	Euro Star Notes.docx
Bumper-to-bumper.doc	Dla piper.doc	flipjuke forum thread.doc
By Wally.doc	End of an Era.doc	flipprkasten and bingokast.doc
ByeByeBally.doc	ENTER Bingos.doc	Amusement Only Bingo Pinball Podcast.doc
Chuck.doc	euro continental star (2).doc	FreePlay.doc
Gambling Devices Act.doc	HISTORY.DOC	liqour control.docx
Game Images.docx	irs.doc	Magazine rack.doc
ＧＡＭＥＭＡＣＨＩＮＥ.docx	KEENEY1.DOC	maryland.doc
gen2 casey dixielends thread.docx	lansingburg historical society.docx	MG 4125 libero.doc
great court case TROMBETTA RETURN.docx	Lawhorn.docx	programming notes tscc continental magic.doc
My Very Top Coin Op.doc	Paris court appeal.doc	Post.docx
OpinionCase details.docx	Paul Coates.doc	Punt.doc
Ornage Bean Indiana.docx	Phil B II.doc	Quora on the reflex unit.docx
pair italy.docx	phils h feature descriptions.DOC	Ranking de Máquinas.docx
panne triche bingo.docx	PHLHOWTO.DOC	Rotary switch contact assembly.docx
Scrambling switch.docx	spot lite.docx	Twobraids.docx
scraton news.docx	Star continental playing features.doc	United Motors.docx
changeable score indicating display means.docx	The valentine girl in town.docx	verslag_sectorvergadering_klasse3.doc
this crazy shut the door problem is this switch.doc	Thejohnsonact.doc	White force.docx
Sold item shoot a line set.docx	Triple.doc	Wij doken de café.docx
XDBG033 summary set.docx	XDBG033.docx	公司名稱.doc

_ The Bingos _

1 department of the attorney general state of hawaii notice of ...

ag.hawaii.gov/cjd/files/2013/08/HSA081213.pdf

Aug 12, 2013 - Property Seized: $1,100.00 in U.S. Currency; 2002 Dodge Durango, JYT-850, ... $100.00); 2 Palm Beach Pinball Machines (Total Est. Value: ...

Splin

SPLIN Company is the major bingo manufaturer in Belgium.
It belongs to Mr. Alexis DUPUIS who is nobody else than the inventor of the first electronic 2 cards bingo born in 1978.

Later on came the establishment of import, export and distribution to make Splin what it is today. The company delivers the products of TAB-AUSTRIA, NSM, COMESTERO, GEVIN, LEMNA GROUP...

2. Random Cocktail bar, Chinatown, San Francisco;

This features in my song Wrong Turn. I stumbled upon this place on my
first trip overseas when i was 22. It’s tiny and only seems to be peopled by grumpy old Chinese men playing Bingo-Pinball machines. I’d never even heard of such machines. Unlike
conventional Pinball machines they have holes in the playing field and you
can win money or credits. I played them for a while and even won a few quarters. When I got home I fantasized about it for ages thinking
maybe I’d just dreamed it up. When I went back years later i spent a whole
day trying to find it. The only clue I had to go on was that it had a sign
written on the awning that read ‘where good friends and girls meet’ which is funny because I’ve never seen a girl in there and couldn’t imagine any wanting to be in there especially if they wanted to meet someone.

04-13-2008, 08:29 PM

Minnow

Four Star General Join Date: Sep 2000

Posts: 18,605

I've seen that bingo game, very cool! Took me awhile to get the hang of moving the cards, and when I was playing it I had no idea it paid off in real (jingling) money. Funny, I have posted pix in here before, I'll go do a search in a sec, but checked wiki for the hell of it and found this blurb that mentions the bingo game as well as the gambling factor. :)

Pinball and gambling

Pinball machines, like many other mechanical games, were sometimes used as gambling devices.[2] Some pinball machines, such as Bally's "bingos", featured a grid on the backglass scoring area. Free games could be won if the player was skillful enough to get three balls in a row. However, doing this was nearly random, and the real use for such machines was for gambling (similar to the way many places now use video poker). Other machines allowed a player to accumulate large numbers of free "games" which could then be redeemed for money. This type of feature was later discontinued, in an effort to legitimize the machines. Some games did away with the free game feature, giving players an extra ball to play in an attempt to legitimize them further (Add-A-Ball games), a feature which was carried over to newer pinball machines which give extra balls in addition to free games. Nevertheless, on occasion pinball games have been regulated or banned, notably in New York City beginning in the 1940s and continuing until 1976, when Roger Sharpe (a star witness for the Music and Amusement Association), after testifying in April 1976 before a committee in a Manhattan courtroom that pinball games had become games of skill and were no longer games of chance (gambling), began to play one of two games set up in the courtroom, and — in a move he compares to Babe Ruth's home run in the 1932 World Series — called out precisely what he was going to shoot for, and then proceeded to do exactly so. Astonished committee members reportedly then voted to remove the ban, a result which was then followed in many other cities. Even so, some towns in America still have these bans on the law books over fifty years later. (Sharpe reportedly acknowledges his courtroom shot was ironically lucky.[citation needed])

Most recent games are clearly labeled "FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY" so that the manufacturer can emphasize their legitimate, legal nature.

Pinball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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#6 Bally Manufacturing (1931/32) - Bally was founded by Raymond Moloney in 1931 or 32. It had its roots in Lion Manufacturing and the Midwest Novelty Company (no room for that story here). In 1931, when Moloney was unable to find a company to supply him with enough copies of the latest Gottlieb hit pinball game Baffle Ball, he created a machine of his own and named it Ballyhoo after a humor magazine of the period. He also named his new company Bally. Ballyhoo lived up to its name, selling 50,000 copies.

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I "know" Montana Deluxe machines inside out.
First and foremost, you should know that those machines are required by law to have a mandatory payout percentage of 85%.
Simple, 1000 euros in, 850 euros out. 150 euros remain inside. As much as you think this isn't the case with every machine, it is. You shouldn't start counting. "I put 100 euros in it, I will definitely have 85 euros back". That is not the case. A machine will do it in an irregular pattern. One month it "swallows" a bit more, and the payout percentage is 40%, the other month 120% (yes turns loss), then a perfect month of 85%, then 60%, then 90%, you get it now . But look at it over a longer period of time (6-9-12 months) and you have a perfect payout percentage of 84-86%. That is also very close to the payout percentages of Casinos (electronic then, not live roulette / craps / etc). Only some online casinos, which have a huge clientele, dare to use a payout percentage of 90+, sometimes even 95% +. But that is another matter.
So, Bingo machines are completely legal, and pay out by law. 85% is a fairly high payout margin.
That "magnetic activity" that you sometimes see just kicks in from the moment the machine exceeds its payout percentage very high. Then it is time to "take matters into your own hands". The machine will "tilt" much faster (at the slightest push already), will not take the desired effect, and will certainly make you swear a few times. Now is the time to decide to continue playing. If a machine has a lot of influence on the ball, just get out and let the others fill up. There are certain points where you can pay attention, and notice whether a machine is "full" or not. That "magnetic" is one of them. There are certain games you can try to see "or give the machine". Take Lucky Ball now. If it almost always gives the "magic ball" down, 22 and 25, the machine is "weird". If it almost always gives the "magic ball" above, 1, 7 and 9, then the machine is "normal". The machine is packed when the magic ball gives doubles like 1/9 or 1/7. Then you can "try" to win something. Same money with Open The Box. If it almost always opens the largest amounts, don't touch it. And pay attention to how many "lights" it burns when it leaves a "nice" amount. 1-3 lights, "weird". 4-7 lights "normal", 8+ lights, packed.

And yes, you can "influence" a machine ... First pay attention to the level (you can see under the 24 hole, the machine must be perfectly balanced. If this is the case, you can still have a reasonable influence on the machine I've even seen people who will "shock" you quite nicely with their playing skills, but only in case the machine is really right There are those "corrupt bosses" who fumble with the spirit level, and so the machine put it in a position where the ball will fall down faster, which makes it more difficult to influence the ball By law, a bingo machine is not a slot machine, but more of a game of skill. A hospitality business, although the agility required to win consistently has become very limited unless "you know something about it".
Now, the maximum win per game is NOT 500. With Lucky Ball, you can win much more in one game. I've seen people win 800+ with one game, with extra ball.
Anyways, You will not get rich with it, but you can still earn a nice penny if you play it smart. I know a few of them who literally live on those machines. Are people who "know" where to play. They have a handy agenda handy, on which they keep busy (where they play a lot) cafes. And if the boss of the café is a bit on the "lazy and old" side, he builds a relationship with it, and can unobtrusively ask "is it full?", For a price, of course. For example, these men travel from cafe to cafe for 8-10 hours, ticking off what they can do. They will not be caught by a few miss games and a few losses.
Of course, bosses of cafes can know how much has been put into a machine and gone out. This way they constantly know the current payment percentage, and can estimate approximately when a machine has to pay out. Then they try for themselves. Is not recommended.

You really experience everything ... People who talk to machines, people who caress about those machines, people kick and hit them. You let them do it, eventually it pays off.
And you would really be amazed how much such a machine yields ...
15% does not seem like much, especially if you think that you then have to add another 50% of that 15% to the company where you "rent" them.
Imagine that an average of 20,000 euros is invested every two weeks.
It will pay back 17,000 euros, and 3,000 will stay inside. 1500 euros every two weeks. Isn't it pretty nice?
Then you have to imagine that in some places about 100k to 150k are put in per month, 15000-22500 euros that stays inside. 7500-11250 euros your personal part.
not bad huh
Have played a lot on it myself, and I can honestly say, it didn't make me broke. As long as you know when you should and shouldn't play, you certainly won't make a crazy loss, and I even dare to say I'm in the + with those machines. But that was quite a long time ago, now I don't play, but let me play

30+ Years of Bingos:

Side-by-side and looking pretty. Check out the difference in backboxes, all somewhat different is size and height. 4 Bally’s, a Wimi, and a nice Sirmo:

Miss Bowling Turbo (bingo), 1990s Wimi

Private collector is offering this outstanding condition bingo pinball machine. These types of electronic bingos are manufactured overseas and are not common here in the USA. If you are a true bingo collector and player and love the thrill of gambling on these type of coin operated machines then this is the game for you. Win thousands of replays in one game if you can. Only these electronic type bingos have large payouts that no other bingo game has. This electronic bingo pinball machine is the remake of Bally 1957 classic animated two card bingo pinball called 'Miss America'. The big difference in this electronic bingo is that because of its printed circuit board electronics it also has the OK game feature and before 4th or 5th ball feature that was in the classic magic screen games like Carnival Queen, Sea Island, Golden Gate, and Bikini just to mention a few. The game also has the moving lines feature that can move all 10 lines horizontally and if played correctly allows ! players to make 2 of the same numbers in either of the 2 cards 4 times. Here are all the other extra features built into this spectacular big payout bingo machine that has it all. It has a bonus game, strike bonus game, hit the no. 16 five times lights next game scores bonus feature, star numbers game, four corners, rollovers, striped diagonals, five extra balls capability and multiplier value up to 5 times your coin value or payout value. This loaded with features bingo machine is in like new condition and is as close as to new in the box as you can get. Seeing is believing so stop by and play this game which is still set up in my collection. The game works 100% perfect. E-mail me for many more close up detailed pictures of anything you would like to see on this game. The game is equipped with triple coin shutes and separate triple coin boxes. I will also give to the buyer a assortment of spare parts including a CPU board, turning numbers motors, ball lift motor and more. Y! ou can set up the DIP switches on the main CPU board to allow for a fri ndly playing game which includes all features to be adjusted for your liking. The cabinet is a beautiful solid wood stained finish with a beveled out carved design that looks awesome and would enhance any finished den, rec room, living room or just about any room in the house because of their gorgeous wood cabinets.

Laatste Versie :...Subject: ROUTE 66 versie 0.26PC versie 2003-10-02Wimi Route 66/2Sound Route 661. De berekening van de Signature Electronic werd aangepast volgens het algoritmebeschreven in de versie 2.0 van de dienst Metrologie.2. De 4Stars bonus is aangepast : speelt men de vijf stars aan maximum stake van deactieve bonus, dan bekomt men de 500€.3. De rejectwaarde voor de muntproever werd verhoogd naar 20€.4. Het licentie number (ten gevolge van een upgrade) werd aangepast naarB-03- 010009/02.5. Programma maakt gebruik van een nieuwe wimi route66/26. Twee groepen van vier tellers werden bijgevoegd ( current - en memory counters).Deze tellers kan men bekijken op positie 15 van het mainmenu:TOTAL IN: 000000.00 CURRENTTOTAL OUT: 000000.00 COUNTERSTOT GAME CNT: 00000000 Press A button to viewTOT GAME TIME: 00000000 memory counters· TOTAL IN: totaal aantal gespeelde credits in euro· TOTAL OUT: totaal aantal gewonnen credits in euro· TOT GAME CNT: totaal aantal gespeelde spelen. Wanneer deze de waarde20000 bereikt, worden de current counters eerst getransfereerd en nadien op nulgezet.· TOT GAME TIME: totale spelduurDe transfer van de current counters naar de memory counters gebeurt als de TOTALGAME CNT de waarde 20000 bereikt heeft.Als men op de a button drukt krijgt men de memroy counters te zien:Deze 8 tellers worden gecleard bij een programm install.E L E C T R O N I C G A M E S M A N U F A C T U R I N GEURAUTOMAT NVRef:Route 66 versie 0.26 P2/37. De uitbetalingspercentages zijn instelbaar tussen :Speltype Met extra bal Zonder Extra Bal MaximumSix Card 88% Altijd extra bal 97%Gold Cup 89% 87% 97%Crazy 66 91% 89% 97%Big Show 88% 86% 97%8. Een volgende bal komt naar boven van zodra de voorgaande de ball alley verlaat, endit voor de eerste drie ballen.9. Tijdens de Flip-Flop test zal het test menu niet meer automatisch verlaten worden.10. De animatie werd aangepast. Tijdens de maand december zal men in de animatieeen kerstboom kunnen zien .11. Indien men de eerste 2 ballen snel achter elkaar lanceerde en tegelijkertijd de Xbutton indrukte, was de aangeduide ball-sequence op scherm verkeerd. Het eerstgespeelde nummer werd tweemaal aangeduid.12. Bij een leegloopprocedure van de hopper door de café-uitbater zal de reject van demuntproevers actief zijn. Dit om te voorkomen dat er munten worden ingeworpen dieniet geteld worden.13. Indien men tijdens het afduwen van een Gold Cup game op de X button drukte konhet voorvallen dat de paardjes bleven doorlopen en geen te spelen nummerzichtbaar werd.14. De standaardwaarde van de number of points coinsw 14 en number of points coinsw24 (20 eurocent) kanalen komen op nul te staan. Dit alles om het alarm signaalkomende van de muntproever te kunnen onderscheiden. Het alarmsignaal zal ooklanger hoorbaar zijn.15. Iindien men als wisseleenheid het 1 euro muntstuk gebruikt en de hopperinhoud hadzijn maximum bereikt, aanvaardde het apparaat nog munten, maar gaf er geencredits voor.16. In het menu RESTORE GAME werd de ball sequence of volgorde van gespeeldeballen zichtbaar gemaakt.17. Bij foutcode zal het vacuüm display opvallender zijn.18. Default staat de dipswitch voor het wisselsysteem aan.E L E C T R O N I C G A M E S M A N U F A C T U R I N GEURAUTOMAT NVRef:Route 66 versie 0.26 P3/3Heel belangrijk!!!!: wanneer men deze versie plaatst, moet de software getest worden metde volgende twee sleutels:Indien de checksum verschillend is van bovenstaande tabel moet de eprom dadelijkvervangen worden.q Installatie bingo programma:q Eprom + nieuwe wimi plaatsen.q Clear A + C button, toestel OFF/ON uitvoeren.q Program install uitvoeren.(let op Psionclock!)q Automatisch worden hier:§ Default dipswitches ingeladen§ Preset van de reflex uitgevoerdq Een tweetal spelletjes spelen op alle games met geopende deur.q Muntproevers instellen naargelang de gebruikte waarde voor de geldwisselaar eneven controleren d.m.v. geldinworp.q Clear statistieken en clear groep 1!!Key1 Key2 Key3 Checksum0 0 0 0471255 255 255 C1F0

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Royal Seven

T E C H N I C A L N O T EDate: 26/04/04 Subject: ROYAL SEVEN Software versie 3.04WIMI 04· Aanpassingen ten gevolge van het KB 2003/07/11 (09451)1. De berekening van de Signature Electronic werd aangepast volgens het algoritmebeschreven in de versie 2.0 van de dienst Metrologie.2. De rejectwaarde voor de muntproever werd verhoogd naar 20€.3. Het licentie number (ten gevolge van een upgrade) werd aangepast naarB-02- 010008/014. Een nieuwe WIMI04 ter beveiliging van het programma is voorzien.5. Twee groepen van vier tellers werden bijgevoegd.Deze tellers kan men bekijken op positie 15 van het mainmenu:TOTAL IN: 000000.00 CURRENTTOTAL OUT: 000000.00 COUNTERSTOT GAME CNT: 00000000 Press A button to viewTOT GAME TIME: 00000000 memory counters· TOTAL IN: totaal aantal gespeelde credits in euro· TOTAL OUT: totaal aantal gewonnen credits in euro· TOT GAME CNT: totaal aantal gespeelde spelen. Wanneer deze de waarde20000 bereikt, worden de current counters eerst getransfereerd en nadien op nulgezet.· TOT GAME TIME: totale spelduurDe transfer van de huidige tellers naar de geheugen tellers gebeurt als de TOTALGAME CNT de waarde 20000 bereikt heeft.Als men op de a button drukt krijgt men de geheugen tellers te zien:Deze 8 tellers worden gecleard bij een programm install.6. De uitbetalings percentages zijn instelbaar tussen :Speltype Met extra bal Zonder Extra Bal MaximumSix Card 88% Altijd extra bal 97%Seven Card 88% Altijd extra bal 97%One Ball 91% 89% 97%Super One Ball 91% 89% 97%Deze kan men uitvoeren via :-de Psion-manueel via bijgevoegd sub menu Dipswitches per cent ratio7. Een volgende bal komt naar boven van zodra de voorgaande de ball alley verlaat, endit voor de eerste drie ballen.(zeskaart spelen)8. Een nieuwe WIMI04 ter beveiliging van het programma is voorzien.9. De dump die naar buiten gestuurd wordt voor het passend informatica systeem isgewijzigd10. De standaardwaarde van de number of points coinsw 14 en number of points coinsw24 (20 eurocent) kanalen komen op nul te staan. Dit alles om het alarm signaalkomende van de muntproever te kunnen onderscheiden. Het alarmsignaal zal ooklanger hoorbaar zijn11. Nieuwe software betekent ook dat de Signature electronic gewijzigd is.Heel belangrijk!!!!: wanneer men deze versie plaatst, moet de software getestworden met de volgende twee sleutels.Indien de checksum verschillend is van bovenstaande tabel moet de eprom dadelijkvervangen worden.Key1 Key2 Key3 Checksum0 0 0 53D0255 255 255 14B9 Installatie bingo programma:- Eprom en WIMI plaatsen- Clear A + C button, toestel OFF/ON uitvoeren.- Program install uitvoeren.( let op Psionclock!)- Automatisch worden hier:- Default dipswitches ingeladen- Preset van de reflex uitgevoerd- Alle tellers(groep1) blijven verder doorlopen, dezeworden niet gewist- Invoeren van het PC-programma versie (extensienummer)- Muntproevers instellen naargelang de gebruikte waarde voor de geldwisselaar eneven controleren d.m.v. geldinworp.- Clear statistieken.

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Tripple Seven

Laatste Versie Tripple Seven:T E C H N I C A L N O T E Date: 18-06-04 # pages:1Subject: TRIPLE SEVEN versie 3.09 (vaste bonussen)TRIPLE SEVEN versie 4.09 (variabele bonussen)PC versie 4.01Wimi 777-5Sound Triple Seven 1.11. Tijdens de trekkingen in het Super one ball spel kon het gebeuren dat sommige muntinworpen niet geteld werden. Dit is opgelost.2. Nieuwe software betekent ook dat de Signature electronic gewijzigd is.Heel belangrijk!!!!: wanneer men deze versie plaatst, moet de software getest worden met de volgende twee sleutels. Versie 3.09 Versie 4.09 Indien de checksum verschillend is van bovenstaande tabel moet de eprom dadelijk vervangen worden.Installatie bingo programma:Eprom en WIMI plaatsen- Clear A + C button, toestel OFF/ON uitvoeren.- Program install uitvoeren.( let op Psionclock!)- Automatisch worden hier:- Default dipswitches ingeladen- Preset van de reflex uitgevoerd- Alle tellers(groep1) blijven verder doorlopen, dezeworden niet gewist- Invoeren van het PC-programma versie (extensienummer)- Een tweetal spelletjes spelen op alle games met geopende deur.- Muntproevers instellen naargelang de gebruikte waarde voor de geldwisselaar eneven controleren d.m.v. geldinworp.- Clear statistieken.Key1 Key2 Key3 Checksum0 0 0 9992255 255 255 FC66Key1 Key2 Key3 Checksum0 0 0 4E06255 255 255 1198

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Montana

LAATSTE PROGRAMMAVERSIE:Remarque – MONTANA ET MONTANA 5 version 0415 La fonction décompte ‘ETEINDRE ET ALLUMER AVEC LE BOUTON JAUNE’ est supprimée. Il faut décompter avec une carte ou une clé. Nouvelles version Montana Deluxe G0423 Attention cette version n’est pas compatible avec l’ancienne version G0415 d’un point de vue GPRS à cause des modules wavecom !Il faudra aussi réinstaller un nouveau programme PCCOM pour ceux qui voudront utiliser les nouveaux GPRS. Activation du service SMS Ajout de deux dips : Groupe 2 Dip 23 =ENABLE SMS CASH = 0-1 , (0 par défaut)Lorsque ce dip est sur 0, le service est désactivé.Lorsque ce dip est sur 1, le jeu envoie tous les jours un sms sur le numéro programmé dans le gprs avec les résultats cash de la journée + depuis le début de l’installation du jeu :day in, cash ou, total in, total out. Groupe 2 Dip 24 =ENABLE SMS CHEAT = 0-2 , (0 par défaut)Lorsque ce dip est sur 0, le service est désactivé.Lorsque ce dip est sur 1, le jeu envoie un sms sur le numéro programmé dans le gprs dès qu’un cheat (2-4-7-8-9-19) se produit.Lorsque ce dip est sur 2, le jeu envoie un sms sur le numéro programmé dans le gprs dès qu’un cheat (n’importe lequel) se produit. Ajout d’une fonction dans le service ‘Cash card’ Ajout d’une position dans le dip1 du group3 : « Enable cash display » (0-3,1 par défaut). Lorsque le dip vaut 3, la carte à puce ne permet que de décompter et de remplir le hopper (pas le vider). Hopper Dorénavant l’erreur ‘critical hopper error’ sera entièrement sous dip pour éviter le déplacement technicien, il suffira d’éteindre et de rallumer le jeu pour débloquer une éventuel erreur. Le jeu se mettra en erreur hopper uniquement.

19 Dec 1962, United States Customs Office, Chicago, Illinois, USA

An Internal Revenue Service agent looks over pinball machines seized because they lacked $250 Federal Excise Tax stamps. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

92 *** WILD SHOTS IN THE WAR ON CRIME *** JOURNAL OF PUBLIC LAW ***

As long ago as 1941, when Congress laid a stamp tax on coin-operated gambling devices ³⁷ and provided that the returns would be public records, ³⁸ it was expected that publicity given to the operation of these exploitative devices (illegal most of the time in most of the nation, with the exception of Nevada, and always involving corruption where tolerated) ³⁹ would stamp them out. Instead, in all the intervening years there have been no more than a dozen or so local attacks on slot and pinball empires by the media. ⁴⁰ One still has to go to the obscure back pages of the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue ⁴¹ to see the picture, as appalling today as it has always been.

The I.R.S. tables show premises where gambling devices are operated, ⁴² (a single premise may indicate a large number of machines). In fiscal 1969, with Nevada reporting 1,587 gambling locations, for comparison, Maryland (where the machines were supposed to have been "phased out" in 1968) ⁴³ showed 2,183; South Carolina showed 2,044; Tennessee showed 2,241; the figure for Arkansas was 1,776; for Washington, 1,451; for West Virginia, 854; Ohio, 679; Mississippi, 621; and Indiana, 528. For further comparison, in all of New England, except Massachusetts (with 107), there was not a single registered gambling premise. There was not one in the state of New York, nor in Texas, Wisconsin, or North Dakota. In short, throughout approximately half the nation, to stay with only this one example, a predatory and wholly illegal racket is being run without hindrance despite foolproof official disclosure of exactly who is in it ⁴⁴ and where it operates, and the media stand by in silence, have stood by silently for thirty years.

37. Act of Sept. 20, 1941, Pub. L. No. 77-250, § 555, 55 Stat. 722 [codified in 26 U.S.C. §§ 4461-63 (1964)].

38. Act of Aug. 16, 1954, Pub. L. No. 84-307, ch. 736, 68 Stat. 730 (codified in 26 U.S.C. § 6107 (1964)].

39. See R. KING, GAMBLING AND ORGANIZED CRIME (1968); V. PETERSON, GAMBLING: SHOULD IT BE LEGALIZED? (1951).

40. Notably by the Baltimore Sun (consistently for many years), the Chicago American and Sun-Times (intermittently), the Louisville Courier Journal (when needed, with good effect), and (recently) the Shreveport Times.

41. See, e.g., INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER 104, 107, 118 (1969).

42. Id.

43. See R. KING, supra note 39, at 130-37.

44. Similar disclosure provisions pertaining to the comparable excise and occupational taxes on wagering [26 U.S.C. §§ 4401-03, 4411-12 (1964)), were found to be violative of the fifth amendment in 1968 in Grosso v. United States, 390 U.S. 62 (1968), and Marchetti v. United States, 390 U.S. 39 (1968). The tax on slot machines, which do not have constitutional privileges, is probably not in jeopardy. But the Internal Revenue Service is concerned over a recent decision, United States v. United States Coin &;Currency, 39 U.S.L.W. 4415 (U.S. April 5, 1971), which extended the Grosso-Marchetti ruling retroactively and could seriously impair the Government's seizure powers.

Monday, Jul. 23, 1956

Mayor's Nest

The day after Daniel F. (for Francis) McDevitt took office as Democratic mayor of Reading, Pa. last January, he made a florid announcement: he was going to drive out the gamblers. He gave pinball-machine operators 24 hours to get rid of some 1,000 "multi-coin" machines (in which players can insert a number of nickels to boost payoff odds). But Mc-Devitt's crusade was a resounding flop. After 19 days, in which three pinball distributors and two operators were arrested, he lifted the ban. His reason: the city (pop. 114,200) could not legally outlaw the machines. But Daniel McDevitt warned citizens nevertheless that Reading's 150-man force would maintain "sharp vigilance" to prevent gambling. Vowed the mayor: "We shall not permit the location of such devices near schools."

The politically independent Reading Times (circ. 36,911) found the sharp vigilance soon blunted. When newsmen last May found ten gambling machines within one block of three junior high schools, McDevitt said he would do his best to have them removed. But the Times reported that pinball machines were, if anything, more plentiful than ever. Fortnight ago, in his "Old Pete" column in the Times, City Editor Richard C. Peters, 36, reported: "The old mob openly and brazenly admits that it shelled out half a million in 'restoring' a situation to its liking. The mob admits that it has gotten back the half million."

Reading Jail. Next day T-men called City Editor Peters, confided plans to raid Reading's pinball-machine operators that afternoon for nonpayment of the $250 federal gambling tax. The Times covered the raid, broke out its 96-point head type next morning to banner City Hall Reporter Charles H. Kessler's story on the seizure of 44 machines. Under a Page One picture of a raid on the Reading House tavern, the paper made a sharp note: the place had belonged to the mayor until his city hall job forced him to transfer ownership to a brother.

Danny McDevitt at first said that he found the raids "quite amusing." But he soon changed his mind. One afternoon last week, when mild-mannered Reporter Kessler checked in at Reading's grey old city hall, he found the second-floor pressroom locked; the gold-and-black PRESS lettering on the door had been scraped off. When Reporter Kessler called the news to City Editor Peters, a photographer was sent over to take a gag picture of Kessler sitting forlornly on city hall steps with a typewriter in his lap. As Kessler headed back into city hall, he was intercepted by McDevitt and Police Chief Bernard F. Richards. "Lock him up," said the mayor. The startled newsman was booked for disorderly conduct and packed off to a cell. Kessler's fine, later appealed by the Times: $50.

"Gestapo Methods." In a full-scale war on the Times and its sister paper, the evening Eagle, onetime Top Sergeant McDevitt, 39, had the press table removed from city council chambers, ordered police to trail news photographers, canceled newsmen's longtime immunity from parking tickets. McDevitt's police dogged Eagle-Times delivery trucks, handed their drivers 73 tickets in four days, before the mayor relented. McDevitt denied that "those federal technicalities," i.e., the raids, were to blame, said he merely wished to prove that he was no "docile doormat for smart-aleck reporters." Said Reporter Kessler: "It's a frightening, bitter feeling when Gestapo methods are used to jail an innocent person."

Photographs were taken at Belvedere Billiard (Benny's) in 1957. Many of these are the Diner Guys. Archival gicle?® prints (ink jet) have been made from the digitized negatives.

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1973: L’altra faccia del padrino

IMDB: L’altra faccia del padrino
Anno: 1973
Regia: Franco Prosperi
Interpreti: Alighiero Noschese, Lino Banfi, Minnie Minoprio
Genere: commedia
Apparizione: una Slot machine “Bally Super Treble Chance” e un’altra da identificare, un Juke-Box e un Bingo vengono distrutti a colpi di sedie
Dove: in un bar
Segnalato da: Lucablob
(click to enlarge pictures)

_ 1997 was a hot Year _

2008 Email from Phil B

Hi Danny,

Long time no talk. Looks like you’re back into getting the site updated. Thanks!

I was going over some of the new stuff. You have “A Las Vegas Story” dated 3/24/08. ( http://danny.cdyn.com/lasvegas1.htm ) . This amazed me, because if you refer to my article written over five years ago ( http://danny.cdyn.com/Bingo%20Pinballs9.htm ), the tenth paragraph refers to the story about meeting a pit boss in Las Vegas named “Spitter” who had come from Louisiana to Las Vegas.

Incredible, it has to be the same guy.

Small world.

Best to you,

Phil

11月27

シグマ ICビンゴシリーズ

先日、バイヨンに行って沢山写真を撮ってきたうちの一つをご紹介します。
といってもICビンゴの残りの機種なんですけどね。

はい、こちらがエルドラドです。

ちょっと写真がボケてしまっててすみません。
シグマのICビンゴシリーズは合計12機種あるらしいです。
で、バイヨンには3機種が並んでいました。
ボクはICビンゴについては素人なので、この3機種の違いが良く分かりませんでした。
なんか微妙な違いがあるようです。
こちらは先日もご紹介したチェロキーローズです。
なお、ICビンゴと呼ばれるだけあって、内部の制御系は全て半導体のICによってなされているわけですが、その構造や基板を見たことがないので何とも言えないところがあるんですが、多分、「IC」と名前についていると言うことは、ROMなどを用いたプログラム式ではなく、論理ICを組み合わせた回路式の制御なんだろうなと思います。
前身のリレー式ビンゴピンボールのことを考えたら、たぶん、論理ICをせっせと組み合わせて作るのは、非常に自然な流れですわね。
ただ、そう考えると一体いくつのゲートを組み合わせているのか興味があったり恐ろしかったり。(笑)
そういえば、昔々、ブロック崩しと言うゲームがありましたけど、あの白黒画面のアーケード版は論理ICだけで作られていました。
その時代は「ゲームを作る＝図面を書く」という世界だったんでしょうね。
こちらはパステルシャワーという機種です。
これらのICビンゴは、素人向けに説明すると、どれも同じルールです。
でも、上級者の目線で見ると、上級者向けルールに違いがあるようで、そういうギリギリなプレイを楽しめる人にとっては、自分に合う自分の好きな機種が明確にあるんでしょうね。
今回バイヨンに行った時には、このビンゴピンボールをちゃんと遊ぼうと決めていました。
そこで、ちゃんとゲームの説明を聞いたりしたんですが、遊んでみて思ったのは、これら1980年頃のビンゴを題材にしたメダルゲーム機が、その後のビンゴ系のメダルゲームの基本的なルールをほとんど作っていた、と言うことですね。それに気づかされたのが良かったです。
特に、1,000円で35枚のメダル貸しレートの時代、いやもっとレートが高かったのかもしれませんが、その時代にメダルを100枚単位で投入し、1つのゲームで300枚ぐらい平気で飲み込んでしまうと言う極悪さ(笑)を併せ持ったICビンゴのルールに、このゲームの先見性を見た気がしました。
もちろん、1メダルでゲームを楽しむこともできます。
でも、例えば600枚当てたプレイヤーには、手持ちメダル600枚なりの遊び方が用意されているんです。
それって、凄いでしょ？
なので、現在の格安なメダル貸し出しレートのゲーセンでも、十分楽しめるわけです。
しかも、ベット数を沢山積めば、確実にオッズが上がるというものではなく、沢山ベットすれば沢山当たる配当をゲットできるかもしれない、いや、沢山ベットしたのに、全然低いオッズになる場合もある、という気まぐれルールなわけ。
こういう部分も良く考えられているなと関心してしまいました。

あと、ICビンゴにはエクストラボールと言うルールがあるんですが、これは、5球でゲームが終了した後で、メダルを追加することでもう1球、玉を投じることができると言うルールです。
このルールをボクは「土下座のもう1球」と呼ぶことにしました。
ゲームが終了して、負けが確定した際に土下座してもう1球をお願いするわけですから。
なぜ土下座なのかと言うと、エクストラボールを得るためには、追加メダルを入れ続けないといけないからです。
5メダル入れたらもう1球もらえるという決まったルールはありません。
そこは機械側の気まぐれで決まるんですね。
そのため、エクストラボールを得るために、メダルを100枚も投じる事もあります。
いえ、100枚投じてエクストラボールを貰えれば良いんですが、もらえないことも稀にあります。
この辺りが極悪なルールなんですね。
まさに「土下座のもう1球」です。(笑)
なお、エクストラボールは最大で3球までもらえます。
ボクはこのエクストラボールを得るのに、350枚吸い取られました。
この機械、舐めてたらとんでもないことになります。(涙)
注記：この記事は2013年11月27日 0:00 に一度アップされましたが、その後、記事の内容を変更し、再度アップしなおしました。(修正版公開日時 2013/11/28 18:30)

https://www.in-vendita.it/bally-bingo

Bennington Banner Newspaper Archives, Jan 20, 1962, p. 7

newspaperarchive.com › ... › 1962 › January 20

The amused Smiles didn't last long, because the subject at hand was serious —a proposed law to ban gambling type pinball machines that can't be touched ...

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今回は、シグマのCHEROKEE　ROSEです。基本ルールはビンゴギャラクシーのように3つ以上並ぶと当たりとなります。youtubeはじめました

sigma ALTEMIS（アルテミス）1985 ICビンゴ・ピンボールの時代

3:25 PM · May 11, 2019·Twitter Web Client

まさかまだ判明する部分があるとも思わなかったけど 赤：CHEROKEE ROSE（チェロキー・ローズ） 青：ANDROMEDA（アンドロメダ） 黄：Pastel Shower（パステル・シャワー） 緑：Kasandra（カサンドラ） 全て simga 製 ICビンゴ・ピンボール。当時シグマさんが力を入れていた物。設定は1988年夏で確定。

11:52 AM · May 17, 2019·Twitter Web Client

The last of the Bally "OK" screengames manufactured. This machine is in excellent condition and fully operational. This Malibu has been in my collection for about 3 years. It has been shopped and restored to full  electromechanical condition. This machine functions perfectly. The front door and legs have been freshly painted. The wood has been stripped and refinished. The backglass is perfect and includes an applied protective laminate. The playfield has been stripped and cleaned, new rubbers installed. A late model ball shooter with guide sleeve has been installed. New playfield cards are installed. This Malibu still has the "score extra step" installed and works great for those occasional double and triple score, sometimes quad jumps. The reflex unit has been set to the "sweet" spot and modified to remain there. This machines coins up beautifully with full high odds games and screens.

My friend Mr. Hugh Kown, "Old Binger", has installed a modification on the "come back" key to allow the player to run up the register for as many games as he or she wants to start with by simply holding down the key. You no longer have to flip the key for each game added. For nostalgia buffs, the 25 cent coin mechanism is fully functional. The cabinet has the usual "bar room" scuffs and scratches" but the graphics are still in great shape. Manufactured in 1980, Bally produced this Malibu Beach as a tribute to the beloved "OK" screen game machines everyone loved, and was the last machine that Bally ever made. After the Malibu Beach, Bally closed it's doors.

The buyer can pick up at "The Ballyhole" in Baton Rouge and I will help to load.

A different kind of pinball

Submitted by Bill Cary on Sun, 08/09/2015 - 8:32pm.

These probably were gambling pinball machines, not today's fun arcade games. This type of gambling via pinball machine was somewhat condoned in Tennessee through the 1970's although the business hosting the machine wouldn't pay out a win if the wrong people were around. The wrong people usually meant a known police officer or an officer in uniform.

I cannot vouch for Alabama but they were commonplace in establishments throughout the mid-South in the 1960s and '70s in bars, VFW halls, and restaurants and included switches to move columns or rows to better line up the spent balls. The player tried to line up according to the wins listed on the table or special lines on the back glass. Winning combinations, when payouts were possible, would usually garner ten to twenty dollars for five in a row or fifty dollars for a more complex pattern.

I first played this type of machine as a young boy in Springfield, Tennessee in a diner. I had no idea what the machine was doing and since I was under 18 I couldn't be paid or any wins. Two quarters into the play I determined the pinball game wasn't any fun and I returned to the family at the table. After Tennessee finally banned the games and raided establishments to eliminate them completely they were replaced in those same establishments with more sophisticated and smaller video poker machines.

[Contemporary accounts mention both "pinball with payoff" and the standard arcade-style game. Below, excerpts from "The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama", an attorney general's report and a list of Phenix City establishments off limits to soldiers at Fort Benning. - Dave]

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Cedo questo bel Flipper BINGO degli anni 90. flipper

A rare sight! A Bally "Malibu Beach" bingo converted to nickel payout! Traditional legs have been replaced with a solid body cabinet to accomodate the addition of the pay out hopper. After the game is over, if you have a winner, you press the replay button to collect your games just as you would on a regular replay bingo. Your winning score is added just as it would normally. BUT, when you turn off the game and then turn it back on, the replay counter counts down AND pays you off in nickels! Great gambling fun! To the bingo illiterate: Malibu Beach was the last Bally Magic Screen game. Strangely, the playfield on this game is from a Bally "Bounty" bingo which is very rare. Everthing works great and the game pays off as it should. The playfield was completely stripped, cleaned, waxed, polished, and rerubbered. The red playfield posts have the correct Bally "dead" rubber. The playfield has a few scratches but nothing serious. Cabinet has some scratches and cigarette burns. Backglass is beautiful with just a small scratch in the letter "M" in Malibu. Backglass has been sealed with Triple Thick. New reproduction instruction cards. This is a rare opportunity to own a legendary game. Good luck and I hope this game finds a good home. NO RESERVE! Due to laws regulating the sale of antique slot machines, I, as the seller, will not sell to members in the states of Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Bids from members residing in any of these states will be cancelled

A “Miss Diamond Turbo” pinball glass by Inter Matic Manufacturing from the United Kingdom.

Aangeboden » Bingo Royal Skittle met garantie

Prijs » € 575

Beschrijving »

De opvolger van de Miss Bowling.
De bingo werkt perfect en heeft een nieuwe glasplaat bovenaan.

Hij heeft 3 bonussen, Quick extra ball (6 ballen per spel), One Ball, same game, 2 en 3 sterren, super D lines, ...

Door middel van een drukknop kan je er credits opzetten.

De bingo kan eventueel geleverd en geinstalleerd worden.

Alle bingo's worden verkocht met garantie en worden optimaal ingesteld voor privégebruik zo ben je zeker van een toestel waar je veel plezier aan zal hebben.

Bezoek ook eens mijn webwinkel of homepage voor andere bingo's.

Indien er toch eens een defect moest zijn dan kan je steeds rekenen op herstelling.

About us

The company SEEBEN is part of a group of companies working in many different fields of the economy such as games operation in Belgium , computer software and hardware (we are IBM dealer in the French speaking part of Belgium), bowlings operation, arcades operation , and real estate . The Company SEEBEN exists for more than 40 years, and started its business as the Seeburg Juke Boxes Distributor for the Benelux countries in 1967. Seeburg in Chicago / USA used to be the most important juke boxes manufacturer in the world until 1980 when the company stopped producing vynil machines. In 1976 , Mr. V. Bosquin purchased SEEBEN who steadely grew since then.

As far as the amusement games and the gambling machines, SEEBEN is in the middle of 3 activities :

1. Manufacture

where the company SIRMO GAMES designs , develops and manufactures Bingosand AWP's. Research and development department studies and adapts its machines to any country's legal requirements or customer's request.

2. Operation

where the group of companies UNIBOX GAMES operates amusement games , gambling machines and AWPs in Belgium . The operation in the bars, cafés and in the amusement halls or arcades is the main job of these companies since another department also operates Bowlings Alleys in other shopping centers.

3. Distribution

where SEEBEN imports, buys and resells or sells its products in Belgium but also everywhere in the world. The main companies represented by SEEBEN are : SIRMO GAMES (Belgium) of course, ASTRA (UK), CHANGE (Italy), AMATIC (Austria), etc...

The company SEEBEN sells and distributes used and new machines in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Middle East. Our international reputation has built up thanks to the quality of our machines and the follow up regarding the technical support and the spare parts supply which are very important in our business. SEEBEN is official JCM service center for Belgium. Our technical department knows perfectly well its job and the way to help all customers in case of problem.
Always at the sharp end of technology, SEEBEN's commercial department participates and visits most of the exhibitions around the world .

Abra ca dabra

zijn er nog BINGO-kasten te koop ?!

Gepost door: Rik Drommel ()

Datum: 10 december 2003 20:39

Ik ben op zoek naar iets heel ouds !!!

een BINGOKAST uit mijn jeugd.....waar je met knopjes op je dashbord ,met een motortje 3 of 4 of 5 op een rij kon draaien.
Dit is voor heel wat flipper-enthousiasten misschien....abra-ca-dabra ........

Je verzamelde dan punten...en had genoeg punten verdient....dan zette de speelautomatemn eigenaar de kast weer op nul....en dan kon je een prijs ( meestal een blok chocolade ) uitzoeken !
Ik weet nog dat die in de kerkstraat in Zandvoort te bespelen waren, bij de plaatselijke gokautomaten hal van Leo Heino.

Enfin ....niemand zal wel weten waar ik zo'n antieke kast op de kop zou kunnen tikken. En die moet nog spelen...en eventueel te repareren zijn ook.
Ik zal wel een museumstuk zoeken !

De namen van die Bingokasten weet ik nog wel... MISS AMERICA...en CYPRESS GARDEN en MIAMI BEACH etc.

Wie kan mij verder helpen?

bedankt alvast

Les jeux de hasard dans les cafés belges de moins en moins accessibles:

"Si un mineur est gagnant, il n'a pas ses gains"

Bernard Lobet, publié le 10 avril 2019 à 07h28

Un projet de loi vient d'être adopté. Les cafetiers ne pourront plus avoir plus de 4 machines, et ils feront l'objet d'une enquête d'antécédents. L'identité des joueurs sera contrôlée.

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Les patrons de café ont refusé de témoigné à notre micro car le sujet reste un peu tabou.

Les joueurs, eux, n'ont pas leur langue en poche. Parmi les jeunes que nous avons rencontrés, beaucoup ont déjà joué dans un café, sur une machine à sous, "Bingo" ou autre. "Je mets 50 euros, point barre. Je gagne, je gagne, je perds, je perds et je m'en vais", a déclaré l'un d'eux.

L'âge des joueurs, d'après eux, "n'est jamais demandé", or il faut être majeur. "Rien de plus facile, un mineur rentre pour aller aux toilettes et va mettre 10 euros. Et puis quoi ? S'il est gagnant, c'est à ce moment-là qu'on demande la carte, et il n'a pas ses gains !".

Contrôle de carte d'identité

Désormais, pour tous les jeux de hasard dans les cafés, il faudra montrer patte blanche, et donc insérer sa carte d'identité dans un lecteur. "C'est bien pour les jeunes qui ne connaissent pas les dangers des jeux de hasard et ce que ça peut entraîner", nous a déclaré un joueur.

D'après un autre, "il faudrait croiser les bases de données avec les gens qui sont listés par la commission des jeux de hasard, or ils peuvent aller jouer dans les cafés" s'ils ont plus de 18 ans (contrôles qui sont effectués dans les agences de pari, pas les cafés).

Autres mesures ce projet de loi: ces agences de pari ne pourront plus s'installer près d'une école ou d'un hôpital. Et elles devront conclure des conventions avec les communes dont le rôle de contrôle est renforcé.

Accessory for game apparatus

US US2317506A Lyndon A Durant Harry E Williams

Priority 1942-02-23 • Filed 1942-02-23 • Granted 1943-04-27 • Published 1943-04-27

Allrll 27,1943- H. E. wxLLlAM Erm. ACCESSORY FOR GAME APPARATUS Filed Feb. 23, 1942 BY//m Patented Apr. 27, 1943 ACCESSORY FOR GAME APPARATUS Harry E. Williams and Lyndon A. Durant, Chicago, Ill. Application February 23, 1942, Serial No. 431,916 4 Claims. This invention relates to game apparatus

Les règles du Bingo belge

Le 17/08/2009 | 21 commentaires

En Belgique, "un café sans bingo est comme une bière sans mousse", extrêmement rare. Le territoire compte par ailleurs environ 12 000 machines. Quels sont les règles du bingo belge ?

Un jeu très populaire

Dans ce pays, le bingo a beaucoup de succès. Les gens vont se retrouver au café à la sortie du travail et jouer au bingo, une ou plusieurs parties.

Ils peuvent boire leur consommation tout en restant à côté de leur table de jeu, ce qui n’est pas possible dans un casino. L’ambiance y est aussi beaucoup plus conviviale. De plus, le jeu est très accessible et les règles du bingo sont faciles à comprendre.

Le bingo belge, un flipper à trous !

Il est composé d’une planche de 26 trous de 2 ou 6 cartes. Le but est de compléter une ligne avec 5 billes. Seulement, les chiffres doivent se suivre.

C’est un jeu de hasard et donc de chance, qui mêle aussi bien adresse et technique. En effet, si l’on dose bien sa force au moment de lancer la boule d’acier, on peut influer sur sa trajectoire. Il suffit donc simplement d’attraper le « truc ».

Les mises vont de 0,25 € à 6,25 € et peuvent rapporter jusqu’à 500 € à l’heureux gagnant.

Une réglementation stricte

La loi du 7 mai 1999 donne aux jeux de hasard encore autorisés, parmi eux le Bingo et le One-ball, un caractère légal. Les cafetiers désirant se munir d’une machine de jeu doivent obtenir une licence de la Commission des Jeux de Hasard.

La CJH analyse les gains, les mises ainsi que toutes interventions faites sur la machine. Il y a une surveillance constante.

Pour éviter de commettre des excès ou bien de devenir dépendants, les joueurs sont contrôlés et ne peuvent dépenser plus de 12,50 € par heure. De plus, les usagers ne peuvent se servir de leur carte de crédits et doivent être âgés d’au moins 18 ans.

Si l’exploitant ne respecte pas ces impératifs, il peut encourir des poursuites judiciaires allant du retrait de sa licence à une condamnation pénale.

Une affaire qui roule

Le Bingo permet au café de s’en sortir avec la conjoncture économique difficile et la loi sur l’interdiction de fumer dans les établissements publics.

Il y a généralement deux machines par café. Celles-ci sont financées par des entreprises extérieures qui reçoivent en échange un pourcentage sur les recettes.

Les cafetiers perçoivent environ 40% des bénéfices et peuvent gagner jusqu’à 1500 € par mois. Le bingo est aussi source d’emplois puisqu’il ne faut pas moins de 7 techniciens pour entretenir la table de jeu.

Aiken Standard Newspaper Archives, Oct 26, 2001, p. 35

https://newspaperarchive.com › ... › 2001 › October 26

Oct 26, 2001 — S K I L L P I N S ELECTRONIC BINGO PINBALL GAMES Patented programs. Pinball King Fred Collins 864-268-1179 NOTICE Fraudulent pet dealers may ...

Alan FrFelming Remembers

From: FrFleming@aol.com

To: leach1580@comcast.net

Subject: Re: Don Hooker.

Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:05:27 +0000

My mailing address is:

2638 Boyle Street

Carson City NV 89703

Our route was based in Reno, NV. I worked it from 1981 to around 1995. The company was General Coin Machine, originally owned by Mel McGuire. I think Phil bought him out around 1975. There were a lot of these machines around Reno. They were in lots of Casinos & Bars. The other operators, I remember, were Nevada Novelty, J&J novelty, & Clyne, the Juke box man. Video games slowly took over because they could make more money and use less space. We always gripe about that because the Bingos were more a game of skill and required physical action. I guess people are lazier today! Let me know of any other questions you might have. Phil Knows a lot more than me. He worked with gambling pinball all his life beginning with the one ball games, which he still enjoys. Thanks ALAN

All-in

Belgium: One-Ball and bingo legislation for pubs under scrutiny

Belgium July 9, 2013 by Admin

A recent draft bill proposed to amend the Belgian Gaming Act so as to allow municipalities to restrict the number of gaming machines in pubs.

Regulatory framework.

Under the Belgian Gaming Act of 7 May 1999, the operation of games of chance is restricted to entities holding a license granted by the Belgian Gaming Commission. The Gaming Act makes a distinction between several classes of establishments in which games of chance may be offered: casinos, arcades, betting shops and pubs.

In accordance with the definition used by the Belgian Public Service on Public Health (in order to apply the general smoking ban in the hotel and catering industry), the Gaming Commission defines pubs (under the Gaming Act referred to as “Class III establishments”) as establishments of which the main activity consists exclusively in offering beverages for on-the-spot consumption, including alcoholic beverages, and where no food products for on-the-spot consumption are offered other than prepacked products.

Pubs must obtain a C license from the Gaming Commission when intending to offer games of chance in their establishment. The C license only allows for the installation of two types of electronic billiard games, namely Bingo and One-ball machines (Royal Decree 2 March 2004), hence the organization of other games of chance is prohibited. Moreover, pubs are not allowed to place more than two of those machines in their establishment.

According to its 2012 annual report, nearly 8000 Belgian pubs have obtained a C license from the Gaming Commission.

The regulations criticized.

Recently, the mayors of Schaarbeek, Sint-Joost-ten-Node and Evere, 3 municipalities in the Brussels Region have uttered objections against the legal provisions above-cited.

In their respective municipality councils, a motion was voted in which the Federal Government is urged to revise the Gaming Act.

More in particular, the mayors require that the municipal authorities, under certain conditions and with due justification, be granted the competence for their municipality to either limit the maximum number of gaming machines to one per establishment (instead of two) or to impose a maximum amount of Bingo/One-ball machines in their municipality.

As a motion by the municipalities is not binding for the legislator, the mayor of Schaarbeek, in his capacity of MP, introduced a draft bill to change the Belgian Gaming Act in accordance with what has been stated in the municipality motions (giving competence to the municipalities to restrict the number of gaming machines in their territory). This draft bill is yet to be discussed in the Belgian Parliament. It will be worthwhile following whether this draft bill will reach the plenary session and whether a sufficient majority will be found to adopt its proposed measures.

Should you have any further questions regarding the above, please contact Patrick Van Eecke (Patrick.vaneecke@dlapiper.com) or Antoon Dierick (Antoon.dierick@dlapiper.com).

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This is the Continental Magic Game Bingo, by TSCC in 1991. Although the game reminds a flipper pinball, it's a completely different game. I made this video to demonstrate its gameplay. Bingos usually have more buttons in the lockdown bar than flipper pinballs, that usually have only one for some special feature. This one has number buttons for statistics and one to set the stake on the right. There's also an extra ball and start buttons on the coin door. Unlike flipper pinball, you can spend a lot more credits in one game. You could play a game with just one credit, but to get all the cards and see all the game's features, you have to use over 10 credits. First we set the stake, this machine is set for Euro cents. I select 5 cent stake. The first start button push gives me one card. Another push gives me the second and so forth until the 6th card. 7th push gives the red diagonal lines for the cards 1 to 3. The next does the same for the rest of the cards. Then we get double score for one of the top row cards. And the next one does the same for lower row. The next feature doubles the score if you hit the lit magic number here. Next one adds prizes for landing 3, 4 or 5 balls next to eachother in the playfield. And the last is the name game, the "magic game", where one of the cards will be "magic", and in that card the golden numbers will give you these scores. At this point we've bought all the features, but we can wager more to increase the payout. Now we have the largest winnings possible. At this point the we have wasted 390 credits, which is 3,90 euro! Five. Four. The game is now suggesting two winning shots. As we can win with having 3 balls next to eachother, the machine is suggesting 3 and 6. I still have 3 balls left. Twenty-four. Twenty-three. Ten. There was atleast one 3-in-line. And nothing else. Now I can buy an extra ball for 497 credits. And there's possibility for 4-in-line, which gives 600 credits. Let's give it a try. Nine. 120 credits for 3-in-line. But nothing else. The next extra ball is 939 credits... The maximum win is 9000 credits for 5 in a line, let's give it a try. I can't get 5 in a row with this ball. It went all the way down and I can shoot it again. Another freebie. Obviously it doesn't want to stay! Nineteen. That's a 4 in line. The next extra ball goes for 2130. Let it roll! Got one 3 in line. And nothing else. At this point the extra balls are so expensive, that there's no point continuing this round. So I press Start once and the game returns to attraction mode. Let's play another round. This time I got a bonus mode. 4 corners gives a 5 in line. Twenty. I notice one 3 in line, so I've already won something. Twenty-four. Let's try that again. Two. That was the fifth ball, so it paid out the 3 line line I got earlier. Extra all is 238 credits. I'll take it. Seventeen. Got two 3 in lines. The next one goes for 2000 credits. There's 9000 credits to be won if I'd hit 16. The card number 6 has the jackpot! I'll try my luck. No, not there! It's still about the same price, so I'll continue. 3rd extra ball. This machine has 10 balls, so you can buy the maximum of 5 extra balls. Towards the end they become so expensive they're not worth it. One. That gave me 3 in line. I'll give the 5 in line another try. Oh, I guess we won't! We're now so poor we can't afford it any more! I guess I need to admit my defeat and return to the attraction mode.

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Jan De Schamphelaere

28 januari 2021 06:00

‘We kunnen niets doen. Niets. We draaien nul komma nul omzet. Maar in crisistijden doe je soms de beste zaken.’ Dat zegt Tony Rus, de oprichter en eigenaar van Tony Rus Group, gespecialiseerd in de exploitatie van kansspelen.

Denk aan slotmachines, elektronische roulettes en Bingo-toestellen die op café de bijnaam ‘den bak’ dragen. Tony Rus heeft verspreid over België zo’n 2.300 kansspelen staan in cafés, wedkantoren en gokhallen (lees: automatische casino’s).

De ondernemer - oorspronkelijk reparateur van caféspelen - ging 35 jaar geleden van start, met de verkoop van een tafelvoetbalspel. Dan volgden flipperkasten en biljarttafels. Intussen is de focus helemaal verlegd naar gokautomaten, waarvoor hij marktleider is in ons land.

De winst van de machines wordt verdeeld tussen de uitbater van het pand en Rus. Dat leverde in 2019 25 miljoen euro omzet en een kleine nettowinst op. ‘Maar nu is de hele horeca dicht. Al maanden. En als er niet gespeeld wordt, komt er ook niets binnen’, verwoordt hij de malaise op dit moment.

Het ziet er niet goed uit voor de horeca. Als de lockdown nog twee maanden of langer aanhoudt, gaan er veel zaken sneuvelen.

‘Het ziet er niet goed uit voor de horeca. Als de lockdown nog twee maanden of langer aanhoudt, gaan veel zaken sneuvelen. Dan wordt het een ramp’, zegt hij. Hij geeft aan het zelf ook moeilijk te hebben, maar gelooft in een goede afloop. 'Ik heb altijd een beleid gevoerd om buffers aan te leggen. Het mag uiteraard niet meer te lang duren.'

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De noodgedwongen pauze in horecaland is voor Rus het moment om vooruit te kijken en toekomstplannen te smeden. ‘In crisistijden doe je soms de beste zaken’, zegt hij.

Grote overname in Wallonië

Onlangs rondde hij de overname af van Splin, een Waalse fabrikant van onder meer Bingo-toestellen. Die haalde met 13 werknemers  voor de pandemie 5 miljoen euro omzet en een nettowinst van ruim 1 miljoen euro. Volgens de laatst neergelegde jaarrekening bedroeg het eigen vermogen zowat 8 miljoen euro.

In Nederland bouwen we een voormalige discotheek om tot een casino, in eigen beheer.

Hoeveel Tony Rus Group op tafel legde is niet duidelijk ‘Voor ons is het een grote overname. En strategisch een belangrijke. We krijgen nu controle over het ontwerp van nieuwe producten. Daar ben ik volop mee bezig.'

Hij mikt met Splin op groei in het buitenland. ‘In de VS hebben we onze eerste vier machines geleverd in Kentucky’, klinkt het. In Nederland is hij bezig met expansie. 'We bouwen er een voormalige discotheek om tot een casino, in eigen beheer.'

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APPEALS COURT UPSETS 'BINGO' PINBALL RULING

SECTION ONE Sep 29, 1956

A federal District court ruling that "bingo type" pinball machines in which a payoff is made are slot machines was reversed yesterday by the United States Court of Appeals.

Chicago Tribune September 29, 1956 | Chicago Tribune Archive

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Sept. 29, 1956

Argentina Write In:

RE: Im looking for a Bingo pinball machine

Monday, January 14, 2008 6:01 AM

From:

"Guelman, Alejandro" <alejandro@guelman.net>

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To:

"Danny Leach" <bingopinballs@yahoo.com>

Hola Danny,

Thank you for your prompt response to my question.

Actually, I live in Argentina and is very difficult to find a machine in good condition. Most of them were cannibalized many years ago.

About the game itself, I prefer the latest like the ones you mention in your mail.

It seems that you are really an expert and know a lot about this games and marketplace. Can you help me to detect and buy a good machine?

Kind Regards,

Alejandro

Ari

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http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=5658

http://www.place2play.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=406&p=2772

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ARTICLE: The Free Replay Feature in Pinball Machines: A Fresh Look at the Elements of Gambling and a Revised Method of Analysis

2002

41 Brandeis L.J. 297

Author

Brian Lester *

INTRODUCTION

To most people, gambling arouses images of casinos, horse racing, slot machines, sports betting, and lotteries, just to name a few. As a historical matter, it spans much of history as forms of gambling are said to have been around even before the birth of Christ. ² Indeed not too long after the introduction of organized gambling, India became one of the first governments to regulate it. ³ During the American colonial period, in fact, colonial governments wanting to mitigate their taxation of the colonists turned to state-sponsored lotteries as a more popular alternative for generating revenue. ⁴ With a long and varied history, it should come as no surprise that gambling regulation has evolved over time in response to government enforcement efforts. Most people, I suspect, would be surprised to discover that not too long ago among the images aroused on the subject of gambling and state efforts to regulate its use included pinball machines. Pinball machines once played such a prominent role in gambling that at one time they were a steady source of income for organized crime. ⁵ The prospect of regulating pinball machines through anti-gambling laws arose in the courts as local law enforcement officials brought actions against local business owners who housed pinball machines that officials believed were used for gambling. ⁶

Beginning around the time of World War II and prior to legislative rulemaking, some courts, persuaded by local law enforcement, began to hold that pinball machines fell ...

At the top of my want list: a Bingo Pinball Machine

As a teenager, I played a lot of pinball. But it wasn't necessarily the type of game that probably comes to mind when you hear the word 'pinball'.

The games that dominated the bars and hangouts where I grew up were what are commonly known as Bingo Pinball machines.

There were no buttons on the sides of the cabinet to push to activate the flippers. The machine didn't rack up your score every time it hit a bumper or target or slot or whatever. These machines were much simpler. And much, much more complicated.

The playing field of these machines consisted of a flat surface with round holes into which the pinballs would drop. Each hole was numbered, 1 through 25. Strategically placed near these holes were pins or slender bumpers, off which the balls would carom. The center hole, the 16-hole, always had the pin set directly above it, making it extremely difficult to slide a descending ball into it. Thus, it was the hardest number to hit and was nearly always used as the center square in the electronic bingo card. The anti-Paul Lynde, if you will. (For all you youngsters out there: obscure Hollywood Squares reference)

All the "action" for these machines came from the pin bumpers and the rebound rubber along the perimeter of the playing field. No flippers, no large mechanical bumpers that propelled the balls with increased velocity. Thus, a player was prone to banging on the machine to get a little oomph on the ball or to get it to go in a certain direction. Bang on the machines too hard and, ooooops, TILT! Game over.

Bingo Pinball machines were hugely popular in certain geographical pockets of the U.S but were completely unavailable in other parts of the country. You see, the primary reason for these machines, no matter what anyone might preach to you about entertainment value, was for gambling purposes.

These machines displayed odds for aligning 3, 4 or 5 balls in a row on the Bingo Card-like backglass display, paying off in replays (free games), normally at 2-1 for 3 in a row, 4-1 for 4 in a row and 20-1 for 5 in a row. The normal play price back in my day was 5¢ for 6 balls. The payoffs didn't come until you'd accumulated at least 20 replays (20 X 5¢ = $1.00). At any point after accumulating 20 or more replays, you'd march over to the friendly neighborhood bartender/proprietor and ask for a cash-out. He'd inspect the machine, calculate your winnings, pay you the money and re-set the machine to zero. Simple transaction. Illegal in all but 2 states (more on that later).

The thing that made these games interesting was the fact that you could add more coins or apply more replays that you'd won in hopes of increasing your odds. Normally, the odds increased exponentially. A typical 3-in-line payout on an early machine with ten odds steps would be:
2 4 6 8 12 16 24 32 48 64. However, simply adding money or replays was no guarantee that you'd get a step increase. Sometimes you'd need to add 5 or 6 coins just to get from 2-1 to 6-1 odds; sometimes 3 would do it. You just never knew. Frustrating, but fun.

Also, inserting additional coins on some machines gave a player the opportunity to unlock "hidden" bingo cards, most of which had the pesky #16 moved from the center square, thus making it a little easier to achieve 4 or 5 numbers in a row. In some games, extra coins (or replays) activated colored sections on the bingo cards, sections of yellow, blue, red, green that were irregularly shaped, allowing more opportunities to win with better payoffs. For example, 3 numbers in a red L-shaped grouping would usually pay as much as the 4-in-a-row on the regular bingo field.

The variations that could be achieved by inserting more coins into these machines are too numerous to mention here but a great reference site for All Things Bingo Pinball can be seen here.

Most everyone I hung out with as a "kid" . . . and by "kid" I mean 16 or 17 yr old and by that I mean, yes, I was hanging out in places I shouldn't have been but I've never looked my age; I was buying liquor for 20 yr olds when I was 17; didn't get carded until I was 27 -- coulda kissed that woman . . . anyway, we loved these games and played them semi-religiously. So pervasive in my world were these machines that I had no idea that there were other types of pinball games with flippers and advancing scores until I went to college and stepped up to a pinball machine at a bar in the Sunnyside section of Morgantown, WV and was amazed to find that there were no round holes in the playing surface of the machine. What the hell was this? Flippers? I mean, if I'd seen one of these machines before, I'd paid it no heed; where was the payoff, eh?

Eventually, gaming commissions and local law enforcement had their way and these machines disappeared or, at worst, became well-hidden in backrooms and private clubs. With the growth of the flipper pinball industry in the 70s, these machines all but disappeared. The last new design of Bingo Pinball machine was produced in 1979. The manufacture of these machines continued into the early 80s but eventually they went the way of the wind-up Victrola.

I've been trying to locate one of these old machines for awhile now and haven't had much luck. By that, I don't mean that I can't find them for sale. They're out there. But none I've found are relatively close to south Texas meaning extremely high freight rates to have them shipped here. In fact, some of the places where I've located them won't even consider shipping them via motor freight; it's 'will call' only. And the prices range from the

sublime (for non-working machines) to the ridiculous (for rare machines or ones in 'perfect' condition).

Most of the machines I've located are in Tennessee, North Carolina or South Carolina. This is understandable because TN and SC were 2 states in the nation that did not 'honor' the Supreme Court 1957 Korpan ruling that essentially outlawed these machines. Pennsylvania is also a good source. But all these states are the equivalent of $500-600 in shipping and crating charges away from south Texas.

So . . . if anyone out there in worldwidefreakingwebland has a line on a decent, WORKING Bingo Pinball game (I haven't the patience for soldering guns and schematics) that isn't gonna make me re-mortgage the homestead and isn't gonna require a two-day road trip to pick it up, drop me a line. I'd sure like to have one of these puppies.

Posted by Marimba at 31.3.10

ATEI 2002 – Earls Court London

These Golden Gate games were from Seeben/Sirmo Games.

ATTENTION SOUTHERN OPERATORS: WE HAVE FIFTEEN OF THESE THINGS! These can still be found to this day quietly earning money at truck stops all over the country.

We're clearing out some space and are selling some coin-operated equipment from the bowels of our warehouse.

We have here a Bally High Flyer 6-Card Bingo Pinball Machine with an electronic digital upgrade. This upgrade greatly increases the reliability of the machines while at the same time offers the flexibility from an operator's standpoint.

Back in the day, these kits STARTED at $3500, and to get an already converted Bingo could run upwards of $5000 delivered. If you know what this is, you know what this is.

I really enjoy the crazy Alaskan Bush Pilot motif of this machine, I think the guy on Yukon Men has the same yellow airplane featured on this machine. Reminds me of Wisconsin in the fall. Or when the dirtbag TSA guy at Rheinlander felt me up to see if I was a terrorist. Phooey.

Thank you for looking!

Australia bingo

Being sold on the Collectors ABC website in Perth

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PINBALL MACHINE - 5053 uploaded 14 February 2007

BALLY BALI BINGO PINBALL MACHINE.
Bally Bali Bingo Pinball machine
Made by Bally Manufacuring Corporation, 2640 Belmont Avenue, Chicago, Illinois,60618, U.S.A. in 1974.
In top working condition, I even have the original Maintenance hand book
along with the original wiring diagrams / layouts.

Just wondering if you could tell me what it would be worth now?

Your Comments:

Is this Bingo pinball for sale

from Con, NSW

posted 22:25:55 25 Jun, 2007 EST

about 2500 dollars if in good condition

from stefan, NSW

posted 11:44:51 09 Jun, 2007 EST

Hang on where is this machine i think i want it .I played these things in the 70`s as a sixteen year old they where illegal why are they not here anymore ,much better than pokies

from stefan, NSW

posted 11:52:37 09 Jun, 2007 EST

Australia hunting

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers?keyword=pinball

B-I-N-G-O GAMBLING DEVICES

NCJ Number

59987

Journal

FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Volume: 48 Issue: 4 Dated: (APRIL 1979) Pages: 16-21

Author(s)

R M FURGERSON

Date Published

1979

Length

6 pages

Annotation

DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN LEGITIMATE PINBALL MACHINES AND MULTIPLE-COIN ELECTROMAGNETIC BINGO MACHINES, WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO THE FEDERAL GAMBLING DEVICE TAX, ARE DESCRIBED FOR POLICE OFFICERS.

Abstract

ALTHOUGH FREE REPLAY FEATURES OF PINBALL MACHINES HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED AS LEGAL BY STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS, BINGO MACHINES' MORE EXTENSIVE RELIANCE ON FREE REPLAYS HAS BEEN DEFINED AS GAMBLING. THERE ARE ABOUT 70 MODELS OF BINGO MACHINES. ALL ARE DESIGNED TO CLOSELY RESEMBLE PINBALL MACHINES SUPERFICIALLY, BUT DO NOT LOOK, FEEL, OR SOUND THE SAME. PART OF THE MACHINE'S GAME IS SIMILAR TO THAT OF REGULAR BINGO. IN ADDITION THE NUMBER OF FREE REPLAYS TO BE WON RANGES FROM 4 TO 600. CERTAIN MODES OF WINNING AND GAME ADVANTAGES INCREASE A PLAYER'S CHANCES OF SUCCESS. THE BINGO MACHINE'S MAIN DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC IS THAT IT IS A MULTIPLE-COIN MACHINE, ALTHOUGH IT IS POSSIBLE, BUT UNLIKELY, FOR A PLAYER TO PLAY A COMPLETE GAME WITH A SINGLE COIN. THE MACHINE HAS INTERNAL CHANCE SELECTION CIRCUITS, ACTIVATED BY ADDITION OF COINS, WHICH ARE OUTSIDE THE PLAYER'S CONTROL. A BUILT-IN GOVERNOR AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTS THE CHANCES OF OBTAINING GREATER SCORES, BUT OPERATES ONLY AS COINS ARE ADDED. BINGO MACHINES, IN CONTRAST TO PINBALL MACHINES, ARE RELATIVELY QUIET DURING PLAY. THE FBI LABORATORY CAN ASSIST LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN CONSULTATION, EXAMINING EVIDENCE, AND PROVIDING EXPERT WITNESS TESTIMONY ON BINGO MACHINES. ILLUSTRATIONS, A DETAILED CHART LISTING COMPARATIVE FEATURES OF PINBALL MACHINES AND BINGO MACHINES, AND FOOTNOTES WITH REFERENCES ARE INCLUDED. (CFW)

Corporate Author

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Address

J.Edgar Hoover Building, 9th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20535-0001, United States

Sale Source

National Institute of Justice/

Address

Box 6000, Dept F, Rockville, MD 20849, United States

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Baby lite a line

‘Baby Lite-A-Line’
Image Title: Billboard Magazine Ad

Image #26598, Image Courtesy of John Gray

The Billboard (Magazine), May-25-1935, page 89

Ballerina Bingo by Bally 1959

Bally made 750 of these Ballerina Bingo Pinball Machines.

Information from a Ballerina Bingo flyer:

• New Top-Row feature is a top money-maker
• Tow row holes may be played as 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 or 7-6-5-4-3-2-1
• New 2-way Magic (Magic screen feature advance by coin play or by roll-overs)
• In-line scores, section scores, super-scores
• Triple-deck advancing scores
• Extra time, extra balls
• All the profit proved play appeal of Sea Island.
• Plus new Top-Row feature for maximum score-juggling flexibility.
• Plus new 20Way Magic for maximum Magic-Screen Advance.
• Ballerina offers players the greatest array of attractions ever built into a pinball game.
• Unequaled earning power for operators.

The back glass is framed by a red curtain reminiscent of a theater.  The pulled-back curtain reveals a beach with several ballerina's dancing.  A lake is seen in the background with sail boats enjoying the water.  A few white doves are flying in the sky.  Very colorful.

Hopper Related

Ballerina (bingo), 1959 Bally: $1000
This machine works great and has a payout hopper added. Was used in casinos in Reno, NV. The metal legs were replaced with wooden case type legs to support the hopper for the nickels. It's the old bingo style machine with no flippers and payout is determined by where the balls land and the bingo card up on the screen, which switches automatically. This is a great machine and a blast at parties and gatherings. It would also make an excellent addition to any collection. I just don't have room for it in my new, one bedroom apartment. You arrange for shipping.
Greg
Palmdale, California, Northern Los Angeles County

Posted: 18 August 2007

Bally and Sega connection

From Wikipedia,

In the same year, 1982, Sega was hit hard by the American video game crash. Hemorrhaging money, Gulf+Western sold the U.S. assets of Sega to famous pinball manufacturer Bally Manufacturing Corporation. The Japanese assets of Sega were purchased for $38 million by a group of investors led by Rosen and Hayao Nakayama, a Japanese businessman who owned a distribution company that had been acquired by Rosen in 1979. Nakayama became the new CEO of Sega, and Rosen became head of its subsidiary in the United States.

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Offered up for auction is a vintage bally bikini bingo pinball machine, model 674, circa 1961. It measures 56" wide x 28" wide x 73" high which includes the legs. There is a number of 1684 on the top of the playing surface and A2335 on the upper right side. I have plugged this in depositied a nickel and, it lights up and works. It comes with the keys. Overall in very good condtion. It does appear to work fine but it may require some work as I have done noting to it

Bally clean up

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Bally mobbed controlled

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Hi Danny,

Here's an interesting link you may already have, but I think it is worth bringing to your attention just in case. This was a state of Washington case law opinion on the legality of bingos. Besides going to great detail in describing the games, there are references to other cases in other jurisdictions which may be interesting to pursue as well.

http://www.wa.gov/ago/opinions/1969/opinion_1969_009.html

By the way, speaking of the law and legal filings, from the late 70's until the mid 80's I worked at Standard and Poor's. I used to read annual reports and other distributions to shareholders of companies I followed all day long. One of them was Bally. Form 10K, filed annually with the Securities and Exchange Commission, was always good entertainment when it came to Bally. I remember reading about how much money they made from selling the bingos, and, if I recall correctly, how many units were sold. This was in the description of the company in the Items at the front of the 10K, not in the financial statements. These documents always referred to the bingos as "in-line" machines. I never saw the company use the word bingo.

Regards,

Phil Bogema

(Writing at work - kind of a slow day)

Ballymade

Hi Danny

I have a county fair with the serial no A2288, from Wolverhampton in the UK my picture is on the locations screen on this site.

Your welcome to use my details/picture if you wish.

Hope this helps, all the best

Len (Ballymad)

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There is a problem with the older bingos as far as the stepper units go. If the machine were truly in the box, I would think that a lot of the dust and dirt that is so common when they sit around in a warehouse for years wouldn't be there. If all of that grime is here, the steppers would all need to be disassembled and cleaned. I haven't contacted the seller, but if the machine were stored here in Colorado, it would hold up pretty well because the humidity is low. The biggest worries on an old bingo are the clutches and the motors. You would most certainly need to lubricate the clutches and to do that correctly requires a lot of work. I would think the motors would still be okay, but if the grease has hardened you would need to disassemble and repack them. The NIB Silver Sails on ebay from late 1999 went to a buyer in Washington state and he had no trouble getting in set up and running well. I guess this Twist would be no different.

Phil

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Bingo

Wat is een bingo?
Een bingo is een gokautomaat die lijkt op een flipper. Een bingo heeft echter geen flippers. In het speelveld zijn er enkel 26 gaten waarin de ballen vallen. Een bingo bevat een aantal ballen die met een mechanisme (trekker) in het speelveld gebracht worden. Het speelveld bevat 26 gaten waarin de ballen vallen.
Deze gaten zijn genummerd van 1 t.e.m. 25. Een bal die in het 26ste gat valt, wordt opnieuw in het spel gebracht (ball return).

Doel van het spel?
In de kop zijn verschillende kaarten beschikbaar waarin de getallen 1 t.e.m. 25 staan in een raster van 5 x 5. Als een bal in een genummerd gat van het speelveld valt, gaan in de kaarten van de kop de overeenkomstige getallen oplichten. Het doel van het spel is om minimum drie en maximum vijf getallen in een rij te laten oplichten.

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Man’s Bingo Pinball Machines Attract Worldwide Interest

It began with one bingo pinball machine Butch Glauda got when he was a teenager.

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Nov. 20, 2021, at 3:01 a.m.

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By CHRISTINE LEE, (Pottsville) Republican-Herald

POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — It began with one bingo pinball machine Butch Glauda got when he was a teenager. “My uncle (Michael Joseph) bought me my first one when I was 17,” he said. Glauda, 81, got the Yacht Club bingo pinball machine — built between 1954 and 1955 — in 1957. Today, the Pottsville resident has more than 300 bingo pinball machines, the largest collection in the country. The oldest of the machines was made in 1951, the year the two main manufacturers, Bally and United, began making them. They were purchased from private owners and large bingo pinball machine operators. “It took my whole life to get what we have,” Glauda said. At one time, Glauda said he had more than 400 machines. However, over the years, he has sold some of them. That allowed him to get parts for the bingo pinball machines he still has. It also freed up space. “I was running out of room,” Glauda said. He collected the machines as a side project while working as a crane operator at the former Bethlehem Steel, as well as a substitute police officer and cab driver. Glauda and his son, Mike Glauda, hope to show the public the machines by opening a museum at 530 and 532 S. Centre St. in Pottsville. The museum would be housed in two buildings, one at 530 S. Centre St. and a second that will be constructed at 532 S. Centre St. Unlike the traditional pinball machines, bingo pinball machines don’t have flippers on the side. Instead, users put a coin in the machine, press the plunger and the ball lands into a numbered pocket, or hole, on the machine board. An electronic number on a corresponding board on the backglass scoring area lights up when the ball lands in the pocket. A monetary prize is awarded if a user gets five numbers in a row, with proceeds paid out to the owner. Because the machines were considered a form of gambling, they were often deemed illegal and taken by law enforcement. The last time a bingo pinball machine was made was in 1988. Glauda has become well known in the world of bingo pinball machine enthusiasts. Over the years, he has displayed them at shows across the country and in Canada, where he has earned the nickname “Bingo Butch.” He said they have garnered interest from people in countries around the world, such as Sweden and Australia, and the collection is featured in books on bingo pinball machines by Jeffrey Lawton. Many people have said they want to see them in person, with someone saying they would be willing to come all the way from the Land Down Under to see the collection, according to Glauda’s son, Mike.

“People that were talking to us were saying, ‘You should have a museum,’ ” Butch Glauda said. “It will show them this actually exists.” Lawton also had a hand in inspiring them to plan the museum. Mike Glauda said Lawton was astonished at his father’s collection. Butch Glauda provided the information for Lawton’s books, “The Bingo Pinball War: United vs Bally, 1951-1957,” published in 2010, and “Bally Bingo Pinball Machines,” published in 1999. “The only person that had what he needed for his book, photographs of a real machine, was my father,” Mike Glauda said. The machines have gained so much interest from people around the country and the world that Mike and Butch Glauda started a Facebook group, “Bally/United Bingo by Bingo Butch,” in 2019. As of Monday, it had more than 500 members. “People from around the world ask us questions and we try to help them out the best we can,” Mike Glauda said. While they know of 10 museums nationwide devoted to traditional pinball machines, there are none for bingo pinball machines. “It’s so hard to get them as a lot of these were destroyed and can’t be replaced,” Butch Glauda said. “Old guys, like me, that played them when they were younger, they get a kick out of them.” Mike Glauda, who has been fixing the machines since he was a teen, said trying to wrap his head around what his dad has done isn’t easy. “For me to fathom what my father has accomplished is very hard,” he said. Starting a collection isn’t easy, Butch Glauda said, as many of the machines aren’t available. Both Bally and United stopped making them in 1978. The Glaudas appeared at a recent Pottsville City Council meeting to ask the governing body to approve the museum plans. City officials told them the buildings have to abide by city code and a museum needs the approval of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Mike Glauda said their attorney, Frank Corry, Pottsville, is working with the commission to be recognized as a museum. Butch Glauda said a museum would allow the public to see the machines for themselves. “They can see it for real,” Glauda said. “Not only see it, but play it.”

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3 HIER KAN U DE MEEST RECENTE EDITIES PER TITEL DIGITAAL DOORBLADEREN: CAMPAGNES.EVOLUTIONMEDIAGROUP.BE/EVOLUTION EDITO CAFÉ & BISTRO is een realisatie van EVOLUTION MEDIA GROUP, Vlasstraat 17 B-8710 Wielsbeke t: f: > ABONNEMENTEN jaarabonnement: 30,- buitenland: 50,- losse nummers: 2,50 De abonnementen kunnen maandelijks onderschreven worden door overschrijving op ING > UITGEVER Piet Desmyter Tel > HOOFDREDACTEUR Geert Van Lierde Tel Fax > MEDEWERKERS Daniël Steevens, Jos Verhoogen, Peter Van Oyen > PUBLICITEITSREGIE Evolution Media Regie Tel Fax Cis Engels GSM: Michèle Grassi GSM: Annick Bauwens GSM: GEERT VAN LIERDE Hoofdredacteur Unesco heeft de Belgische biercultuur erkend als immaterieel cultureel erfgoed. Vanuit diverse hoeken werd opgeworpen dat bier geen exclusief Belgisch product is en dat andere landen even goed bierlanden zijn. Opmerkingen die alleen maar bewijzen dat men niet heeft gelezen waarover het gaat. Biercultuur is zoveel meer dan het louter materiële product in al zijn verscheidenheid. Het handelt even goed over cafés, de verscheidenheid aan glazen, de wijze van tappen en schenken, waardevolle opleidingstrajecten, bier en gastronomie, enz. Bier is slechts één element daarin, de beleving eromheen creëert de biercultuur. Die mondiale erkentelijkheid moet evenwel een signaal zijn om ons even te laten stilstaan bij de alledaagse realiteit. Wij kijken aan tegen een cafépatrimonium dat vermindert en een nieuwe adem zoekt. Sommigen hypen kinky-beers met de meest waanzinnige grondstoffen of extreme karakteristieken zonder enig kwaliteitsbesef. Wereldwijd rukken belgian styles op en worden imitaties en pogingen daartoe verheerlijkt als Belgische creativiteit. Tal van bierproefwedstrijden gaan daarin niet zelden schaamteloos mee en diverse awards met betrekking tot de Belgische bier- en cafécultuur zijn amper geloofwaardig. Laat de Unesco-erkenning een startschot zijn om angstvallig te waken over de kwaliteit van onze bieren. Laat het de aanleiding zijn om ons internationaal te positioneren met brewed and bottled in Belgium om de eerlijke authenticiteit te versterken. Laat het een sein zijn om ons cafépatrimonium te herwaarderen, om in te zetten op een professionele en hoogstaande beleving van een biercultuur die collectief wordt gedragen en die niet wordt herleid tot onwaarschijnlijk en louter individueel opportunisme. Laat ons verder bouwen aan een biercultuur die een nieuwe horizon moet opzoeken, geconfronteerd met tal van nieuwe, maatschappelijke uitdagingen. > LAY OUT & DRUK Oranje, Wielsbeke, > OPLAGE ex. > VERSPREIDING ex. > SPREIDING Cafés, tavernes, dancings, bars, brasseries, nachtclubs, bierhandelaars, brouwerijen VU: Piet Desmyter Vlasstraat 17 B-8710 Wielsbeke Coverfoto: Jos Verhoogen Overname, zelfs gedeeltelijk van artikels en publicitaire projecten, is voorbehouden aan het copyright van het tijdschrift. Elke medewerker is verantwoordelijk voor zijn bijdrage. INHOUD 4 NIEUWS Drie op vier caféhouders wil in horeca blijven 5 Unesco-erkenning voor Belgische biercultuur 8 Ichtegems opnieuw bekend maken in eigen streek 10 Febed verzamelt representatieve info van drankenhandel 20 Consumenten willen mineraalwater in plaats van tapwater 14 DOSSIER Bingo s en slotmachines zijn belangrijk voor cafésector 16 Geselecteerde horeca-zaken tappen pils uit de tank 21 IN DE KIJKER Leroy Breweries focust op passie en vakmanschap 22 BIEREN Brasserie du Bocq en brouwerij Keersmaekers zetten in op synergie > EDITION FRANÇAISE SUR DEMANDE. VIP PARTNERS Uw drankenspecialist CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL

4 NEWS Drie op vier wil in de horeca blijven CAFÉHOUDERS SOCIAAL TEVREDEN, ADMINISTRATIEF EN FINANCIEEL ONTEVREDEN GEERT VAN LIERDE Ruim driekwart van de Belgische caféhouders wil actief blijven in de sector en kijkt zelfs optimistisch naar De helft daarvan is zelfs zeer tevreden over zijn job, zo blijkt uit onderzoek van Brouwerij Haacht. Een opvallende conclusie, gezien de steeds strengere regels en normen die de overheid oplegt. Jos Verhoogen De witte kassa, het rookverbod, allerlei hygiëne- en veiligheidsvoorschriften, allerhande onheilsberichten over de hoge werkdruk, de financiële leefbaarheid en het toenemend aantal faillissementen verschijnen de laatste maanden voortdurend in de media. Tegen die achtergrond zijn de resultaten van het onderzoek dat Brouwerij Haacht liet uitvoeren zonder meer opzienbarend. Onderzoeksbureau Datastories peilde bij 418 Belgische caféhouders naar hun visie op de sector en hun relatie met de brouwerijen. De caféhouders werden niet alleen schriftelijk, telefonisch en online ondervraagd, zij namen ook deel aan groepsgesprekken. 72% van de ondervraagde caféhouders toonde zich tevreden; 43% was eerder tevreden, 29% was zelfs zeer tevreden in zijn job. Slechts 9% was eerder ontevreden, 2% zeer ontevreden. De voornaamste reden voor de hoge tevredenheid van caféhouders blijkt het contact met de klant. Maar liefst 96% van de ondernemers ervaart dat contact als heel (59 %) of eerder positief (37 %). Ontevreden zijn ze dan weer vooral over hun inkomen. 35% vindt dat zeer of eerder onvoldoende. Over het administratief contact met de overheid is amper 22% positief. Opvallend is de hoge tevredenheid ondanks de hoge werkdruk in de horeca. 76% presteert meer uren dan een arbeider of bediende in een normale werkweek. 50% zegt zelfs bijna het dubbele te werken met 70 uren of meer per week. Optimistisch voor 2017 Die tevredenheid straalt af op de toekomstverwachtingen van de caféhouders. 76% zegt optimistisch te zijn over de toekomst en exact hetzelfde percentage wil graag actief blijven in de sector. 35% verwacht zelfs dat zijn zaak dit jaar zal groeien, tegenover 25 % die een achteruitgang voorspelt. Ondanks alle uitdagingen die de horeca de afgelopen jaren voor de voeten zijn geworpen, zien we een heel positieve stroom onder onze uitbaters, zegt Boudewijn van der Kelen, marketing directeur bij Brouwerij Haacht. De sector gaat ook heel creatief om met die uitdagingen, dat bewijzen de vele nieuwe concepten die uitbaters ons voorleggen en waarvan we de uitwerking met plezier en fierheid ondersteunen. Bij Brouwerij Haacht praten we al lang niet meer over cafébazen, maar over echte horeca-ondernemers. We hopen dat die term ook in de sector en de maatschappij weerklank krijgt. Want hoe belangrijk een perfect pintje tappen ook is, een café runnen is tegenwoordig zoveel meer dan dat. Daarom focussen wij in onze horeca-opleiding ook heel sterk op diverse aspecten van management. www Pintje drinken met vrienden is gezond Regelmatig een pintje drinken met je vrienden is goed voor je gezondheid. Het sociale aspect in combinatie met een glaasje zorgt ervoor dat je stressniveau daalt, je welzijn erop vooruit gaat en je meer tevreden bent met je leven, zo blijkt uit een onderzoek van Oxford University. Het sociale aspect van een drankje doen met vrienden zorgt ervoor dat we ons gelukkiger voelen, wat ons algemeen welzijn ten goede komt. Daarnaast verlaagt het ons stressniveau, waardoor de kans op stress gerelateerde gezondheidsproblemen ingeperkt wordt. Voorwaarde is wel dat jouw vrienden erbij zijn. Op je eentje iets bestellen op café is niet voldoende, aldus de wetenschappers. Onze sociale netwerken zijn één van de belangrijkste buffers tegen mentale en fysieke gezondheidsproblemen, aldus professor Robin Dunbar van het departement psychologie van Oxford University. Cafés hebben traditioneel de rol van een plek waar gemeenschappen samen komen om te socializen. Daarnaast speelt een matige alcoholconsumptie een rol omdat die de aanmaak van endorfine stimuleert en zo helpt om sociale relaties te versterken. Net zoals andere complexe systemen die sociale relaties versterken - zingen, dansen, verhalen vertalen - wordt het vaak door grote sociale gemeenschappen gebruikt als een ritueel om banden te versterken. Verder ontdekten Dunbar en zijn team dat regelmatige cafégangers vaker sociaal geëngageerd zijn en meer vrienden hebben - gemiddeld acht goede vrienden in vergelijking met de zes die niet-cafégangers gemiddeld hebben. 4 CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL 2017

5 NEWS MONDIAAL EERBETOON Unesco erkent Belgische biercultuur GEERT VAN LIERDE De Belgische biercultuur werd tijdens de Unesco-vergadering van 30 november in Addis Abeba officieel erkend als immaterieel cultureel werelderfgoed. De erkenning door Unesco betekent een belangrijke morele opsteker voor de biercultuur in ons land en een beloning voor al wie zich in België inzet om deze rijke cultuur levendig te houden. Na de Franse gastronomie (2010) en de Mediterrane keuken (2013) is de Belgische biercultuur de derde grote gastronomische cultuurbeweging die door de Unesco-werelderfgoedorganisatie wordt erkend als immaterieel cultureel erfgoed. Daarmee worden de historische creativiteit en het vakmanschap van de Belgische brouwers, de verankering van bier in het dagelijkse leven en in onze cultuur evenals de groeiende waardering voor de meer dan Belgische bieren op mondiaal vlak geëerd. Immaterieel cultureel erfgoed omvat alle tradities, gebruiken, gewoonten en technieken die we vandaag koesteren en willen doorgeven aan de volgende generaties, en die uiting geven aan een culturele identiteit en diversiteit, aldus Unesco. De biercultuur in België vormt immers een traditie die sinds mensenheugenis en tot op vandaag in heel het land beleefd wordt. Bier heeft in België in al zijn diversiteit een plaats verworven in cafés, in de woonkamer, bij feesten en evenementen, in de gastronomie en op zoveel andere plekken. De biercultuur maakt dus deel uit van de identiteit en het cultureel erfgoed van heel het land. boek Initiatiefnemer Sven Gatz (als toenmalige directeur van de Belgische Brouwers en nu Vlaams minister voor Cultuur) heft samen met vertegenwoordigers van de Duitstalige en Franstalige Gemeenschap en met Jean- Louis Van der Perre (Belgische Brouwers) het glas op de Unesco-erkenning. vendien één van de weinige die door de strenge selectieprocedure geraakten. Het zijn vooral de talrijke maatregelen, door verscheidene organisaties en instellingen die een garantie bieden dat de biercultuur ook op lange termijn blijft bestaan, die de Unesco ertoe hebben aangezet om de biercultuur in België te erkennen. In haar beslissing werd uitdrukkelijk verwezen naar het feit dat de biercultuur zich steeds weer aanpast aan een veranderende maatschappij en dat de nodige maatregelen genomen worden om overmatig alcoholgebruik te bestrijden. Strenge selectieprocedure De Duitstalige Gemeenschap diende de aanvraag in bij Unesco, nadat eerder al de Vlaamse en Franstalige Gemeenschap de biercultuur hadden ingeschreven op hun lijst van immaterieel erfgoed. Het dossier kwam tot stand met de steun van de brouwersorganisaties, bierproeversverenigingen, bierpromotoren, gespecialiseerde nietgouvernementele organisaties en opleidingsinstituten. De evaluatie van het dossier nam anderhalf jaar in beslag. Het dossier was bowww.belgianbrewers.be, Event www Zythos BierFestival. Op 22 en 23 april geven bierliefhebbers opnieuw rendez-vous op het veertiende Zythos Bierfestival in de Brabanthal te Leuven. Op café in Vlaanderen Op café in Vlaanderen van Sofie Vanrafelghem positioneert zich als een cafégids waarin de auteur naar eigen zeggen de 200 beste cafés in Vlaanderen presenteert. Bier, het aanbod en de wijze waarop het wordt gepresenteerd, werdenb als uitgangspunt genomen. Naast bekende bierspecialiteitencafés die in vrijwel alle bierboeken opduiken vind je hierin ook wat occasioneel geopende proeflokalen van kleine brouwerijen. Cafés worden oppervlakkig beschreven waarbij de korte bijdragen nauwelijks verschillen van wat je elders kan lezen. Per café wordt een bier besproken en krijg je een toeristische tip. Honderden kleurenfoto s vullen de pagina s op. Met meer dan 400 pagina s, een onhandig formaat van 24x24 cm en een gewicht van 1,9 kg. is Op café in Vlaanderen eerder een kijkboek om op een tafel te leggen dan wel een handige gids om ermee op uit te trekken. Op café in Vlaanderen, Lannoo, Tielt, 424 pagina s, 24,99 euro Event Toer de Geuze. Voor de 11de editie van de Toer de Geuze openen de leden van Horal op 6 en 7 mei hun deuren. De toegang tot de deelnemende brouwerijen en stekerijen is overal gratis. Je kan de Toer de Geuze met eigen vervoer doen of je kan ook een plaats reserveren op een van de autocars die Horal inlegt Miljard pintjes van AB-Inbev of 175 vrachtwagens en 185 containers per dag worden vanuit Antwerpen wereldwijd verscheept. Daarmee is Antwerpen de grootste bierterminal ter wereld. CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL

6 NEWS STOKERIJ VDS EN HEEREN VAN LIEDEKERCKE CREËREN HEERENGIN Gin voor bier- en ginliefhebbers GEERT VAN LIERDE Met HeerenGin lanceren De Heeren van Liedekercke en de Aalsterse stokerij VdS een unieke premium gin die bier- en ginliefhebbers aanspreekt. Daarvoor werd een blend gemaakt van de huisbieren Heerenbier en Sodalitas die vervolgens werd verrijkt met kruiden uit de gruit-mengelingen van weleer. Hopjenever of -gin, bierbrandewijn, bierschnaps, whisky en eau de vie op basis van bier staan hier en daar al wel op de kaart of in het drankenrek. Inspelend op het succes van gin wilden wij een echte biergin creëren, zegt Joost De Four. In samenspraak met stokerij VdS uit Aalst hebben wij een aantal proef-distillaten laten maken op basis van onze huisbieren Heerenbier (8 vol.%) en Sodalitas (6,5 vol.%). Hoewel beide bieren een mooi distillaat opleverden, hebben wij gekozen voor een blend van beide bieren. Die hebben wij vervolgens verrijkt met kruiden die oorspronkelijk werden gebruikt bij het brouwen van bier, zoals jeneverbes, rozemarijn, koreander, hop, peper, kardemon,. Ook Luc Waterschoot - die stokerij VdS in 2001 overnam en twee jaar later ook Cockney s Distillery uit Gent integreerde - was meteen gewonnen voor het project. Stokerij VdS is gespecialiseerd in kwalitatieve streekproducten zoals jenevers, likeuren en aperitieven, private labels en co-creaties met internationale klanten die gecharmeerd zijn door de kwaliteit van onze Belgische distillaten. Onze Belgische jenevers zijn immers de voorlopers van de gin. Sinds de wereldwijde belangstelling voor ambachtelijke, kwalitatieve premium gins neemt de vraag ernaar toe. We kiezen enkel voor projecten met een authentiek verhaal waarin wij iets kwalitatief en uniek kunnen creëren. Recent hebben wij Cockney s gin een premium-upgrade gegeven en hebben wij met Belgin een gamma premium gins ontwikkeld met typisch Belgische grondstoffen zoals verse hop uit onze (Belgin Fresh Hop), met verse kruiden uit de abdijtuinen (Belgin St Cruyt) en met verse Belgische frambozen (Belgin Raspberry). Die initiatieven hebben ons al zilveren en gouden medailles opgeleverd op internationale concours in San Francisco, Mexico, Londen en Las Vegas. Het project met de Heeren Van Liedekercke heeft ons vanaf het begin geboeid, stelt Luc Waterschoot. Het is een authentiek verhaal met een professionele partner die duidelijk weet wat hij wenst. De eerste distillaten van zowel Sodalitas als Heerenbier waren heel smaakvol en veelbelovend om er een unieke premium gin van te maken. Na toevoeging van kruiden die typisch gebruikt worden tijdens het brouwproces zijn we tot een mooi, evenwichtig eindproduct gekomen met een subtiele, frisse citrustoets. De HeerenGin is met zijn 43 vol.% iets sterker dan de meeste gins en wordt gebotteld in een kubusvormige 0,5-l.-fles. De HeerenGin wordt regionaal aangeboden maar ook beschikbaar gesteld voor bierspeciaalzaken en restaurants die een originele biergin op de kaart willen plaatsen. Het team van De Heeren van Liedekercke samen met Luc Waterschoot van Stokerij VdS bij de voorstelling van de originele HeerenGin-biergin. www Quote Voor mensen die niet verslaafd zijn ben ik er niet zeker van dat er een meetbaar effect is van een maand geen alcohol drinken. Ze voelen zich wel beter en gezonder maar het is niet te bewijzen dat het komt door geen alcohol te drinken. Wanneer je matig alcohol drinkt onder vrienden of na een sportwedstrijd dan voel je verbondenheid, een goed gevoel. Als dat een klein beetje gestimuleerd wordt door alcohol wat kan daar dan op tegen zijn. Jan Tytgat, toxicoloog KU Leuven op Rob-TV Miljard euro betaalde het Japanse Asahi aan AB Inbev voor de overname van diens Oost-Europese merken waaronder het legendarische Pilsner Urquell. Asahi nam eerder al Peroni uit Italië en Grolsch uit Nederland uit de portefeuille van SABMiller over voor 2,6 miljard euro Belgen hadden zich einde januari al ingeschreven op Tournée Minerale, een campagne van VAD/De DrugLijn en Stichting tegen Kanker om in februari 2017 een maand lang geen alcohol te drinken. 6 CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL 2017

NEWS ICHTEGEMS TERUG BEKEND MAKEN IN EIGEN STREEK Strubbe bij Belgian Family Brewers GEERT VAN LIERDE Brouwerij Strubbe uit Ichtegem maakt sinds kort deel uit van Belgian Family Brewers, dat twintig familiale brouwerijen groepeert. In eigen land is Strubbe vooral bekend om de Oostendse Keyte-bieren, in het buitenland wordt Marc Strubbe geprezen voor zijn pilsbier, Ichtegem s Oud Bruin en Ichtegems Grand Cru. Nu komt het erop aan om die roodbruine bieren ook in de eigen streek opnieuw bekend te maken. In 1830 ruilde Carolus Strubbe zijn thuisstad Tielt in voor Ichtegem. Tijdens de zomer werkte hij op het veld, s winters vond je hem als brouwer op de moutvloer. Zeven generaties later, staat de familie Strubbe nog altijd stevig aan het roer van hun brouwerij. Marc Strubbe wordt bijgestaan door zijn neef Stefan terwijl ook zoon Stefan al volop meedraait in de familiebrouwerij. Brouwen is een ambacht dat al eeuwenlang van vader op zoon wordt doorgegeven, ook binnen onze familie. licht Marc Strubbe toe. Wij zijn ook één van de weinige kleine brouwerijen die nog steeds een eigen pils brouwen en die dat pilsbier ook exporteren. Daarnaast brouwen wij het pilsbier voor enkele kleinere brouwerijen die zijn gestopt met een eigen pilsbier. In beperkte mate brouwen wij ook voor derden. In het verleden hebben wij ook de merken van Callewaert uit Zwevezele en van Crombé uit Zottegem overgenomen, waardoor die bieren in Ichtegem worden gebrouwen. Pils brouwen, is het moeilijkste wat er is, verduidelijkt Marc Strubbe. Het bier mag niet te bitter en niet te zoet zijn. Daarenboven willen wij evenmin meedoen aan een algemene trend naar smaakvervlakking waarbij ongewenste nevensmaken ( off tastes ) kunnen opduiken. In tegenstelling tot heel wat brouwerijen, brouwen wij onze bieren nog steeds volgens de infusiemethode. Wij kunnen tot tweemaal per dag zo n 100 hl brouwen. Wij laten onze bieren, afhankelijk van het gewenste biertype, ook minstens vier weken lageren alvorens zij worden vrijgegeven voor verkoop. Op dit ogenblik gaan wij enorm vooruit in het segment van de biobieren en de glutenvrije bieren, die wij in opdracht brouwen voor Lei- Diverse leden van Belgian Family Brewers verwelkomen de familiebrouwerij Strubbe als twintigste lid. reken. De bio-omzet haalt nu al zo n 10% van onze jaarproductie van hl. Zowat 40% van onze productie wordt geëxporteerd. Op exportvlak scoren wij bijvoorbeeld zeer goed met Ichtegems Grand Cru, een variante op Ichtegem s Oud Bruin dat gedurende achttien maanden rijpt op eiken vaten. Wij hebben de Grand Cru gecreëerd voor de 175e verjaardag van de brouwerij in 2006, maar hebben dit bier behouden. Aanvankelijk rijpte het in kleine vaten van zo n 250 liter, recenter hebben wij geïnvesteerd in klassieke rechtopstaande foeders van 50 hl. en weldra komen er daar nog twee bij van 70 hl. Ichtegems Grand Cru is een bier volgens de West-Vlaamse traditie van roodbruine bieren van gemengde gisting. In onder andere de Verenigde Staten, Japan, China en Zuid-Amerika is er aardig wat vraag naar. Nu komt het erop aan om dit bier ook regionaal te laten herontdekken, aldus nog Marc Strubbe, die de brouwerij samen met zijn zoon Pascal en zijn neef Stefan leidt TOP 10 www Bier in de horeca Het aandeel van bier dat in de horeca wordt gedronken, is de voorbije jaren in de meeste Europese landen gedaald ten voordele van het thuisverbruik. In België is het de voorbije zes jaar gedaald van 48% naar 44%. In Nederland is het evenwel gestegen van 27% naar 35%, zo blijkt uit de cijfers van Brewers of Europe. Ook in Kroatië en Zweden wordt er meer bier op café gedronken. De Ieren blijven standvastige pub-bezoekers. In de Baltische staten wordt hooguit 10% op café geconsumeerd. 1. Ierland 67% 2. Spanje 64% 3. Portugal 63% 4. Malta 60% 5. Griekenland 57% 6. Luxemburg 49% 7. Groot-Brittannië 49% 8. België 44% 9. Zwitserland 44% 10. Cyprus 42%0 8 CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL 2017

9 HORECATEL 2017 Ook na zijn 50ste verjaardag heeft het Salon Horecatel nog heel wat mooie jaren in het verschiet! De editie van 2017 houdt dezelfde koers aan en biedt opnieuw de beste producten aan op een zilveren schoteltje. Een ding is zeker, tijdens Horecatel wordt u bediend! Bijna 420 exposanten uit heel België werden zorgvuldig geselecteerd voor de kwaliteit van hun producten, materialen en diensten en ze hebben niet geaarzeld om hun aanwezigheid te bevestigen. Ze zijn klaar om de creativiteit, innovatie en passie aan te wakkeren bij de professionele bezoekers die verwacht worden. Met vijf paleizen die in het teken staan van de Horecasectoren en een zesde paleis dat op gastronomie gericht is kunnen we wel stellen dat Horecatel iedereen binnen de beroepssector weet te bekoren: hoteleigenaars, restaurantuitbaters, caféhouders, frituristen, traiteurs, beenhouwers, patissiers, chefs, gastronomen, foodies, Op dit salon vinden ze allemaal creatieve, smakelijke, relationele en commerciële oplossingen dankzij het contact met de exposanten, maar ook tijdens conferenties of talrijke culinaire demonstraties die georkestreerd worden door befaamde chefs. Voor de volledige lijst van producten, materialen en diensten, kunt u de lijst met exposanten raadplegen op de website waar ook het volledige programma met de demo s, wedstrijden en conferenties te vinden is. PRAKTISCHE INFORMATIE Openingsuren: van zondag 12 tot dinsdag 14 maart: van tot uur (toegang tot 18u30), woensdag 15 maart: van tot uur (toegang tot uur) Plaats: WEX - Marche-en-Famenne - België Prijs: salon voorbehouden voor de professionals van de Horeca. Gratis inkom na voorlegging van een uitnodigingskaart. Zonder uitnodiging: 35. Groep studenten hotelwezen (enkel op woensdagnamiddag): 6 /persoon. Parking: 3 /dag. boek 328 Originele cafés in Vlaanderen Met 328 Originele cafés in Vlaanderen (en soms ook net over de grens) is deze ongeëvenaarde klassieker al aan zijn zestiende uitgave toe. Het concept opgestart door Bob Hendrickx wordt nu verdergezet door Benny Van Hecke. Een korte beschrijving van elk café wordt aangevuld met een steekkaart die elementaire informatie bevat over aantal vaten- en flessenbieren, openingstijden, aantal zitplaatsen, vaste vakantieperiode en volledige adresgegevens. De specialiteit van het huis wordt vermeld; dat kan zowel een streekgerecht zijn als eerlijk gastheerschap. Je krijgt nog informatie over toeristische bezienswaardigheden, fiets- en wandelpaden, nabijgelegen fietsknooppunten en contactgegevens van de toeristische dienst. De succesformule slaat nog altijd aan. Voor 24,95 euro krijg je een echt praktische gids die je in fietstas, rugzak of handschoenkastje kan opbergen, die je op één pagina, alle nuttige informatie over een café en zijn omgeving geeft en die je tot euro aan gratis tweede consumpties of snacks kan opleveren. Wie voor april 2019 alle 328 bierspeciaalzaken en authentieke (dorps-)cafés heeft bezocht, krijgt zijn gewicht in bier. Vanaf 100 cafés ontvang je een gratis bak bier om thuis na te genieten. Op de Facebookpagina van het boek krijg je de nodige nieuwsjes en updates. 328 Originele cafés in Vlaanderen, Uitgeverij Antilope, Lier, 416 pagina s, 24,95 euro CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL

10 NIEUWS FEBED-CONGRES Professionaliseren en representatieve info verzamelen GEERT VAN LIERDE Na intense voorbereiding start Febed zijn project van representatieve data gathering dat een verdere professionalisering van de drankenhandel beoogt. Drankenhandelaars kunnen zo de hedendaagse verkopen en trends in de horecamarkt, bij de drankenhandelaar en de drinkcenters in het algemeen veel beter uptodate volgen. Febed, de Federatie van de Belgische Drankenhandelaars, vertegenwoordigt zo n 630 onafhankelijke drankenhandelaars, samen goed voor een omzet van 1,638 miljard en een tewerkstelling van 5360 personen. Met het oog op een verdere professionalisering werd de voorbije jaren gestart met een project data gathering. Op die manier wil de beroepsvereniging haar leden actueel en correct informeren over de verkopen van bieren, softdrinks en water via de drankenhandelaar. Nadat heel wat klippen werden overwonnen met betrekking tot gewaarborgde privacy, het bundelen van de noodzakelijke informatie en de wijze waarop die ter beschikking kan worden gesteld, gaf Febeddirecteur Walter Herrebosch tijdens het congres het officiële startschot van het project. Voor 2015 kon men, dankzij de medewerking van drankenhandelaars, distributieplatformen en drinkcenters, beschikken over informatie verzameld via verkooppunten. Samengeteld verkochten die hl bier, hl softdrinks en hl. waters. De gegevens voor 2016 en de eerste maanden van 2017 zijn weldra beschikbaar. Alle informatie is beschikbaar per maand en per jaar en kan worden uitgesplitst per regio, stad en stadsgewest. Verder opdeling is bijvoorbeeld mogelijk per biertype of merk en kan worden gepersonaliseerd volgens de wensen van de drankenhandelaar. Voldoende criteria werden ingebouwd om de anonimiteit van de gegevensverstrekker en de verkooppunten te waarborgen. Bovendien worden dranken alleen merkgebonden geïnventariseerd wanneer zij worden verkocht op tenminste 200 plaatsen en er ook voldoende gegevens kunnen worden verzameld over een specifieke regio. Naast het project van data gathering werd uitgebreid ingegaan op de opmars van waterfilters als goedkoop alternatief voor gebotteld mineraalwater. Informeren en e-commerce Tijdens het Febed-congres namen de drankenhandelaars afscheid van Walter Herrebosch die twaalf jaar lang directeur was en die nu met pensioen gaat. In die tijdspanne heeft hij Febed alleszins op de kaart gezet en ook initiatieven als Freedom-pils en pils van de patron gestalte gegeven. In zijn functie wordt hij opgevolgd door Gilles Vandorpe. Toekomstige uitdagingen zijn, volgens hem een optimalisering van de informatieverstrekking aan de leden en het sterker maken van de drankenhandelaar in een nieuwe maatschappelijke omgeving, waarin het erop aankomt om de digitale revolutie te faciliteren. Daarbij verwees hij onder meer naar e-commerce, webshops en online-platformen via dewelke bestellingen worden doorgegeven en afgehandeld. Algemeen voorzitter Philip Lahaye dankte Walter Herrebosch voor zijn inzet en stipte eveneens de aandachtspunten voor 2017 aan. Hoewel er zich een consolidatie voltrekt, is de toekomst voor de onafhankelijke handelaar groot en rooskleurig. Steeds meer consumenten vinden hun weg naar ons, komen naar ons voor gintonics, geselecteerde wijnen en bieren evenals koffies en thee. De prijs van een krat pilsbier is minder belangrijk geworden, dan wel bijvoorbeeld het aanbod van oude geuze en speciaalbieren. Wij gaan dan ook verdere samenwerking met professionele samenwerkingsverbanden, aankoopgroeperingen en producenten. Dag van de drankenhandelaar Uittredend directeur Walter Herrebosch en zijn opvolger Gilles Vandorpe zetten volop in op een verdere professionalisering en hedendaagse positionering van de drankenhandel. Tussen 25 en 27 november organiseerden heel wat drankenhandelaars talrijke proeverijen, workshops en promoties naar aanleiding van de Dag van de Drankenhandelaar. Tijdens het Febed-congres werden de handelaars onderscheiden die uiteenlopende initiatieven hadden genomen: De Keyzer Drinks (St. Stevens-Woluwe), Marlou (Zonhoven), Schoentjes (St. Pieters- Leeuw), Stravbier (Iddergem), Van Oevelen (Essen), Vogelzang (Zedelgem), Altruy (Bergen), Daune (Ste. Marie-sur-Semois), Legrand (Sambreville) en Bevernagie (Lichtervelde). Een bijzondere award werd toegekend aan Dranken Baets (Lubbeek) die volop had ingezet op streekproducten in al hun verscheidenheid en die ook de lokale jeugdvereniging betrok tijdens de open-deurdag. 10 CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL 2017

11 NIEUWS boek Authentieke Belgische cafés Met Authentieke Belgische cafés eert Regula Ysewijn de authentieke Belgische bruine cafés, niet de gehypte nieuwe herbergen met een vintage interieur, maar die onvervalste decennia of zelfs eeuwenoude cafés met stamgasten en een interieur dat boeken vol zou kunnen neerschrijven over de kleine en grote verhalen die zich er hebben afgespeeld. Het café-erfgoed is er om te koesteren en dat doet Regula Ysewijn. Zij selecteerde 45 traditionele cafés die lokaal niet zelden het statuut van instelling hebben. Zijdelings worden enkele cafégebonden volksgebruiken belicht zoals de spaarkasjes, de zageman en de pitjesbak. Meer dan een cafégids schetst Authentieke Belgische cafés de sfeer van elke ontmoetingsplaats, het interieur, de stamgasten die er komen. Aangevuld met sprekende foto s word je ondergedompeld in een stukje café-beleving. Kortom, een boek om in huis te halen. Authentieke Belgische Cafés, Uitgeverij Luster, Antwerpen, 271 pagina s, 25 euro. PROBLEMEN MET WITTE KASSA Volgens de FOD Financiën zijn er technische problemen de opslagcapaciteit van ruim van de witte kassa s. De oorzaak zou liggen bij een chip van Chinese makelij in bepaalde kassa s van een Zweedse producent. Het gaat om modules met de certifi catienummers RET01 tot RET05. In november stelde de FOD Financiën vast dat diverse kassa s plots ophielden met het registreren van dagontvangsten en btw-gegevens in restaurants. De producent schakelt nu zijn verdelers in om bij alle uitbaters met zo n toestellen langs te gaan en die kosteloos te vervangen. De FOD Financiën garandeert dat de rechtszekerheid en bedrijfscontinuïteit niet in het gedrang is gekomen en dat ze alle administratie op zich neemt. Horeca Vlaanderen en NSZ zijn niet te spreken over de falende software en de uiterst vage communicatie die hierrond wordt gevoerd. HAACHT VERRAST MET SUPER 8-BIERGAMMA Met Super 8 lanceert Brouwerij Haacht een nieuw bierassortiment. De eerste telgen daarvan zijn de Super 8 Export en de Super 8 IPA. Op termijn wil de brouwerij acht bieren creëren die uitblinken door een hedendaagse interpretatie van klassieke bierstijlen. Bieren zoals je ze kent, maar niet had verwacht, luidt de alleszins heel toepasselijke slogan voor deze mooie bieren. Super 8 verwijst naar één van de eerste bieren die Brouwerij Haacht ontwikkelde, in de tijd dat pils nog een nieuwigheid was. Super 8 wordt een nieuw merk van authentieke bieren die met respect voor traditie inspelen op de hedendaagse trends. Stamvader in de portfolio in de Super 8 Export, een lichter pilsbier van 4,8 vol.%, dat reeds in de twintiger jaren van vorige eeuw werd gelanceerd. Super 8 Export heeft een fi jne hoptoets en een kreeg een nieuwe dimensie door zijn glutenvrij karakter. Gebotteld in een 33cl-fl esje, is deze doordrinker ideaal voor liefhebbers van een goede pint zonder gedoe. Het tweede bier is de Super 8 IPA. Met zijn 6 vol.% en zijn fi jn gedoseerd hopkarakter met een evenwichtige citrustoets is deze IPA een stuk toegankelijker dan de meeste IPA s die vervallen in extreme bitterheid. Met de Super 8 IPA geeft Brouwerij Haacht een verfrissende interpretatie van dit thans populaire biertype, dat wordt gepositioneerd als een amberbier voor genieters JAAR? BEWIJS T MAAR! De Belgische Brouwers slaan de handen in elkaar met de horecafederaties voor het uitdragen van 16 jaar? Bewijs t maar!, een sensibiliseringscampagne voor het respecteren van de minimumleeftijd van 16 als het gaat om het schenken of verkopen van bier. Al jarenlang speelt de federatie een voortrekkersrol bij het uitdragen van deze waarden aan de hand van verschillende initiatieven (bv. BOB campagne). Zo ook op het vlak van jongeren en alcohol. De Belgische brouwers zijn immers overtuigd van het feit dat min- 16-jarigen geen alcohol moeten drinken. De sensibiliseringscampagne 16 jaar? Bewijs t maar! is een opfrissing van het vroegere Respect16. BELGIAN COAST IPA VOORGESTELD Met een blend van zeven Belgische en Amerikaanse hopsoorten (Brewer s Gold, Magnum, Fuggles, Northern Brewer, Mosaic, Citra en Cascade) ontwikkelde brouwerij St. Feuillien een Belgian Coast IPA. Deze 5,5 vol.% lichte IPA combineert de uitgesproken intensiteit en de bitterheid van een Amerikaanse IPA met een licht alcoholische en evenwichtig karakter. Deze heldere, donker goudgele IPA wordt afgetopt met een stevige, dikke helderwitte schuimkraag die zich volop ontwikkelt dankzij een hoog koolzuurgasgehalte. Het aroma is complex, fruitige, fl oraal en kruidig met een lichte mout- en carameltoets op de achtergrond. Die zoetige moutbasis vlakt in de smaakbeleving de bitterheid wat af waardoor een evenwichtig geheel ontstaat met een vrij droge nasmaak. MONOBLEND BOON VAT 109 Oude Geuze Boon Vat 109 is opnieuw een geslaagde monoblend van de Lembeekse lambiekbrouwerij. De lambiek voor deze geuze is afkomstig van foeder nr. 109, een meer dan honderd jaar oud vat van 90 hl. Het vat werd in München gebouwd als bierton maar werd vanaf 1935 gebruikt voor stockage van cognac. Na renovatie werd het in 2009 in gebruik genomen door brouwerij Boon. De foeder geeft nog steeds zijn cognactoets aan de lambiek die erin rijpt. Vat 109 is bovendien de eerste geuze in de reeks waarvoor 100% lambiek uit de nieuwe brouwzaal wordt gebruikt. Vat 109 heeft gedurende twee jaar op foeder gerijpt en in het voorjaar van 2016 afgevuld. Met een vergistingsgraad van 93% is deze oude geuze niet extreem droog maar wel heel volmondig met een karakter waarin hout, vanille, droog fruit en wat perzik opduiken. RETURN OF THE WHITE WIDOW Op algemeen verzoek brengt Brouwerij De Hoorn haar eerste brouwsel Arthur s Legacy terug op de markt, het wordt herdoopt als Return of the White Widow. Het wordt gebrouwen met 40% tarwe waardoor deze Arthur s Legacy niet alleen troebel is maar in smaak ook heel volmondig met een zachte afdronk is. Het bier heeft een alcoholpercentage van 7.1 % en een uitgesproken fruitig en fris citruskarakter afkomstig van een selectie kruiden. COCA-COLA VERDEELT STERKE DRANKEN Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP), de organisatie verantwoordelijk voor de productie, distributie en verkoop van niet-alcoholische dranken, waaronder de producten van The Coca-Cola Company, is op 1 januari drie nieuwe samenwerkingen gestart voor de distributie van sterke dranken. Voortaan zal het de distributie, verkoop én de marketing verzorgen van de Buss Gin s van het Belgische Buss Spirits en van de likeuren Disaronno Liqueur en Tia Maria van het Italiaanse Illva Saronno. 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14 DOSSIER Bingo s en slotmachines zijn belangrijk voor de cafésector SECTOR IS VRAGEND PARTIJ VOOR AANPASSING WETGEVEND KADER PETER VAN OYEN Midden januari suggereerde ex-staatssecretaris voor fraudebestrijding Carl Devlies in de krant De Tijd dat er veel wantoestanden zouden bestaan in de cafés met bingo s en slotmachines (3.3 toestellen). De huidige CD& V-schepen van de stad Leuven stelde zelfs dat de Kansspelcommissie die wantoestanden in de goksector zou stimuleren. Bijzonder jammer en volkomen onjuist, reageert Hans De Keersmaecker, Algemeen Directeur van Wimi Games. Volgens hem doet de kansspelsector er integendeel alles aan om zelfregulerend op te treden. Bovendien zijn kansspelen erg belangrijk voor de rendabiliteit van de cafés, die nu al moeite hebben om het hoofd boven water te houden. Wimi Games is een toonaangevend Belgisch merk in het verdelen en verkopen van elektronische kansspelautomaten in de cafésector. Het bedrijf werd in 1958 opgericht door Willy Michiels en is na meer dan 50 jaar nog steeds vernieuwend. Zo worden alle producten van deze marktleider in eigen beheer ontwikkeld, geproduceerd en geëxploiteerd. Eind vorig jaar werd Hans De Keersmaecker aangeworven als Algemeen Directeur van Wimi Games. Hans Hans De Keersmaecker, Algemeen De Keersmaecker, die al een hele Directeur Wimi Games: Ons doel carrière in de drankensector heeft is om met onze kansspelautomaten doorlopen, moet de positie van Wimi de tevredenheid van de spelers en de Games als marktleider consolideren cafébazen te vergroten en het paradepaardje onder de bingotoestellen, de Ultra Seven, verder in de cafés uitrollen. Hans De Keersmaecker steekt niet onder stoelen of banken dat hij de uitlatingen van Carl Devlies over de kansspelen ongepast vond. Ik verslikte mij in mijn koffie toen ik dat artikel in De Tijd las. Je moet weten dat de kansspelsector al te vaak ten onrechte scheef wordt bekeken. Onterechte kritiek zoals die van Devlies, versterken die negatieve perceptie alleen maar. Terwijl er toch juist een enorme transparantie heerst in de kansspelsector. Vorig jaar bijvoorbeeld moesten alle bingo s in de Belgische cafés uitgerust zijn met een eid-kaartlezer, voor de leeftijdsverificatie van minderjarigen. Elke bingo is trouwens voorzien van een GPRS-module die elke 24 uur indexen doorstuurt, zodat de Kansspelcommissie perfect op de hoogte is van het omzetcijfer van iedere bingokast. Bovendien moeten de caféuitbaters die een bingo willen uitbaten, beschikken over een vergunning. Er mogen trouwens maar twee bingo s in een café geplaatst worden. Zeggen dat de Kanspelcommissie de wantoestanden in de goksector zou stimuleren is dan ook te gek voor woorden. De Algemeen Directeur van Wimi Games toont zich tevreden dat FedCaf (Federatie van Cafés van België vzw) het met een persbericht voor de kansspelsector heeft opgenomen. FedCaf benadrukt daarbij het belang van kansspelen (type bingo en slotmachines) voor de cafésector. Zeker in deze moeilijke economische tijden, kunnen inkomsten die voortvloeien uit kansspelen bijdragen tot overleven binnen de horecasector. Hans De Keersmaecker: De cafésector moet vandaag het hoofd bieden aan zeer veel uitdagingen. Er is het rookverbod dat klanten doet weg blijven. In grote steden zorgt de terreurdreiging voor een terugloop van toeristen en klanten. Daarnaast heb je ook nog eens de invoering van de witte kassa en de stijgende prijzen voor bieren en andere dranken. En er wordt minder op café gegaan, doordat er meer dan vroeger alternatieven zijn. Met de opbrengsten uit bingo s of slotmachines kan de cafébaas de situatie misschien rechttrekken. Voordelen van bingo s en slotmachines De voordelen die bingo s en slotmachines bieden, zijn volgens de Algemeen Directeur van Wimi Games van tweeerlei aard. In de eerste plaats zouden bingo s en 3.3 toestellen volgens Hans De Keersmaecker zorgen voor meer sfeer in het café. Bingo s trekken nieuwe en extra klanten aan en 14 CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL 2017

15 De sector is vragende partij om voor de 3.3 toestellen, zoals de Super Joker, een duidelijk wettelijk kader te krijgen. zorgen voor extra activiteit in het café. Klanten die spelen, geven ook meer uit aan consumpties. Dit brengt ons naadloos bij het tweede voordeel: de extra inkomsten. Niet alleen door de extra consumpties in het café, maar ook door omzet van de kansspeltoestellen, meent Hans De Keersmaecker: Bingotoestellen zijn voor de caféuitbater een appeltje voor de dorst. Het is geen goudmijn, zoals sommigen dit voorstellen. Uit cijfers die FedCaf verspreidde, blijkt dat de omzet per bingo voor de caféuitbater per maand 830 euro bedroeg. Dit was het cijfer voor Sinds eind 2015 tot op 31 december 2016 is een drastische terugval genoteerd van het zakencijfer met 28 %. Vandaag bedraagt de gemiddelde omzet ongeveer 598 euro per maand, per bingo, te verdelen onder de leverancier en de cafébaas. Die terugval was voornamelijk te wijten aan de verplichte invoering van de eid-kaartlezer. Bij de zogenaamde 3.3 toestellen ligt het omzetcijfer lager. Volgens de cijfers van FedCaf zou het zakencijfer gemiddeld 142 euro per maand en per toestel voor de caféuitbater bedragen. Passie voor koffie Onduidelijke wetgeving over 3.3 toestellen Op dit ogenblik zijn er volgens de cijfers van FedCaf in België zo n cafés die over een vergunning C beschikken die de uitbating van bingo s toelaat. Daarnaast zijn er nog andere slotmachines, waarvoor er geen vergunning vereist is. In het jargon worden deze slotmachines 3.3 toestellen genoemd, naar het artikel 3.3 van de Kansspelwet, dat voorschrijft dat bepaalde spelen geen kansspelen zijn. Het gaat vooral over de slotgames. Hans De Keersmaecker: De sector is al lang vragende partij om de onduidelijke wetgeving omtrent 3.3 toestellen aan te passen. Zo hebben de plaatsers van caféspelen reeds in 2015 een schrijven gericht aan de Kansspelcommissie met de vraag om de 3.3 toestellen op een gelijkaardige manier te reglementeren zoals de bingo s. We hebben van de overheid nog steeds geen eenduidig antwoord gekregen. Toekomstplannen De Algemeen Directeur van Wimi Games zegt dat zijn fi rma blijft innoveren in de markt. In veel cafés wordt het machinepark vernieuwd. De focus wordt daarbij gelegd op de populaire Ultra Seven, die daarom in veel drankgelegenheden zal worden bijgeplaatst. Hans De Keersmaecker: Wij willen voor nog meer spelersgenot zorgen en een goede service bieden. Ons doel is om de tevredenheid van de spelers én de cafébazen te vergroten. Daarnaast hopen wij dat de overheid werk maakt van een duidelijkere wetgeving rond de 3.3 toestellen. Bezoek ons op HORECATEL MARCHE 12-15/03/2017 Stand 3B16 CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL

16 DOSSIER Jaar van het tankbier? GESELECTEERDE HORECA-ZAKEN TAPPEN PILS UIT DE TANK GEERT VAN LIERDE Tankbier werd tot op heden vooral getapt tijdens mega-evenementen en in voetbalstadions. In huisbrouwerijen wordt speciaalbier ook al eens rechtstreeks uit de lagertank getapt. In klassieke horeca-zaken heeft het vatenbier dat steeds meer wordt gestockeerd in een vatenkoelcel nog steeds de bovenhand. Sinds kort wordt er ook meer geïnvesteerd in tankbierinstallaties in zorgvuldig geselecteerde horeca-zaken zou wel eens het jaar van het tankbier kunnen worden. Tankbier is al verschillende jaren een begrip in onder andere Groot-Brittannië, Duitsland en Nederland. In België is dit tapconcept alsnog beperkt gebleven tot mega-evenementen of in grote voetbalstadions. Nochtans was uitgerekend België één van de landen waar werd gepionierd met tankbier. Tijdens de Expo 58 in Brussel voerde de toenmalige Brouwerij Maes zijn Maes-Pils met gekoelde tankwagens aan naar de Maes Inn in het themadorp Vrolijk Belgie. Het bier werd er getapt uit drie gekoelde tanks van liter. Tot een echte doorbraak is het nooit gekomen omwille van de 01 In de XIIe oogst in het Vlaams-Brabantse Halen wordt sinds kort in wereldprimeur Leffe Blond uit de tank getapt. 02 Pieter Boudry (AB Inbev): De horecazaak moet er zich toe lenen om tankbier te tappen, de uitbater moet erachter staan, de verkoopsvolumes en -verwachtingen moeten goed zitten. hoge investeringen. Voor een tankinstallatie van 2x1000 l. of 3x500 l. moet je al snel rekenen op zo n euro zonder bijhorende koelcel en tapinstallatie! Daar bovenop komt de kost van een tankwagen om horeca-zaken te bevoorraden tijdens een aparte distributieronde. Het tapconcept op zich is geen garantie voor de kwaliteit van een pint. Goed en pro-actief onderhoud alsook het tappen volgens de regels van de kunst zijn primordiaal. Eerste tank Leffe Blond De opkomst van massa-evenementen, van horeca-zaken met een groot biervolume en van huisbrouwerijen die rechtstreeks uit de lagertank tappen, plaatst tankbier opnieuw in de kijker. In geselecteerde horeca-zaken creëert het een stukje bierbeleving. In Nederland plaatst AB InBev tankbierinstallaties van tweemaal 500 l. vanaf een pilsvolume van 100 hl/jaar en van tweemaal l. van zodra er jaarlijks meer dan 175 hl pils wordt getapt. Vanuit een jarenlange expertise als brouwer bekijken wij ook hoe wij een succesvolle horecazaak kunnen vestigen. Het interieur, de sfeer en het type horecazaak bepalen mede welke bieren wij in dat concept aanbieden en promoten. In een sportcafé is dat wellicht Jupiler, in een brasserie die inzet op foodpairing wordt dat Leffe, vertelt Pieter Boudry (AB Inbev). Het aanbieden van tankbier is één van de mogelijkheden rekening houdende met de beoogde omzet. Wij hebben al aardig wat tankbier-zaken op Jupiler en Stella Artois. In Café Luxembourg, in het hart van de Europese wijk in Brussel, staan er bijvoorbeeld twee pilstanks van liter. Je hebt daar ook te maken met een internationaal publiek dat dikwijls gewend is om halve liters te drinken waardoor je een hoger verkoopsvolume haalt. Ondertussen hebben wij in de XIIe Oogst in Halen de wereldwijd eerste tankbier-installatie voor Leffe Blond geplaatst. Het gaat hier om twee tanks van 250 liter Niet voor iedereen Tankbier is, volgens Pieter Boudry, het beste bier dat een brouwerij kan leveren. Het bier wordt koud afgevuld, getransporteerd en overgepompt in de tanks van 16 CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL 2017

17 de horecazaak. Hierdoor is de kwaliteit optimaal. Bovendien is er natuurlijke koolzuurgasverzadiging en moet je geen bijkomend koolzuurgas toevoegen om te tappen. Hoe minder koolzuurgas een bier bevat hoe beter de kwaliteit ervan is, hoe beter de smaak en hoe beter doordrinkbaar het is. Bovendien moet je minder vaten verwisselen, is er geen bierverlies tijdens het tussentijds spoelen van de leidingen en realiseer je een belangrijke tijdwinst achter de toog. Dat er nieuwe tankbierzaken zullen bijkomen, staat vast maar het zal niet in om het even welke volume-zaak zijn, zegt Pieter Boudry. Het hele verhaal moet goed zitten. De horecazaak moet er zich toe lenen, de uitbater moet erachter staan, de verkoopsvolumes en -verwachtingen moeten goed zitten. Bij Alken-Maes noteert Annelies Heylen een toenemende maar weliswaar nog steeds beperkte vraag naar Maes- en Cristaltankbier. Er zijn een paar zeer prominente voordelen aan maar ik denk niet dat het voor ons het jaar van de tankbier-installaties zal zijn. Wel staat de vraag naar een kwalitatieve pils hoog op onze agenda. Aandachtspunt voor drankenhandelaars Febed, de Federatie van de Belgische Drankenhandelaars, volgt de trend naar tankbierinstallaties van nabij. Het is niet echt een nieuw gegeven. In het verleden zijn er al meermaals initiatieven geweest om tankbier naar voor te schuiven maar het volume daarvan was steeds beperkt, zegt directeur Gilles Vandorpe. In vergelijking met Nederland ligt het verkoopsvolume pilsbier in onze horecazaken ook een stuk lager, mede door het succes van speciaalbieren in de Belgische horeca. De investering in een tankbierinstallatie is ook niet gering. Voor een beperkt aantal horecazaken kan een overschakeling op tankbier interessant zijn. Het is voor ons alleszins een aandachtspunt waarbij wij moeten bekijken hoe een drankenhandelaar hier eventueel kan op inspelen en wat er allemaal komt bij kijken op het vlak van logistieke ondersteuning. Professionele vatenkoelkast moet niet onderdoen Boudewijn van der Kelen (Brouwerij Haacht) bevestigt eveneens dat infrastructuur, de technische mogelijkheden ter plaatse, het investeringsbudget en het beoogde volume bepalen of een horecazaak in aanmerking komt voor tankbier Primus. Een jaaromzet van minstens 120 hl. Primus pilsbier is wenselijk. Bovendien moet de tank ook binnen een bepaalde tijdspanne worden leeggetapt om de kwaliteit van het bier te blijven waarborgen. In principe wordt zo n tank om de vijf tot tien werkdagen leeggetapt en opnieuw gevuld. Primus die uit een tank getapt wordt, smaakt altijd beter, maar horecazaken die beschikken over een professionele vatenkoelkast en een goed afgestelde installatie moeten zeker niet onderdoen. Het tapconcept op zich is geen garantie voor de kwaliteit van een pint. Goed en pro-actief onderhoud alsook het tappen volgens de regels van de kunst zijn primordiaal. De meerwaarde wordt dus niet alleen bepaald door het tapconcept maar wel door het volgen van degelijke opleidingen en het zich vakbekwaam CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL

18 DOSSIER uiten tegenover zijn klanten. Daarom zetten wij, als Brouwerij Haacht, heel sterk in op opleiding van horeca-ondernemers en hun medewerkers. Van zodra een tankinstallatie is geplaatst, hoeven de ondernemer en zijn medewerkers niets meer bij te regelen. Zij moeten alleen het verbruik opvolgen en van tank wisselen. Hoewel de bierleidingen uitgezonderd de aansluitkop op de tanks volledig gekoeld zijn, blijft een wekelijkse spoeling noodzakelijk, net zoals dat moet bij vatenkoelkasten. Driemaal per jaar reinigt onze technische dienst de installatie volledig, net zoals bij de vatenkoelkast. Wanneer er onvoldoende tussentijds, wekelijks, wordt gespoeld, moeten wij die frequentie verhogen om de kwaliteit van het getapte bier te blijven waarborgen. Opleiding primeert Ook andere brouwerijen wijzen erop dat een minimale bieromzet noodzakelijk is. Wij zetten tankbier Bavik-pils alleen in voor grote evenementen omdat het dan gemakkelijjer werkt en minder tijdrovend is, zegt Guillaume Lambrecht (Brouwerij De Brabandere). Bij andere evenementen of horecazaken gebruiken we nog steeds de traditionele vaten (2à, 30 of 50 l.) omdat die kleiner en gemakkelijker te vervoeren zijn. Ook is het verbruik er lager en komt het de kwaliteit niet ten goede wanneer een vat te lang open blijft. Kwaliteit is voor ons altijd zeer belangrijk geweest. Mensen die instaan voor schenken en presenteren van onze bieren worden goed opgeleid en zorgen ervoor dat de consument zijn bier op de best mogelijke manier krijgt. Tankbier kan enkel als er heel grote volumes zijn, en zo zijn er niet ontzettend veel horecazaken bij ons cliënteel, geeft Nicolas Degryse (Brouwerij Vander Ghinste) aan. Daarom hebben wij geen Bockor-tankbier in ons gamma en is het ook geen aandachtspunt. Al de nieuwe installaties die wij plaatsen, zijn vatenkoelcellen omdat die een betere kwaliteit van het bier geven. Daarnaast zetten wij heel hard in op opleiding van horecapersoneel en controleren onze kwaliteitsverantwoordelijken dagelijks de wijze waarop het bier in de horeca wordt geserveerd. Kwaliteit tot in het glas is dan ook ons motto. Jef Cornelissen (Brouwerij Cornelissen) geeft aan dat tankbier op dit ogenblik niet aan de orde is. Wel bekijkt men de introductie van vatenkasten of vatenkoelcellen omdat die bijdragen tot de kwaliteit van de getapte Pax Pils. CULTUURCAFÉ IN BERLARE Orval Ambassadeur Magna Cum Laude GEERT VAN LIERDE Het CultuurCafé in Berlare, dat zich in een tiental jaar tijd ontplooide tot een gepassioneerd trappistencafé, mag zich voortaan Orval-ambassadeur Magna Cum Laude noemen. Het is een mooi eerbetoon voor de service die wij bieden en het voortdurend streven om almaar beter te doen en creatiever uit de hoek te komen, zeggen Kevin De Rouck en Niki Van de Velde. Voor Kevin De Rouck en Niki Van de Velde begon het Orval-avontuur eerder toevallig in de zomer van Wij hadden het CultuurCafé overgenomen en in volle voorbereiding voor de heropening stonden zes muzikanten van een muziekgroep op de parking te praten. Ik vroeg hen of zij iets wil drinken. Ze bestelden allemaal een Orval en wij besloten er eentje mee te drinken. We kenden het trappistenbier van naam en hadden er wel eens gedronken. Aanvankelijk was onze bierkaart beperkt tot een twintigtal bieren waaronder Orval waarvoor wij konden rekenen op heel trouwe klanten. Op Horeca Expo hebben wij ons voorgesteld op de stand van Orval. Het ambassadeurschap sprak ons wel aan en sindsdien zijn wij er voluit voor gegaan. Wanneer je zo n engagement neemt, dan wil je daar ook verder in gaan. In 2004 werden wij erkend als ambassadeur, zes jaar later werd dat ambassadeur cum laude en nu Magna cum Laude. Je streeft er voortdurend naar om steeds beter te doen, je beter te informeren en je klanten te verwennen met hun Orval. Dirk Colpaert (Drankenhandel Vandenameele), Philippe Henroz, Geoffroy Degroote (Orval) overhandigen de trofee Orval-ambassadeur magna cum laude aan Kevin en Niki. Het zijn echt heel trouwe klanten, treedt Niki bij. Tegenwoordig vragen er zelfs of zij geen selfie mogen nemen met de magna cum laude -trofee erbij. De meeste klanten vragen een jonge Orval, sommigen willen steevast een oudere, soms wel meer dan vijf jaar oude Orval. Doorheen de jaren is het CultuurCafé uitgegroeid tot een volwaardig trappistencafé, dat daarnaast nog tientallen andere authentieke speciaalbieren serveert. Wat ooit startte als een trappistenweekend is inmiddels uitgegroeid tot een trappistenweek waarin uitsluitend trappistenbieren worden geschonken. Het trappisten- of Orvalbord met kazen en kaasbereidingen en fijne vleeswaren waarin trappist is verwerkt, is een topper op de kaart. Een succesformule om Orval-ambassadeur te worden, is er niet. Je moet daar zelf op inzetten en erover waken dat ook je medewerkers meegaan in het hele verhaal, geeft Kevin nog mee. Omdat de verschillende cum laude en magna cum laude -ambassadeurs zo n uiteenlopende zaken zijn, die elk op hun manier en binnen hun concept Orval in de kijker plaatsen, hebben wij ons alvast voorgenomen om alle zaken te gaan bezoeken. Het is zonder meer een mooi eerbetoon vanwege de abdij aan haar klanten. Cultuurcafe-Berlare, www 18 CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL 2017

19 BIEREN CAFÉ ST. PIETER IN TURNHOUT Authentiek bruin café met klassiekers GEERT VAN LIERDE Met zijn meer dan 100 jaar is café St.-Pieter op de Grote Markt één van de oudste bruine kroegen in Turnhout. Het interieur ademt een levendige geschiedenis en sfeer uit met zijn houten lambriseringen, zitbanken tegen de muur en houten tafeltjes. Op de kaart pronken klassiekers onder de bieren en de lichte maaltijden, al dan niet gecombineerd tot een heerlijke Westmalle-plank met een Dubbel of een Tripel en een boerenboterham met echte trappistenkaas. Gelegen tegenover de Sint-Pieterskerk op de Turnhoutse Grote Markt is Café St.-Pieter met zijn neoclassicistische gevel en zijn authentiek interieur zonder meer een begrip. Het café werd in 1906 opgericht en is daarmee één van de oudste bruine cafés in Turnhout. Vier generaties lang was het café in het bezit van de familie Smulders, tot het in mei 2015 werd overgenomen door Paul Versteylen. Zeven dagen per week zijn wij geopend vanaf 8u, voor de zaterdagmarkt is dat zelf een uurtje vroeger. Doorheen de dag komen er heel wat trouwe klanten over de vloer, s morgens om hun krant te lezen en een koffietje te drinken, s middags voor een lichte maaltijd, s namiddags voor een nagerecht of vieruurtje en s avonds meestal voor een bijeenkomst of vergadering. Wij zijn ook de vaste stek voor onder andere de bridgeclub, de schaakclub en tal van andere verenigingen. boerenbrood. Rond het middaguur worden er aardig wat boerenboterhammen met Westmalle-kaas opgediend. Die broodmaaltijd past ook mooi binnen het concept van andere lichte maaltijden en snacks op de kaart. Het gaat dan niet alleen om diverse boterhammen, salades, croques en eiergerechten maar ook om klassieker en streekgerechten zoals een hammetje in mosterdsaus, beuling met appelmoes of erwtensoep met ham. Bier en kaas op de plank Doorheen de jaren is St.-Pieter altijd wel bekend geweest om zijn uitgebreide bierkaart, vervolgt Paul Versteylen. Wij schenken bijvoorbeeld acht bieren van het vat, waaronder De Koninck, Kasteel Rouge, Karmeliet, Grimbergen Donker, Corsendonk Blond en, als één van de enigen in Turnhout, ook de Westmalle Dubbel van het vat. Op de tapkraan bieden wij, net zoals op de kaart, een goede mix tussen donker en blond, tussen zoet en bitter en dat slaat echt wel aan. Wanneer ik naar het flessenbier kijk, dan is Westmalle Tripel het tweede bier, na Duvel. Wij waken ook nauwgezet over de kwaliteit van het bier. Alle medewerkers hebben een opleiding gevolgd om professioneel te tappen en te schenken. Wij schenken de Westmalle Tripel zeer helder uit en laten het gistdepot in de fles. Precies omdat Westmalle hier zo goed loopt, hebben wij meteen de kans gegrepen om ook in te zetten op Westmalle-kaas toen de abdijgemeenschap besloot om de kaas ruimer te gaan verdelen. Sindsdien rijden wij regelmatig naar de abdij voor enkele blokken jonge kaas. We serveren die als een portie kaasblokjes, maar eveneens in sneden op www Paul Versteylen: Rond het middaguur gaan er aardig wat boerenboterhammen met Westmalle-kaas en een Tripel of een Dubbel over de toonbank. CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL

20 NEWS CONSUMENTEN DENKEN DAT ZIJ MINERAALWATER KRIJGEN Febed en VIWF kaarten problematiek tapwater aan GEERT VAN LIERDE Naar schatting horecazaken, hoofdzakelijk in Vlaanderen en Brussel, schenken hun klanten tegenwoordig water van het huis in plaats van gebotteld mineraalwater. Omdat meer dan negen op tien consumenten duidelijkheid wensen over het water dat hen wordt geserveerd, startten de Federatie van Belgische Drankenhandelaars (Febed) en het Koninklijk Verbond van de Industrie van Waters en Frisdranken (VIWF) een informatiecampagne. Tapwater of gefilterd drinkwater dat in flessen of karaffen wordt geserveerd, wordt op steeds meer tafels in brasseries en restaurants geplaatst. De verkoopprijs ervan schommelt vlot rond 7-8 euro per karaf of fles. Volgens Febed wordt het inmiddels geschonken in zo n horecazaken, overwegend in Vlaanderen en Brussel. Het tapwater wordt meermaals aangeprezen met vermeldingen als rijk aan mineralen, natuurlijk gefilterd met toevoeging van mineralen of natuurlijk sprankelend mineraalwater terwijl het doorgaans gaat om gefilterd drink- of leidingwater. Wij stellen ons heel wat vragen over de herkomst, de kwaliteit en de omschrijvingen die eraan worden gegeven, zegt David Marquenie, secretaris-generaal VIWF. Analyses door het voedselveiligheidsagentschap FAVV wijzen niet op fouten, maar de consument wordt alleszins misleid. In Frankrijk geldt er sinds 2009 een verplichte etikettering eau rendu potable par traitement waarmee gefilterd drinkwater duidelijk wordt onderscheiden van mineraalwater. Een door ons gevoerde online-enquête wees uit dat 97,5% van de consumenten mineraalwater verwacht wanneer zij water bestellen. 90% vindt het niet correct dat tapwater wordt opgediend, 95% wil vooraf ge- informeerd worden over de herkomst van het water en 80% wil een verplichte vermelding dat het gaat om behandeld drinkbaar water. Gecontroleerd? Namens Febed plaatste uittredend directeur Walter Herrebosch diverse kanttekeningen bij tapwater. Leidingwater is één zaak, maar de drinkwatermaatschappij is slechts verantwoordelijk voor de waterkwaliteit tot aan de meter, en niet voor de kwaliteit ervan in de leidingen in een gebouw. Bovendien wordt mineraalwater medisch gecontroleerd en leidingwater niet. Wij vragen ons af wie er verantwoordelijk is wanneer er wat misloopt met de volksgezondheid nadat consumenten tapwater hebben gedronken. Ook wordt de optimale kwaliteit van tapwater gegarandeerd onmiddellijk na plaatsing van een nieuwe filter. Hoe dikwijls wordt die filter gereinigd? Hoe hygiënisch verantwoord worden flessen en karaffen gereinigd? Verder kan men zich afvragen of het sop de kool wel waard is. De installatie kost tussen euro, voor een behoorlijke karaf of fles telt men ook al 5 euro neer, voor twee onderhoudsbeurten betaalt men vlot euro. En, hoe gaat men fiscaal vaststellen welk percentage drinkwater in de horecazaak werd geserveerd als tapwater en bijgevolg ook in een ander BTW-stelsel valt. Tijdens het Febed-congres kondigden Febed en VIWF alvast aan dat zij bij de FOD Economie en het Voedselveiligheidsagentschap FAVV zullen aandringen op strengere controles op respectievelijk de misleidende informatie aan consumenten en op de hygiënische kwaliteit van het geserveerde tapwater overeenkomstig de controles die worden uitgevoerd op merkwaters. Ook wordt een campagne opgezet om de horeca uitgebreid te informeren over het verschil tussen tapwater en mineraalwater. www Febed reikt Bronzen Pint 2016 uit CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL 2017

21 IN DE KIJKER NIEUWE NAAM VOOR BROUWERIJEN HET SAS EN VAN EECKE Leroy Breweries focust op passie en vakmanschap GEERT VAN LIERDE Leroy Breweries wordt de nieuwe naam van het samenwerkingsverband tussen de brouwerijen Het Sas uit Boezinge en Van Eecke uit Watou. Met een nieuwe naam en een nieuw imago wil Karel Leroy het vakmanschap en de passie van elf bier brouwende generaties nog sterker dan voorheen uitdragen. Opgericht in respectievelijk 1572 en 1624 behoren de brouwerijen Het Sas uit Boezinge en Van Eecke uit Watou tot de oudste nog actieve brouwerijen in West-Vlaanderen. Na jaren van nauwe, familiale,samenwerking komt de brouwerij Van Eecke in 1962 door erfenis volledig in handen van de familie Leroy. Sindsdien werd brouwerij Van Eecke volledig geïntegreerd in Het Sas, waar alle bieren van beide brouwerijen nagisten en worden gebotteld. Voor de buitenwereld was het soms wat verwarrend met twee brouwerijen, verschillende facturen maar een gecentraliseerde administratie, transport en exportbenadering. Daarom hebben wij ervoor gekozen om voortaan naar buiten te treden onder één benaming, Leroy Breweries. Op papier blijven de vennootschappen achter de twee brouwerijen bestaan maar wij opteren voor een interne facturatie tussen beide, zegt Karel Leroy, die de elfde generatie van deze authentieke familiebrouwerij vertegenwoordigt. Wij voeren die integratie stapsgewijze verder door en dat geeft ons ook de kans om de rijke brouwerstraditie en het vakmanschap van beide brouwerijen verder uit te dragen. Gespreid over beide vestigingen hebben wij 2016 afgerond met een jaarproductie van hl. Het grootste volume daarin wordt ingenomen door onze Sas Pils, een karaktervol pilsbier dat wij ook volop uitvoeren naar Frankrijk, tot in Bordeaux en Toulouse toe. Twee derden van onze export gaat naar Frankrijk, maar ook in Nederland, Groot-Brittannië en Japan wordt er Sas Pils gedronken. In eigen land en in het buitenland is Leroy Breweries vooral bekend om zijn speciaalbieren. Alom bekend is het in 1981 gelanceerde Hommelbier (7,5 vol.%), waarvan sinds 2012 een variante Fresh Harvest wordt gebrouwen met verse, en enkel in Poperinge geoogste hop wordt gebrouwen. Een tweede variante is de Dry Hopped Hommel die enkel voor de professionele klanten in de horeca op vat wordt afgevuld, verteld Karel Leroy. Dat geldt ook voor de Cuvée Watou, een lichtjes bittere Golden Ale van 8,1 vol.% die op vat zo succesvol is dat de vraag naar een variante op fles toeneemt. Kapittel-abdijbieren Naast Hommelbier scoort Leroy Breweries ook met de kenmerkende Kapittel-abdijbieren die in de zestiger jaren van de twintigste eeuw werden gelanceerd. Na de zware, donkere Kapittel Prior (9 vol.%) volgde de Tripel Abt (10 vol.%), die vooral in het bui- Danny Dieussart en Karel Leroy klinken met Hommelbier op de toekomst van Leroy Breweries, de nieuwe naam en positionering van het samenwerkingsverband tussen de brouwerijen Het Sas en Van Eecke. tenland wordt gesmaakt. De roodbruine Pater (6 vol.%), de donkere, gedeeltelijk met wintergerst gebrouwen Dubbel (7,5 vol.%) volgden nadien. De toenemende belangstelling voor blonde bieren leidde tot het ontstaan van de Kapittel Blond (6,5 vol.%). In de hopstreek van Zuid West-Vlaanderen, aan de kust en in Brugge is Hommelbier sterk aanwezig. Met Hommelbier, onze Kapittel abdijbieren en andere bieren scoren wij buiten West- Vlaanderen vooral in de bierspeciaalzaken. Ook andere, vaak bij het brede publiek minder bekende bieren zoals Watou s Witbier (5 vol.%), Paulus Oud Bruin (5 vol.%) of Stout Leroy (5 vol.%) behoren tot de klassiekers binnen het aanbod en worden niet zelden internationaal geprezen omwille van hun natuurlijk en kwalitatief smaakpalet. Met onze speciaalbieren zijn wij vrij goed vertegenwoordigd van gans Europa, tot in Amerika en Azië treedt Danny Dieussaert bij. www CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL

22 BIEREN Blanche de Namur in Vlaanderen, Corsendonk in Wallonië BRASSERIE DU BOCQ EN BROUWERIJ KEERSMAEKERS ZETTEN IN OP SYNERGIE GEERT VAN LIERDE In de aanloop naar het 160-jarig bestaan in 2018 zet du Bocq in op synergie met Corsendonk, de drankenhandel van de familie Keersmaekers die einde vorig jaar de Waalse brouwerij verwierf. Concreet worden bieren zoals Blanche de Namur sterker gepositioneerd in Vlaanderen en maken de Corsendonk-abdijbieren hun intrede in Wallonië. Brasserie du Bocq startte in 1858 toen Martin Belot in Purnode voor het eerst een winterbier brouwde in zijn boerderij. De ligging in het brongebied van de Bocq, waarin ook de bronwaters van Spontin hun oorsprong vonden, is kwalitatief een enorme troef. Tafelbier en zware bieren in uiteenlopende stijlen werden gebrouwen. Een eerste succes volgde met het bruine hogegistingsbier La Gauloise in Kort na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werden de landbouwactiviteiten stopgezet en werd de familiebrouwerij een naamloze vennootschap. Door de integratie van Brasserie Centrale in Marbaix-La-Tour in 1967 werd het gamma uitgebreid met Saison Regal, waarop de in 2013 gelanceerde Saison 1858 is geïnspireerd. Doorheen de jaren investeerde de brouwerij volop in modernisering van haar infrastructuur en in haar aanwezigheid op buitenlandse markten. Dankzij haar vakmanschap en voortdurende aandacht voor kwaliteitszorg ontpopte Brasserie du Bocq zich tot 01 Voor Jef Keersmaekers, die hier samen een toonaangevende partner voor klinkt met Dimitri Delcourt, betekent derden die een eigen biermerk het een opnieuw aanknopen met de wilden verdelen. Zo ontstond in brouwers traditie in zijn familie ook de samenwerking met Jef Keersmaekers voor het brouwen van de Corsendonk-abdijbie- 02 Brasserie du Bocq en de dranken handel ren. Aanvanke lijk werd alleen de Brouwerij Corsendonk zetten in op Corsendonk Agnus bij du Bocq synergiën om hun merken wederzijds gebrouwen; uiteindelijk werden sterker te positioneren alle Corsendonk-bieren in Purnode gebrouwen is overigens ook het jaartal waarin du Bocq startte met het brouwen van Deugniet, een bier dat enkele jaren geleden werd geherlanceerd in samenwerking met Brouwerij Keersmaekers. In navolging van een management buy-out liet de familie Belot de brouwerij een tiental jaar geleden gefaseerd over aan toenmalig directeur Francis De Raedt, geruggensteund door de familie Keersmaekers. Het eerste samenwerkingsakkoord werd in 2010 ondertekend. Daarna werden de aandelen stapsgewijze overgenomen tot in september 2015 de laatste optie werd gelicht en de familie Keersmaekers volledig eigenaar werd van de brouwerij. Door de overname is Keersmaekers voortaan een belangrijke speler op zowel de Vlaamse als de Waalse biermarkt. Zeker aan Vlaamse zijde kan Brouwerij Corsendonk zijn horeca-zaken en -klanten nu een bier voorstellen in vrijwel elk segment. Met Blanche de Namur beschikt men over een witbier, Kriek Belgique en Dubbel Kriek zijn twee fruitbieren en daar bovenop komt nog een voortreffelijke Excelsior-pils die door de brouwmeesters van du Bocq werd ontwikkeld. Brouwerstraditie hersteld Voor mij is het een terug aanknopen met de brouwerstraditie van weleer, zegt Jef Keersmaekers die het bedrijf leidt met zijn zonen Stefan en Michel. Brouwerij Keersmaekers werd in 1906 opgericht in Oud-Turnhout en was vooral bekend om zijn zachte, bruine Pater van zowat 3,5 vol.%, en een goed gehopt licht alcoholisch bier. Toen de pilsbieren begin jaren vijftig doorbraken en er nog amper interesse was voor speciaalbieren hebben de brouwerij gesloten en zijn wij ons vanaf 1953 gaan positioneren als drankenhandel. Wanneer de speciaalbieren en streekbieren einde jaren zeventig begin jaren tachtig herontdekt werden, hebben wij in 1982 Corsendonk gelanceerd. We lieten het bier bij derden brouwden, maar ik eigenlijk ben ik altijd een brouwer in hart en nieren geweest. Het opnieuw aanknopen met het brouwersambacht, weliswaar door het verwerven van Brasserie du Bocq in Purnode, is een mooi eerherstel. Het is een brouwerij die inzet op kwaliteitsbieren die kiest voor bieren CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL 2017

23 met een eigen karakter, verschillend van andere bieren in gelijkaardige segmenten. Met du Bocq staan wij niet alleen aan de vooravond van de 160e verjaardag van de brouwerij, maar ook aan die van een mooie toekomst, aldus nog de gepassioneerde brouwer uit de Antwerpse Kempen, daarin meteen bijgetreden door Dimitri Delcourt, algemeen directeur van Brasserie du Bocq. ren van de productie voor derden. Wij brouwen ondertussen nog wel voor Super des Fagnes, La Ramée en Queue de Charrue. De synergie met Brouwerij Corsendonk moet ons toelaten om door te groeien naar een jaarproductie van hl. Ter voorbereiding daarvan hebben wij de gist- en lagercapaciteit reeds uitgebreid. Tegen 2019 hopen wij aan de rand van Purnode een nieuwe bottelarij met aanpalende lagertanks en distributieplatform te bouwen. Het bier zal dan vanuit de brouwerij met een ondergrondse pijpleiding naar de enkele honderden meters verderop gelegen nieuwe site worden gestuwd. Omdat Brasserie du Bocq niet beschikt over eigen horecazaken uitgezonderd het recent heropende Les Papilles in het nabijgelegen Evrehailles werd het leeuwendeel van de jaarproductie tot nog toe succesvol geëxporteerd. Topbestemmingen zijn onder andere Italië, Frankrijk en Nederland gevolgd door de Verenigde Staten en Rusland. Maar ook in Spanje, Zwitserland, Finland, Australië, Japan, China, Zweden en Brazilië vind je de bieren van Brasserie du Bocq. Recent werd overigens voor het eerst bier verscheept naar Congo. Vanaf dit jaar wil de brouwerij zich ook manifesteren in de ontluikende bierregio die Zuid-Oost-Azië en Indië worden evenals in Zuid-Amerika. Gezamenlijke merkenstrategie Wij zetten nu volop in op synergie tussen onze activiteiten en die van Brouwerij Corsendonk en het de ontwikkeling van een gezamenlijke merkenstrategie. Beide sites blijven evenwel bestaan en er wordt ook geïnvesteerd in Purnode. Concreet houdt de synergie in dat wij, vanuit Purnode, de Corsendonk-abdijbieren gaan introduceren en positioneren in Wallonië en dat in de plaats van de St. Benoit-bieren. Brouwerij Corsendonk gaat dan weer onze wereldwijd gelauwerde Blanche de Namur sterker uitpakken in Vlaanderen. Daarnaast handhaven wij sterke, eerder regionaal aanwezige merken zoals Deugniet en Tempelier in Vlaanderen en La Gauloise en Triple Moine in Wallonië. Die aanpak moet ons toelaten om als brouwerij verder te groeien met de eigen merken, geeft Dimitri Delcourt aan. De voorbije tien jaar hebben wij onze productie meer dan verdubbeld tot hl in Daarin bedraagt het aandeel van de eigen merken nu zo n hl omdat wij pas enkele jaren geleden zijn gestart met het vermindewww.bocq.be www BREWED IN BELGIUM ANNO 1858 Une bière brassée avec savoir se déguste avec sagesse Bier met liefde gebrouwen, drink je met verstand CAFÉ & BISTRO FEBRUARI-MAART-APRIL

From euromat.org

General information

The Belgian Trade Association for the Coin Machine Industry (UBA) was founded in 1958. UBA defends the interests of operators, manufacturers and distributors of automatic amusement machines in Belgium and negotiates on behalf of its members with federal and local authorities. UBA provides its members with relevant information on the gaming industry. UBA is also the editor of a bimonthly magazine "UBA-Revue" which is sent free of charges to all its members. For advertising rates and mechanical details contact the UBA secretariat.

Key figures

Companies in the industry : about 200 
Total turnover : ± 327.600 EUR

Number of machines (official figures for 2006)
AWP	19.737
Amusement	25.585
Jukeboxes	1.144
Largest operators
Dongiovanni & Co	911 machines
Olympian Games sa	420 machines
Tony Rus Industries	1.800 machines
Unibox - Seeben Group	2.384 machines
Wimi Group	4.553 machines

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From: Corrine Barchik <raycore@epix.net>

Subject: Re: Dixieland Bingo:

To: "Danny Leach" <bingopinballs@yahoo.com>

Date: Sunday, May 30, 2010, 7:01 AM

So the yellow Dixieland Manual in your picture, as well as the manual I have were only made for IGT Dixielands correct?

The IGT manual has fold out layouts of the search discs, where the regular manual listed on http://bingo.cdyn.com does not.

Si vous désirez des informations sur ce bingo, vous pouvez me contacter par mail: philippe@sportvelo.be

.Après six bingo's MYSTIC LINES, Bally a voulu sortir un jeu tout à fait nouveau: le jeu de la roue. Les numéros étaient arrangés en cercle et un disque pouvait tourner à l'intérieur de celui-ci afin d'amener les numéros dans des zones colorées; Ce ne fit pas un succès retentissant, car après son successeur, le MAGIC RING, ce concept disparu pour toujours.

Le roll-over button n'avait pas tout à fait la même fonction dans les autres bingo's; Bally a insérer des flèches lumineuses entre chaque niveau d'extension de temps, de sorte que vous deviez toucher trois fois le roll-over-button pour augmenter l'extension de temps (mais sur un playfied 20 trous, il y avait souvent des billes retour, de sorte que l'on passait souvent sur les roll-over-button !).

A première vue, le jeu semble avoir trois niveaux de gain, mais ce n'est pas du tout comme les autres jeux avec lignes colorées. Par exemple, si vous avez un 3 en vert qui paie 3 crédits, vous déplacer la roue dans le rouge et vous avez alors 6 crédits en plus, soit 9 au total. C'st alors que commence vraiment le jeu risqué, car vous pouviez alors choisir de faire payer ou risquer le quitte ou double. Si vous étiez audacieux et que vous choisissiez le double (pour payer 18 crédits dans notre exemple), vous aviez alors une nouvelle part avec 3 billes et d'office le A,B,C,D,E. Vous deviez alors mettre seulement deux billes dans la même couleur pour gagner et vous pouviez alors choisir de faire payer ou de faire un deuxième et dernier quitte ou double (pour payer 36 crédits dans notre exemple). Si vous étiez alors chanceux, dès qu'il avait une 2ème bille dans la même couleur, le paiement ce faisait directement (sans action sur le bouton 'R') car le jeu était fini.

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Advancing odds       Colored lines              Double or nothing        Gold button               Advancing features D or N

Extended time             Roll-over-button               Pick-a-play buttons                      Pick-a-play buttons

My name is Benjamin Lee Barchik, but my friends call me Ben. I am probably the youngest binger here, because I am only 23! I have always had an interest in Bingo/six card machines because of my uncles. As kids and teenagers growing up in the 1970’s they had fond memories of playing six card machines in Wilkes Barre, PA. My uncles would tell me stories of how they always enjoyed playing the machines, and winning money.

Their stories created a bingo spark inside me, and so I was on the lookout for preferably cheap six card machines. I was in luck to find a person that lived close to me who had a where-house full of not only six cards but pinball machines as well, although most were in partially working condition. I contacted him and bought eight bingo machines off him, two High Flyers, two Shoot a Lines, Dixieland, Ticker Tape, Stock Market, and hybrid High Flyer.( as discussed later on) The machine were sold to me at very reasonable prices. I got a few of my cousins to help me cart the games down three flights of stairs to a rented U-Haul van. I can tell you that we all deserved milkshakes and cheeseburgers after all that work!

I new nothing about six card machines, but as luck would have it, one of my uncles worked for an amusement company near my home. I asked him for his help and he graciously obliged. He showed me how the game worked, as well as the logic behind it. Originally, I was afraid of using the soldering gun, for fear I would do something wrong to the game, or even burn myself. But after all the soldering I had to do on the six card machines, I am not longer afraid and would rate myself as quite proficient at it. If not for my uncle helping me out, there is no way I would have bought those machines. So I would like to say a big bingo thank you to Uncle Steve.

I’m sure all of you bingers know the different hack jobs that people did on these six card machines, well my games were no exception. Some of the hacks, were easy to undue but some were rather difficult. The easy hacks to undue were the search wipers, which had tape on them to prevent the game finding winners. However some of the other hacks, still have me bewildered, but hopefully some of you bingers can help me out. To date, my uncle and I have got Dixieland, both High Flyers, Ticker Tape, and one Shoot a Line to work well.

As a side note, I am still kicking myself for throwing away the original bingo balls that came with my game. The balls were stainless steel, but I didn’t know that at the time because they were so badly marked up and filthy.

Here are the pictures taken. They are of my hybrid High Flyer, which was one of the many six card machines I purchased. I know that the person whom I bought the games off, had them on route in the Harrisburg area for a long time until the early 90’s whereupon he stored them away. I did not ask about this machine, so that is all the history I can give you. All I remember is that he had two or three games like this one, but they were so beat that they were not work taking. Danny told me that these machines were sent down into New Orleans, Texas, and Mexcio for trials but no other information is know about them.

You can see the Spanish wording on the playfield and the cards inside the back-box. There were stickers over the Spanish, where the wording is that tells you to roll over the target to light the Super Line or the Four Corners. The stickers were disgusting, so I pealed them off, but to my surprise, there was the Spanish underneath.

I have two hybrid back-box heads, and you can see the hack that was preformed on the second head. I believe that the multi play coil is completely wired out of the game, however someone added a stepper unit, as well as a coil controlling a pair of contacts. The wiring looks so neat around where the multi play coil used to be, that I tend to think it was factory made that way. However, I am mostly certain that the stepper was added later. I don’t know if you can tell by the pictures, but if you have any idea why this was done, then by all means please contact me. Thanks for reading, Enjoy!

Bingo Alan Email

Thanks for writing. My history with these games started in 1981, just about the time I got associated with Phil. My knowledge of these games came from Phil. I've found the stories about players and the location proprietors the most interesting along with the ways operators got around the flood of regulations that aimed at these machines. It was interesting how officials tried to define these games. The Sea Fair game is simply a Big Show with odds no higher than 160 to comply with the laws. This glass was done by Bally specifically for Washington State, which is Phil's home state. His history started with the one ball games. These games are of the most interest to him. I worked with him on the route. We had some colorful players, of which the stories still amuse us. Phil has amassed a great deal of knowledge and I would surely consider him to be the greatest authority on these games, but it is hard to pin him down to take the time to talk about the games. Russ has spent a great deal of time with him, which is great because Russ has done so much for the hobby. I would be interested in the Hooker interview myself, as I know very little about him and have always wondered about him. I only recently learned that he passed way. Keep me posted I'll look forward to hearing from you. Keep up the good work.

Thanks  ALAN

Hardware:

3/8"-16 (16 threads per inch) x length, where length is:"
  2-3/4" for metal legs (std pinball size)
  3-1/2" for wood legs

length not counting the head of the bolt, which is supposed to be an acorn head.

for wooden legs, also use washers on the bolts.

Legs:

a. your county fair legs where post-1957 and were metal, these were designed to last longer and better hold the wieght of the pin

b. at their tallest point, the back near the cabinet, from the bottom of the wood to the top, the wooden legs are 30 1/4 inches tall

c. the trick to the bingos is to have the bottom rail/edge of the lower cabinet level with the floor, most pins are apprx. 24 1/4 off the floor

d. so to point, it doesn't really matter what leg length you use as long as all 4 legs are the same - you could adjust this if desired

e. so to point, if the bottom of your lower cabinet is level with the floor, the backglass s/be straight if you have 4 of the same legs

f.. the metal legs are part number p-4052

g. the wooden legs are part number ca-350-1

Bingo computer ap designer information

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Bingo Continental Lucky 7 (GAA) en/et Golden Gate (Sirmo)

Beide bingo's zijn in perfecte staat, perfect werkend.
Etat parfait

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Bingo Continental Lucky 7 (GAA)
* Als nieuw: nieuwe rubbers, speelveld, backglass enz perfect.
* Etat neuf: caoutchous, backglass, etc..
* Actuele bingo met 4 spellen: Six cards, One Ball, Tiercé, Lucky 7
* Bingo actuel, 4 jeux: Six cards, One Ball, Tiercé, Lucky 7
* Werkt op euro
* En euros
* Optimaal ingesteld voor privégebruik, bingo kan niet in code vallen.
* Réglage optimal pour usage privé, pas de codes erreurs etc.

Golden Gate (Sirmo) 
* In zeer goede staat: nieuwe rubbers, perfect speelveld, enz.
* Très bon état
* 4 spellen: Six cards, Penalty, 3 numbers, Super Ball
* 4 jeux: Six cards, Penalty, 3 numbers, Super Ball
* Werkt op euro
* En euros
* Optimaal ingesteld voor privégebruik, bingo kan niet in code vallen.
* Réglage optimal pour usage privé, pas de codes erreurs etc.

Prijs is voor de 2 bingo's.
Le prix est pour les 2 bingo's

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Bingo of one-ball

Deze spelautomaat is in drankgelegenheden te vinden die daarvoor een vergunning hebben.

De speler dient één of meerdere balletjes in de gaten op het horizontale vlak van het spel zien te krijgen. Daardoor kunnen bepaalde patronen gevormd worden.

Om te spelen worden er munten ingebracht. De minimuminzet is 0.25€, de maximuminzet 6.25€. De spelduur bedraagt enkele minuten.

Bingo of one-ball blijkt dikwijls erg verslavend te zijn, gezien het grote aantal bingospelers dat deelneemt aan bijeenkomsten van zelfhulpgroepen. Het spel is gemakkelijk toegankelijk in talrijke café's. Tijdens het spelen wordt er dikwijls ook stevig gedronken. Heel wat spelers hebben bij dit spel de illusie dat ze invloed kunnen uitoefenen, door bijvoorbeeld de knoppen op een bepaalde manier in te duwen.

Dit spel wordt vaak door jongeren gespeeld, terwijl je minstens 18 jaar moet zijn. Geleidelijk zullen er elektronische identiteitskaartlezers worden geïnstalleerd op de nieuwe bingotoestellen, om de leeftijd van de spelers beter te kunnen controleren.

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In the previous essay I went through a rather rigorous exercise to demonstrate the basic chance of winning at the bingo machines. If you haven’t read it yet, do that before you go here.

Now we know what we’re up against. What do we do about it?

I set out to try to write about how to properly play the machines. What that means, more specifically, is how to beat the machines. The game is the gamble, and proper play can only be defined as winning play. On the bingos, that meant only one thing – cashing out for more than you put in.

Now, keep in mind that it has been many, many years since these machines have been operated anywhere near where I could actually play them the way they were intended to be played – with cash on the line in a pool hall, bar, bowling alley, or casino. So, I would say that I’m probably going to leave some things out. The passage of time may have eroded my memory some. You might ask what makes me worthy of writing an article like this. Well, I used to make a bit of coin playing the bingos when I was a young man, and I have some recollection of what I used to do. That, and I volunteered, so what you see is what you get.At the risk of sounding like an old man living in the past (which may be true to some extent), I think the best way for me to explain how to win is to tell you how I did it. There’s not one way, I’m sure, but this is the only one I know, and it is the story I have to tell.

If you read the rambling about the probabilities on the machines, you are aware that putting extra coins in is a bit of a folly, at least to start. If you can’t win with the most favorable odds, you certainly will not win with more money on the line and the house advantage even greater. Again, I know that most players never really calculated the odds in such detail. But you didn’t have to, because a simple assessment would have been enough. Put one coin in, and you win 4 games for a three-bagger. That pays back 3 to 1. Put two coins in and win 6 games for the same hit. That’s 2 to 1. Put three coins in and you’ll win 8 games, a 1.67 to 1 proposition. That deterioration of odds is what killed most of the bankrolls, and players allowed it to happen because the machines were designed to suck you into chasing uncertain events.

So the way to begin to have a chance was to play ONE COIN AT A TIME! But you still have to beat that natural house advantage, and the only way to do that was through skillful play. Guess what! The best way to get better was to practice, and by playing one coin at a time, most of your session was spent playing the balls, not banging nickels.

I must admit, I certainly didn’t start out as this type of player. The flashing lights, the fun of moving the screens or whirling the numbers, the enticement of the big hit – all of these things provoked me to make the same mistakes everyone else was making. And, of course, I was losing.

I had the good fortune of meeting an older guy named Mike when I was about 19 and in college. I remember his last name, but won’t disclose it here – he may not want anyone to know about his bingo playing, and a search engine might turn it up; I haven’t seen him for many, many years. Mike was from New Orleans and moved to Denver, where he took a job as an electrical engineer at Martin Marietta’s big plant south of town. He had an unfortunate relationship with his wife, and they divorced. I think Mike lost his focus and quit or was fired from his job (he claimed to have taken a “requested layoff”). At any rate, he started turning up every day at the bowling alley to play, and we became friends. Mike took up the battle against me; he would constantly chastise me for “playing stupid”. He pointed out the odds to me, and demonstrated the wisdom of the whole thing by winning, and winning….and winning. He used to say “stay even on the three baggers, make all the money on the four and five-baggers.”

A guy named Dave had schooled Mike on the bingos back in New Orleans. He told the story of how Dave had put himself through Tulane University, I think it was, by playing the bings – no jobs, no scholarships, no visible means of support. (Amazingly enough, some time later this story was verified in a small strip casino in Las Vegas, where I met a pit boss named Spitter who knew Dave as well.) Anyway, Dave taught Mike about the odds, and more! He taught him to overcome the rotten house take and make real money, and Mike passed that on to me, his young protégé. So, credit where credit is due…

This particular establishment always had three machines running. I think when I first showed my face there they had a Surf Club, a Big Time, and a Key West. These were older machines than I was used to. The police busted the pool hall I cut my teeth in, and smashed the Silver Sails and Carnival Queen I used to play in high school. (To my chagrin, I witnessed the fiasco on the nightly news.) As it turned out, I liked the Big Time best. One of the things the Bally engineers were kind enough to do on the machines manufactured from late 1956 until 1963 was provide the player with bunched numbers on the playfield – i.e., numbers with a proximity to each other on the board and the backglass as well. Take a peek at the Big Time backglass grid (photo from Phil Hooper – I didn’t ask, hope he doesn’t mind!):

Look at the left column of that grid, and notice the 1 and 2 are right next to each other. And look just above them. The 9 and 10 are sitting there, and at the bottom, the 11. This is like a gift to the player who was smart enough to take advantage of it. A double and a triple on the same line! Why is this so beneficial? It provides a margin of error, a target area; it gave the player an immediate focus, even before the first ball was shot. This was the line that needed to be attacked. Here’s another photo I stole from Phil Hooper. This one shows the playfield of the Big Time. I put it in here just on the off chance someone reading this isn’t familiar with the hole layout.

Anyway, as you can see, the 1 and 2 are at the upper left side of the board, and the 9, 10 and 11 are almost at the top, and at the left to middle. The first shot, then, had to target the 1. I had more success shooting the left side with a very strong serve – it simply had to hit the rebound rubber, bounce back against the gate stop, and back again to the left side. Trying to finesse the ball without a bounce was lunacy. The hard serve I used was accomplished with a “thumb shot”, where the right hand pulled the plunger back in place and held it, while the fingers of the left hand were placed behind the lockdown bar and the left thumb applied firm forward pressure. Once the right hand releases, the plunger moves forward very quickly, propelling the ball much faster than otherwise possible. The ball will be heading in the right direction, toward the area we’re interested in. If the ball misses the 1-hole, there’s still the 2 right next to it, or those other numbers right below. With a lot of practice, I was able to hit that 1 shot a high percentage of the time. (Sorry, I wasn’t so anal as to keep the actual stats.)

The line was the 2-hole; without it, no winners. It had to be hit. But how can that happen with any consistency? Although the hole is in the area of the serve, there’s no way you can rely on luck at all and expect to win. When I learned the answer from Mike, it was a Revelation of the First Magnitude. Just shoot the 1 again! That ball plugging it now becomes your ally. When the shot can’t fall in that hole a second time, use a slam to kick the ball into the 2. (I’ll explain how to execute the slam later.)

Sounds easy enough so far. Now what? This is a no-brainer! Why change a proven formula if you don’t have to? And you don’t. Just shoot the 1 again! This is getting monotonous. But now, when the ball can’t fall into the plugged 1-hole, just let it drop down onto the post just above the 8. A hard well-timed hit will send it above the 9, toward the 10 and 11. Either one of those numbers is a winner. The 9 can be had by nudging the ball off of the post just above and to the right of the it. The ball will drop in from the right side.

Even though the 9 won’t provide any immediate gratification, once it’s plugged, it makes the four-bagger a rather easy grab. If you can hit the 9 again, that same old slam shot will drop the ball right in the 10 hole, and that’s a winner. If the first ball missed any of these targets and somehow managed to slip away, it was generally best to just forget about it and keep focusing on the same line. I learned to never, ever chase low probability events unless the payout was worthwhile. Persistence, resolve, repetition, and a willingness to grind (along with the being able to put up with the derision of other “players”) paid off – “Big Time”. Now, I am not saying that the only line to play would be the one I’m talking about here, but I am saying that a good player had to have a plan of attack right out of the chute. Suppose this Big Time machine had a right roll bias (where the machine tilted slightly to the right). Which line do you shoot? Take a look at the backglass and the playfield again, and the answer may be obvious. The 7, 18, and 22 are all on the far right side of the board, and line up at the bottom of column 2. The problem here is the four-bagger requires the 19, and that’s on the left side. And without the four and fivers, it was almost impossible to make money.

It should be apparent that a left-side roll is really an advantage to the player on the Big Time machine, and we will see in a later article that this was always the case on magic screen type games. Therefore, another Immutable Law: select and learn to play the machine that offered the highest win probability, and don’t fight the machine. If the machine rolled to the right, don’t waste your money. If the machine rolled true, don’t waste your money. Find a machine with a left-side bias. I guess a lot of old bingo players are probably thinking this was sort of a cheat, taking advantage of a situation. But the operators were the ones who set the machines and the players had to work within those parameters. No one forced anyone to play any machine at all, so the shifty guys who ran the machines were working a balancing act – maximizing throughput to maximize profits. Put in percentage terms again, let’s assume a fair machine, the 30% take and 100 coins through – expected earnings of 30 coins. Now look at another machine with a left-side bias. More play, more winners, say a 15% take and 500 coins through. Expected earnings of 75 coins. What would you do if it were you?

Now you understand why it wasn’t difficult to find the left-side roll. It made bad players think they were better than they were. But it helped good players become winners.

Obviously, just learning how to serve the ball and picking a machine with a decent roll wouldn’t make you a winner in the end. Most people think about playing a bingo in terms of “body English”. Sort of cajoling the ball to land where you wanted it. I can think of only a very few players I knew who didn’t do this. And since most players were losers, the approach was consistently proven to be incorrect. To win on a regular basis, the player needed to learn how to hit the machine – and I do mean hit it hard. Learning to do that was easier said than done. Bingo pinball machines were designed with plenty of tilt trips built into the electronics to foil the aggressive players. But without an aggressive attitude, without attacking the machine…no chance. Most of these switches didn’t really come into play unless you did something bordering assault. There was one, however, that caused the player grief.

On the left side of the cabinet, at the front of the machine, there is a pendulum hanging in a ring. Movement of the machine gets the pendulum to swinging, and once it touches that ring, you’re history. A circuit makes, the tilt switches trip, and game over. As a player, the idea was to be as violent as possible without disturbing the internal pendulum enough to crap out. How? Hit the machine fast and straight ahead. Don’t give the pendulum an opportunity to start swinging around. Get your business done and over with in a hurry.

Earlier, I explained how to make the “thumb” serve. The lockdown bar was an important part of that technique, and now that the ball was in play, it was just as important. My technique – and, again, I don’t claim this is the best or only – was to place my left and right hands symmetrically on the front of the machine, with my pinkie fingers about 2 inches from the corners. All four fingers of both hands were placed behind the lockdown, with slight pressure, almost trying to pull the machine forward. My palm was arched just above the bar, and my thumbs were resting on the front of the bar at about a 45-degree angle as you looked down. The heels of both palms rested on the front of the bar. Both shoulders were positioned directly behind the hands, so that a straight line could be drawn from the wrists to the elbows.

The trick was to develop speed and power from this position. To smack the machine, the palms didn’t have to come back more than ¾ of an inch, and then extremely quickly through to the lockdown. And I do mean quickly, because the slower you hit that bar, the less effective your play and the more chance of swinging that old pendulum. This sounds a lot easier than it was. I paid a high price from a physical standpoint doing this. My palms had ridiculous calluses. My elbows occasionally ached. Who knew pinball could be such an athletic event? (Okay, that’s a stretch…).

So, with practice you can bang pretty good without the dreaded tilt. Now the shot I talked about earlier can be mastered – the “slam” shot. If you can hit the machine and get a solid movement on the playfield without busting out, the next step is working on the timing og the hit. It did no good to just bash the machine randomly. The ball had to be in a manipulative position – meaning it was in contact with another object.

The slam was a hard hit when the ball was in contact with another ball already resting in a hole. Once the skill of violent, no tilt play was mastered, this was really an extremely effective and rather easy shot to do. Just smash the machine when the ball is rolling on the other ball. A good player could wait until the live ball was positioned at the proper angle on the dead ball, just like a pool player angles the object ball with the cue ball.

Obviously, the hard hit can be used for far more than this. Effectively using posts, rubbers, and springs gave the accomplished player a real edge. hat if the ball gets out of control? Every bingo player has experienced the occasional serve that just gets going to fast. The idea is to slow that ball down, and take command as a player. How? Use the same hard hit, but this time wait until the ball is just above an object to effect the play. Now the machine is moving backwards, returning to its set position, when the contact is made. This kills the momentum, and allows the player to regain the upper hand. Stops the ball cold. In fact, that’s why we called this the “kill” shot.

So that’s it in a nutshell – everything you needed to know to get started in beating the bingos. This, and about two or three hundred hours of practice. A tip of the cap to my friend Mike and every other player I ever learned from. It was great while it lasted – getting paid to play the pins!

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Hello, My name is Dr Bud Morrow, I have been dubbed "the largest seller of collectible Bally Bingo Pinball Machines" on the net. It is strictly a "hobby" to me and I DO NOT sell to game operators who might place these old gambling machines back out in public in violation of some state laws. I grew up playing these old games in Ft. Smith, Arkansas in the late 50's and early 60's. I have grown to love the hobby and am ALWAYS looking for warehouses full of stored bingo's to buy and restore!! I am (55) now and am retired and have a doctorate in Naturopathic Oncology. I have had cancer and got over it successfully using "alternative therapy". I also sell on eBay under the user ID "Bingosrus". My contact number(s) are:home->(870)426-5244 / cell->(417)230-0012.

Hi, I was just surfing the Internet and came across your site.  I must say it is very well done.  I have been a fan of bingo machines for the last 25 years. During that time I bought out all the old operators in 4 states (Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana)  I've had over 700 machines and shopped out at least 500 of them.  Sold them to the home market up here in the Seattle area for the last 20 years. I also worked with another collector/designer up here and we tried to out do one another with designing games.  We first started by making an extra OK position on the screen games.  But the best for each of us is: he made an OK option on a Bally Beach Time.  Designed all the circuitry, built the steppers, etc.  My call to fame was putting revolving numbers behind a Silver Sails screen game.  Using parts from a turning corners game, I designed a way for 4 numbers to rotate behind the screen.  This was activated by a stepper that lit up the letters in "Sails."  Just like the red letters in "Silver." The circuitry was also incorporated into the proportioning circuits, so it worked with the reflex unit.  I also wired it into part of the red letter games.

Anyway, I could go on and on.  Couple of things I wanted to point out about your site.  The Sea Fair glass is a converted Big Show glass.  These games were only run in the Seattle area.  We have a yearly event called Sea Fair and this was an attempt to please the city fathers.  Also in King County, where Seattle is located, you could only pay off odds up to 160.  That is why on the glass they only go up to 160.  Other games in Seattle had to have the higher numbers painted out. Also, it is a small thing, but on your Designers page the photo you show is not the Reflex unit.  Your photo is of the mixer and spotting disc unit.  The Reflex unit is located on the lower part of the back door and is a small square unit with copper wipers on one side, and 2 small steppers on the other.

Keep up the good work.  If I can ever be of any help, give me a call at:

Richard Gerlitz
206-243-5681

Bingo tilt problem

Many Bally bingos have a design that causes a tilt if the coin switch is activated too slowly. This is intended so that it will tilt when someone tries to cheat using a string or wire to activate the switch instead of a coin. This often is a problem in home use when you're not using coins and just tripping the switch with your finger. To deactivate this 'feature' bend the top switch piece on #4D of the Control Unit up so that the switch cannot close. #4D is the 4th switch stack from the left on the Control Unit.

BV-01

Specifications:
Features:
◎Insert coin will increase specific score in Credit.
◎x1 & x10 : bet to select your odds and chances.
◎Extra : buy the 6th ball to gain chances after finish all five balls.
◎Odds : try to get higher score after you win.
◎Take Score : transfer score you win into credit.
◎Payout : Terminate your game and get back your coins.
Dimensions(cm):W67*D121*H150

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◎Insert coin will increase specific score in Credit.
◎x1 & x10 : bet to select your odds and chances.
◎Extra : buy the 6th ball to gain chances after finish all five balls.
◎Take Score : transfer score you win into credit.
◎Payout : Terminate your game and get back your coins.
Dimensions(cm):W67*D121*H150

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To:bingopinballs@yahoo.com

Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 7:42 AM

Danny picked up both machines last week. TROPICS and SHOWBOAT. Both are broke almost finished
with TROPICS a lot wrong with it. Can't believe that we got are old machine back after 26 years. Inside I had it marked

July 1989. SHOWBOAT I didn't even put together yet front part of the cabinet was busted into when I'm finished with

it I'll send you pictures. Only need 3 more RODEO, BRAZIL and TAHITI. I can not even find a picture of a SHOWBOAT

anywhere.

BingoJoes Modified Cabinets

Danny, attached are some pics of the Roller Derby, and also some pics of another game I pieced together I call Show King. The Roller Derby, aside from the base, has several other modifications I did, I converted it to take quarters and give 5 credits per coin, this was done in pretty much the same manner as Bally used on their later games. AN added cam to the timer cams to pulse the replay register step up, and an added relay to make all the neccessary connections. When you drop in a quarter the game cycles (thats 1 credit used) and 4 credits are added to the register. Later I also decided to make it a payout game, I installed an old quarter payout unit from a Bally console slot. I set this up so that when credits are accumulated on the register, the player can push an added button (left of coin return) and the game will begin deducting credits (as with a replay reset) but as the register steps down, every 5th step the payout mechanism spits out a quarter. I accomplished this by adding a 2 lobe cam to the end of the replay register shaft, so that every 5th step of the register, a switch on the cam powers the payout mech to drop a coin into the chute under the cabinet. I can explain in more depth if you would like. The backglass is also completely home made from a mirror I cut to size, scraped out the mirroring in the appropriate areas, and printed on paper and glued in all the info in the windows, it was a bit of work but I just wanted to see if I could make a backglass from scratch. The other game, Show King, I made using a Showtime head and cabinet grafting them on to a Turf King (1-ball game) cabinet, and adding a nickel payout unit from an old 1-ball payout game. I did this one so when a player wins credits, rather than the register stepping up, the payout unit is activated instead, actually, I used a jones plug for an adjustment, so the game can be operated as a replay or payout. Notice I altered the backglass with the games new name Show (Showtime) King (Turf King) also. Feel free to post these pics on your site if you wish, with or without my commentary. Enjoy, Later, Joe. PS, I have a butt load of nice original games as well, these 2 were just parts machines I decided to fool with. Wouldnt want you to think I hack up every game I get my hands

Danny, I dont mind at all, but you should be aware (and perhaps add it to the post) that the catalog is about 3 years old now and somewhat outdated. Some of the NOS items in it I have run out of and may never find any more. Also the prices on some items (not all) Ive had to raise because my sources have raised their prices. I would love to send you some pics of the Roller Derby, and wouldnt mind if you put them on your site. That lower cabinet is my own design, it has leg levelers at the front and wheels at the back, making it easy to move. I have a few other unique bingos I created out of spare parts that may interest you. Ill gather together some pics and send them to you. Later, Joe.

Bingokast Miss Bowling Golden

Aangeboden: Bingokast Miss Bowling Golden Prijs: € 650,00

BINGOKAST MISS BOWLING GOLDEN, deze kast is nu ruim 1 jaar in mijn bezit. Absoluut 100% in orde en perfect werkend. Gekocht in België en door vorige eigenaar ingesteld, beveiligingscodes verwijderd en perfect afgesteld. Werkt niet op munten, opwaarderen via drukknop. Ik heb ook nog enkele reservelampjes en een complete set reserverubbers (rubbers die nu in de speelkast zitten zijn ook nog vrij nieuw). Bingokast mag uiteraard geheel vrijblijvend getest worden. (Kast gaat weg omdat ruimte waar deze nu in staat opnieuw zal worden ingericht). Voor vragen of andere informatie, neem gerust vrijblijvend contact op. (LET OP, DIT IS GEEN FLIPPERKAST, MAAR EEN GOKKAST, dit voor degene die niet bekend is met bingokasten).

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Strenge controles op kaartlezers bingokasten

27-10-15, 13.42u - Bron: vtmnieuws.be

Wie op café wil gokken op een bingokast, moet bewijzen dat hij of zij meerderjarig is. Sinds begin deze maand werkt de bingokast namelijk alleen als mensen eerst hun identiteitskaart in een kaartlezer stoppen. Alle bingotoestellen moeten zo'n lezer hebben, iets wat de Kansspelcommissie streng controleert.

Bingolaitteet (nimeltään Cirsa Eurobingo) toimivat siten, että pelaaja (pudotettuaan rahan koneeseen) käynnistää joko suoraan bingon yhdellä (Carton 1) bingoruudukolla ilman mitään lisävoittomahdollisuuksia (paina nappia "Juegue Bingo") tai ostaa lisää ruudukoita (Carton 2 - 6 sekä Carton Extra) numerojärjestyksessä sekä niihin mahdollisia lisäominaisuuksia pelaamalla led-valoilla toteutettua 2 kuvan hedelmäpeliä. Pelaamalla hedelmäpeliä voit saada hedelmäpelivoiton lisäksi ruudukoihin seuraavat lisäominaisuudet:
1. Super Linea: Mikäli saat vähintään 3 osumaa kyseiselle sinisellä pohjavärillä merkitylle linjalle, saat korkeamman voiton kuin muilta linjoilta
2. Paga Diagonal: Myös "vinobingolla" saa voiton
3. Super Corner: Voitto maksetaan myös jos ruudukon kulmanumerot osuvat arvottuihin numeroihin.
4. Carton Extra: Saat ilmaisen lisäruudukon.
Pelattuasi itsellesi haluamasi määrän bingoruudukoita käynnistä bingo "Juegue Bingo" -napilla. Tällöin kone syöttää laukaistavaksesi metallikuulan, jonka laukaiset flipperin tavoin pelikentälle, jossa se osuu johonkin kentällä olevista aukoista. Aukot on suunniteltu siten, että osa niistä on huomattavasti muita helpommin osuttavissa. Mikäli kuula ei osu mihinkään aukkoon saat pelata sen uudelleen.
Pelikierroksella pelataan 5 kuulaa jonka jälkeen automaatti maksaa voiton mikäli bingoruuduko(i)ssa on vähintään 3 PERÄKKÄISTÄ numerovaloa syttyneenä. Päävoitto on 80 / 120 euroa pelattua bingoruudukkoa kohden ja pelipanos 20 / 40 snt per pelattu ruudukko.
Voit yrittää tuplata voittosi myös tässä laitteessa. Mikäli tuplaus menee pieleen voitat bonuksia joita voit käyttää kasvattamaan voittosummia. 1 bonus kasvattaa ruudukon kaikki voitot päävoittoa lukuunottamatta kolminkertaisiksi.

Black pearl

Credit is in Euros. The player can start a game from 25 cents up to 6 Euros. Bigger stakes increases the amount one can win (maximum is 500€ in one game).

The player can replay as long as there are 25 cents left on the credit meter, or redeem the credits for cash from the location.

Notes: This machine uses a Heber Pluto 6 CPU based on a Motorola ColdFire processor.

Bob brague remembers

He's especially pleased with the restoration work he did on the "Home Run" baseball game machine. He bought it at a pinball show because it was a game he remembered playing in Knoebels Grove and Hills Department Store. But when he first bought it, the game wouldn't even turn on. Now it works perfectly, he said. Brague said he also remembers his father playing the "Shoot A Line" bingo pinball machine at the Uptown Coffee Shop on Fourth Street in the mid-1970s. "Being a minor, I wasn't allowed to play the bingo pinball machines back then," he said. "Bingo pinballs were supposed to be for amusement only back then, but some places would secretly pay out in

Bob on the queen games

As you can see the Queen machines were also Bingo related, Bob Ellingson writes: Beauty Contest is a 1950s Bally machine that is known to us old timers as a "Queen machine". This is because it usually had 15 females dressed in sun or bathing suits on the backglass. The game, at the time of release, was rumored to be a slick way for Bally to send repair/replacement parts into various locales for their (then) much maligned Bingo machines. It does not seem like a realistic rumor though, because the games are mechanically bare bones as compared with their Bingo brothers, with little if anything that can be used to repair a Bingo. The game itself is a one-ball game that has no flippers, but instead has 2 strong sling bumpers at the bottom of the playfield arch and a spotter saucer hole (tags number lit) in the center of the playfield. The idea is to light a certain number (operator adjustable) of "queens" and be paid a progressively larger multiple of the cost of the game. Outside of the gambling aspect it gets boring pretty fast, but is a fine example of the unusual pins Bally was into in the 1950s. I do have one in my collection in and would be pleased to answer any questions you might have.

Bob remembers

Man turns pinball hobby into perfect basement hangout

By DANA BORICK, The Associated Press

05/29/2005

Time should have stopped in the 1950s. If it did, Bob Brague Jr. of Loyalsock Township would have the perfect place to hang out: "Bobby's Diner." Brague turned his basement into an authentic replica of a '50s diner, complete with black-and-white tile floor, a Coca-Cola soda machine, pinball machines, a jukebox and candy machines. It all began when Brague began repairing and restoring pinball machines as a hobby."I played these machines as a kid," he said, referring to the games he played as an 8-year-old at the ABC Bowling Alley on Park Avenue. "I am a coin-op addict," he said. "Back then, when the machines 'knocked,' people knew you were a pro and called you a pinball wizard." Brague said repairing pinball machines is not a quick fix. "It can take 40 to 50 hours for one machine," he added. Brague said he is self-taught, learning the repair trade from dealers, "old timers" and the Internet. He attends pinball machine shows in York and Allentown twice a year, he said, where he often finds a good deal. "No one wants them when they're not working," he said. When he gets a machine running, the sound reminds him of the games at Knoebels Grove Amusement Park in Elysburg, Pa. One of his favorite machines is the Bally "Beauty Contest," once dubbed as the "fastest moneymaker ever built." He was pleased to discover that he and Elvis Presley had the same taste in pinball games. During a trip to Graceland he saw a 1975 "Knockout" game that he also owns. Up until the 1960s, machine manufacturers used wood rails on the side until switching to metal in 1961, Brague said. "It's amazing some of the old machines don't have cigarette burns," his wife, LeAnn, said of the machines with wood rails. Brague said people used to smoke and use the rails as their ashtrays until some pinball machine companies started putting cigarette holders on them. Brague said people used to carve their initials on the machines _ but "I never did it." "Some guys like to go hunting, but I'm not into that," he said. Brague said this is his only vice _ he's not into sports, he's not a couch potato and he's not into movies or television shows. He doesn't want to sell his collection _ "it's priceless to me" _ but he's hoping to pass it on to his children. His wife supports his hobby. She said she has no problem with him investing time and money into it. "It keeps the kids home," she said. "We have parties with ice cream and pizza." Brague agreed. "When my kids come down here, they go nuts ... their friends light up like a bulb." After a bad day at work Brague said he likes to go downstairs, play the pinball machines and relax. "That world is a headache," he said, gesturing upstairs. "I'd rather do this than work." His wife agreed. "His mind literally is in the '50s," she said. And being stuck in the 1950s is a bit unusual, considering Brague wasn't born until 1963. Brague has a paper soda jerk Coca-Cola hat made in 1941 in Japan, which is extremely rare, he said.

"This is when things had style and class." He built the diner countertop and booth table with a boomerang-speckled top and chrome on the sides to be completely authentic."I'm not into reproductions," he said.

The jukebox, a green 1955JL Seeberg high fidelity model, only plays the "real stuff," according to Brague. It has a lot of oldies and goodies from artists such as Patsy Cline, his favorite female artist, and Elvis, the "ultimate male artist," along with tunes from Skyliners, Richie Valens, Chuck Berry and The Platters, just to name a few. Brague said the "L" in the model number stands for "lime" because the color green was once considered a jinx. The jukebox tunes can be selected from a 'Wall-O-Matic' wall box on the bar and booth. The music, when played through his United Artist speakers on the ceiling, provides an early version of surround sound. Looking up, old car hubcaps from Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge and Buick are artistically arranged on the ceiling. Brague said he has a 1958 Coca-Cola machine that he restored and rewired so the light works without the compressor running. He even found Coke bottles with caps from the 1950s to stock it for an authentic look. The room includes such details as the sugar cookie-scented candle he lights for guests, the fake doughnuts for sale on the diner counter, and the shade of green paint he painted the walls to be reminiscent of Woolworth's and L.L. Sterns. He has a display of license plates from 1950 to 1958 lining one wall in blue and orange. "They always replaced the plates in March," he said, so police could tell what year the plate was registered just by the color, blue one year, orange the next.His Topper bubble gum machine and 1947 cash register both work, along with his 1938 slot machine. When Peg and Bill's Diner on West Fourth Street closed, he bought their coffee cups, which line the bar, and an old coffee machine, which sits in the corner. Growing up, Brague remembers his parents giving him $2.50 to spend Saturdays at ABC Bowling Alley. He said $2 would go toward bowling and the 50 cents would go to the pinball machines.

"I would starve myself bowling all day just to play the machines," he said. "I would hide when my mom came to pick me up." He's especially pleased with the restoration work he did on the "Home Run" baseball game machine. He bought it at a pinball show because it was a game he remembered playing in Knoebels Grove and Hills Department Store. But when he first bought it, the game wouldn't even turn on. Now it works perfectly, he said. Brague said he also remembers his father playing the "Shoot A Line" bingo pinball machine at the Uptown Coffee Shop on Fourth Street in the mid-1970s. "Being a minor, I wasn't allowed to play the bingo pinball machines back then," he said. "Bingo pinballs were supposed to be for amusement only back then, but some places would secretly pay out in cash."

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Bright light comments

From an ebay seller selling a brightlights backglass:

Measuring 24" x 22" - this Bally Bright Lights Bingo Backglass was Bally's first in-line bingo machine. Bally saw the market for one-ball machines - which they practically owned - drying up due to legislation that specifically identified one-balls as gambling devices. While United's ABC beat Bally to market by a few months, Bally's playfield layout became the standard for bingo's. Game play doesn't get much simpler than this. Deposit one coin/credit per card, and shoot the five balls. If you get three or more in a line, you win. This is also one of the few games that had a manual ball lifter. It didn't matter if you shot all five balls at once...there were no features that depended on you doing something before a certain ball was shot, and there were no extra balls. The payouts were adjustable by the operator using plugs inside the machine. Bally provided different award cards for the operator to display on the playfield. The main adjustement was for the 5-in-line score, which could be as low as 100.

The game type has 6 5x5 bingo cards on the backglass. Most games enable one card per coin/credit guaranteed, but a few enable the additional cards on mystery intervals. Individual numbers light on all enabled cards at the same time, and wins on each card were scored separately, although only the highest winner on each card counted (i.e. if you had two 3-in-line winners on the same card, you got paid for only one. If you had a 3-in-line and a 4-in-line on the same card, you got paid the 4-in-line amount). To encourage maximum coins to be played, the payouts generally increased for successive cards. The max payout for a game is usually only obtainable on card #6.

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GUYMATIC

...is gevestigd in Leuven en plaatst cafeacute games, waaronder bingo s en amusementsspelen. Geldenaaksebaan 448 3 3001 Leuven Belgium tel 32 016 292 200 info@guymatic.be GMT en JGC werken samen. Klik op het logo van JGC en bezoek onze site GMT et JGC collaborent. Cliquez sur le logo JGC et visitez notre site GMT and JGC cooperate. Please click on the JGC logo and visit our...

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CAFESPELEN MARCEL

...Bij Cafspelen Marcel te Lokeren kan u ook terecht voor het kortverhuur van alle amusementsspelen en automaten. Heeft u een familiefeest, bedrijfsfeest of viert u een speciale gelegenheid? Dan bezorgen wij uw gasten een leuke extra dankzij onze vele spelen bingos, flipperkasten, biljarts, kickertafel en zoveel meer Ontdek onze interessante prijzen en leveringsvoorwaarden. Vraag vri...

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BINGO SERVICE

...uw zaak. Goede raad voor mooie opbrengsten Amusementsspelen Een goede keuze aan amusementsspelen zorgt voor een betere sfeer in uw zaak. Geamuseerde mensen blijven langer en consumeren meer. Daarnaast heeft u nog recht op een percentage van de opbrengsten. Vraag onze adviseurs om raad Randapparatuur Hoe meer u kan automatiseren, hoe meer geld uw machines voor u opbrengen. Zaken als...

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JOHN GILLE CO

...In 1988 werd nv JohnGilleCo opgericht. John Gille startte met het plaatsen van amusementsspelen voor caf?s. Aangezien hij het rechtstreeks contact had met de klanten, was ook hij het die de meeste feedback kreeg over tekortkomingen in het ontwerp. Door zelf naar oplossingen te gaan zoeken, was meteen de basis gelegd voor de ontwikkeling van de machines. Na verloop van tijd had dit d...

3690 ZUTENDAAL

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buckey remembers

They were great! My state used to allow 5 cent machines called "Leaders" . They had 3 bingo type card with 30 numbers each. 3 nickels lit up all 3 cards. Line up 5 in a row (vertical,horizontal, diagonal) and you win. The pool hall had trays of nickels - a buck for a stack. Then there were dime machines - "Golden Gate" - "Purple Sail" , etc. where you attempted to poke the pinball into certain numbers. Players would cuss, "lipped out" - "missed a poke" - "tight SOB", etc. Someone, that hit a "smoker" had time to have a cigaret while the machine racked up 500 credits +. About ten years ago the state here legalized video lottery. Cracked down on the old pinball machines and they were all taken out. Video costs a quarter for a keno play that takes ten seconds and you can bet up to 8. It broke a lot guys who you used to play pinball all afternoon for 20 stacks to the tune of losing 200 bucks playing 25 cent keno.

Carioca bingo

THIS CARIOCA ONE CARD, ALL ELECTRONIC BINGO MACHINE IS A TOP INCOME PRODUCER FOR OUR BUSINESS. MANUFACTURERED IN ZUTENDAAL, BELGIUM BY JOHN GILLE COMPANY, THIS MACHINE IS IN GOOD WORKING CONDITION AND COMES COMPLETE WITH A JCM BILL ACCEPTOR, FLIPPER ASSEMBLY ALREADY INSTALLED, AND IS ITHACA PRINTER READY. THE CARIOCA HAS ONE, THREE, AND FIVE BALL GAMES, WITH A BONUS GAME WHERE THE PLAYER CAN WIN UP TO 40,000. THE CREDIT VALUE CAN BE CHANGED TO EITHER $0.05, $0.10, OR $0.25. THE MAXIMUM BET ON ALL GAMES IS 250 CREDITS WITH ADDITIONAL CHARGES FOR OPTION EXTRA BALLS. THE CARIOCA IS TRULY A UNIQUE MACHINE. THIS MACHINE HAS AN OPTIONAL CREDIT SEPERATION PROGRAM IS STREET READY AND IS A MUST HAVE FOR YOUR REDEMPTION ROUTE OR GAMEROOM. FULL ELECTRONIC AND MECHINCAL METERS INSURE ACCOUNTABILITY. BUYER PAYS ALL SHIPPING CHARGES. BUYER IS ENCOURAGE TO INSURE THIS SHIPMENT.

5/27/2010 keith

Casey's Electronics Co in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania (PA)

Name: Casey's Electronics Co
Street: 5410 William Flynn Hwy
Postal address: 15044- 9652 Gibsonia, PA
Phone: (724) 443-8790

If you have one of these machines and want some repair parts or tech books, you may want to give them a try.  If it's their engineering then you can bet they still have it.  If the equipment was provided by a third party (like say International Game Technology) then you probably SOL. I would bet anything that Casey's also modified the EM games to take out the 11th coin double-double.  The mods to those games were very well done.  Not just some jackass with speaker wire and walmart solder gun.  What really impressed me was when they used the right colored wire to tie their mods in.  I suppose that would be the best way to do it but it made them hard to find.  Usually extra, non-Bally wires stick out in a game but not on these.  They were cammied up. Something else about these games...They all had heavy play.  The one I had with no 11th coin had almost a million on the one trough meter and about six hundred thousand on the other.  That's a lot of plays on a six card my friend.

RDBurdette@aol.com

CC

edixie@salsgiver.com RDBurdette@aol.com

May 27, 2010

Hello Danny,

Please let us know how you found out about us, as we are evaluating our advertising methods.

Please find our responses below and all our contact information should you like to call and discuss any of these items.

Also we have included information on a game we have that started our company that was developed in 1971 using TTL logic.  We have attached a zip file that contains some information on some of our products.  We continue to support and repair most games and jukeboxes.  The information includes our newest product for converting CD or Download Jukeboxes to digital music without the fee associated with the Internet.

Casey’s Electronics Co.

5410 William Flynn Hwy.

Gibsonia, PA  15044

724-443-8790

Casey Lowicki            edixie@salsgiver.com

Richard Burdette         RDBurdette@aol.com

Good Day,

I am hoping to learn a bit more about these machines please:

1. Did Casey’s Electronics design the newer digital circuitry added to these pinballs?

Yes, we have conversion kits for Dixieland, Nashville, High Flyer, Lotta Fun, & Wall Street Special.

2. If not, can you please tell me who did?

3. Either way, do you have the drawings and schematics for the circuitry?

Yes, we have the documents.  These are for sale individually or as part of kits.

4. Did your team convert only 7 of these machines or more?

We started converting in 1992 and continue to do so; in fact we have a unit in process right now in our shop.  We have included a picture of the wood finish option this unit will have once finished.

My follow-ups will likely be:

1. Do you have any of the modification kits (sets of parts) still left?

Yes, we manufacture the kits for conversions and have a variety of parts available.  The conversion kit price is $3,500.00 USD.

2. Is it possible for me to obtain drawings?

Yes, please specify what documents you are interested in obtaining and we can provide a quote.

I look forward to your follow-up,

Thank you very much for your time,

Danny

Charleston SC

The Brick
Downtown, 213-B East Bay St.
720-7788
Pub
Come for the dart lanes, stay for the F&B-friendly atmosphere.
This warmly lit pub offers plenty of space and roomy booths for knocking back a few pints. Their happy hour (5-8 p.m.) offers $2 Bud Select and Yuengling drafts, plus $3 well drinks. The real draw of The Brick is the dart lanes. Simply approach the bartender for the house darts and take aim!
PLUSES: Four dart lanes, one pool table, an old bingo pinball machine, Golden Tee, and delicious brews on tap. (—Sara Miller)

CIRSA EURO BINGO 7

CIRSA EURO BINGO 7 EN BUENAS CONDICIONES IDEALES PARA PROFESIONALES Y UNA BUENA DIVERSION PARA PARTICULARES

Este producto esta en nuestro catálogo desde el miércoles 28 noviembre, 2007.

Cirsa features

Bingolaitteet (nimeltään Cirsa Eurobingo) toimivat siten, että pelaaja (pudotettuaan rahan koneeseen) käynnistää joko suoraan bingon yhdellä (Carton 1) bingoruudukolla ilman mitään lisävoittomahdollisuuksia (paina nappia "Juegue Bingo") tai ostaa lisää ruudukoita (Carton 2 - 6 sekä Carton Extra) numerojärjestyksessä sekä niihin mahdollisia lisäominaisuuksia pelaamalla led-valoilla toteutettua 2 kuvan hedelmäpeliä. Pelaamalla hedelmäpeliä voit saada hedelmäpelivoiton lisäksi ruudukoihin seuraavat lisäominaisuudet:
1. Super Linea: Mikäli saat vähintään 3 osumaa kyseiselle sinisellä pohjavärillä merkitylle linjalle, saat korkeamman voiton kuin muilta linjoilta
2. Paga Diagonal: Myös "vinobingolla" saa voiton
3. Super Corner: Voitto maksetaan myös jos ruudukon kulmanumerot osuvat arvottuihin numeroihin.
4. Carton Extra: Saat ilmaisen lisäruudukon.
Pelattuasi itsellesi haluamasi määrän bingoruudukoita käynnistä bingo "Juegue Bingo" -napilla. Tällöin kone syöttää laukaistavaksesi metallikuulan, jonka laukaiset flipperin tavoin pelikentälle, jossa se osuu johonkin kentällä olevista aukoista. Aukot on suunniteltu siten, että osa niistä on huomattavasti muita helpommin osuttavissa. Mikäli kuula ei osu mihinkään aukkoon saat pelata sen uudelleen.
Pelikierroksella pelataan 5 kuulaa jonka jälkeen automaatti maksaa voiton mikäli bingoruuduko(i)ssa on vähintään 3 PERÄKKÄISTÄ numerovaloa syttyneenä. Päävoitto on 80 / 120 euroa pelattua bingoruudukkoa kohden ja pelipanos 20 / 40 snt per pelattu ruudukko.
Voit yrittää tuplata voittosi myös tässä laitteessa. Mikäli tuplaus menee pieleen voitat bonuksia joita voit käyttää kasvattamaan voittosummia. 1 bonus kasvattaa ruudukon kaikki voitot päävoittoa lukuunottamatta kolminkertaisiksi.

Coin door meters:

Hi Steve,

The 2 most likely meters you have on the Big Show are the Replay Meter - showing a total of how many replays have been won, and the Total Plays meter - showing how many games have been played, or more accurately, how many spin cycles (as you could have many spin cycles - coins or replays - in just one game).

There may also be a Coin Meter which just counts the number of coins played. Bally did show this on the schematic, but only with a dotted line, so presumably it was an optional extra.

Assuming the 2 meters that you have are the Replays and Total Plays, then they should be simple to wire back in. The 2 wires to the Replays meter are 93-7 and 48-4. The 2 to the Total plays meter are 91-7 and 90-5. I would think these wires have just been cut back and if you open the harness you'll probably find them. The other way is to go to the 22 way Jones' plug (male end) from the cabinet - it's one of the ones that plugs into the head - and locate the wires there. If you have a schematic it will tell you exactly which wires they are on the plug. You can then just trace them back, or put new ones in.

Hope that helps.

Chris.

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Bally Pinball Machine

by PWhetsell14 » Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:07 pm

I recently purchased a Bally Big Time Bingo Style Pinball Machine. Ive checked several books "The Pinball Compendium" had have not found any info. on it. If anyone knows anything about this machine I would appreciate it very much. I would like to see it restored but I have neither the time or money to do that and would like some names of collectors who might be interested in the machine. Thanks for your help, sincerely.

PWhetsell14

Re: Bally Pinball Machine

by Anglobritish » Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:26 pm

Hi,
Your Bally Big Time was built in 1955, it is a disguised gambling device, the Bally Bingo's were probably the greatest gambling devices ever made, I operated these machines in the U.K. from 1958 till the mid 1960's. Find attached a copy of the original flyer from my collection, there is two books on the subject, Bally Bingo Pinball Machines and The Bingo Wars, United vs Bally 1951-1957. both of these was written by Jefferey Lawton and published by Schiffer. As you know most of the components in the machine are in the back flash, the playfield as only two motors, I strongly suggest you don't try to work on these machines, very few people can fix them, all of the steppers and spotting discs are controlled by one motor, they operate with relays and there are leather clutches on each spotting disc, these need to be stripped out and replaced and soaked in Neats foot oil prior to installing, after saying all of this, they are not very collectible, they still operate these machines in Belgium, where they were deemed to be a National Pastime. I operated these and the cash boxes would overflow with coins, and the cash box is one foot square and 6 inch deep.

Great machines and great memories, if you go to Bally Bingo's in Great Britain, you can read several articles that I wrote for that web site.

Freddy Bailey

Comment se joue le bingo dans les cafés ?

Le bingo dans les cafés est un concept complètement différent de ceux que nous connaissons. Effectivement, on n’y joue pas avec des cartons mais bel et bien sur des machines. Ces machines, composées d’une planche de 26 trous numérotés et d’une autre avec 2 ou 6 cartes, ont l’apparence d’un flipper et ont pour but de faire une ligne de chiffres consécutifs avec 5 billes. Interdit en France, le bingo dans les cafés est très populaire en Belgique. Plus de 15 000 machines à Bingo sont disponibles dans les cafés belges. Afin d’éviter les abus, ces machines ne tolèrent pas plus de 12.50 € de mise par heures mais reversent en moyenne près de 90 % des mises.

Continental Lucky 7 (export)

• Offers 4 games (Six Cards, One Ball, Tiercé and Lucky Seven)
• Central display with Leds
• Hopper and bill validator as money changer optional
• Can be modified to your wishes

Continental Lucky 7 note

Bingotoestel in méér dan perfecte staat, komt recht uit café!!  Up-to-date spellen!  Tiercé - Lucky 7 - One ball & Six Card game.  6 maanden volledige garantie op onderdelen en werk.  Gratis thuis geleverd over gans België.  Ook zeer geschikt als decoratie, prachtig meubel. Zéér recent toestel, werkt met alle euromunten.  Volledig gebruiksklaar voor privédoeleinden, zoals de toestellen op heden in de horeca staan opgesteld.  Sterk fabrikaat (the slot construction compagny) gekend  bij de insiders voor z'n degelijkheid.

Continental Magic Game

TSCC, 1991, Bingo

Bingo, sähköfortunasta muotoutunut flipperin serkku on kohtuullisen monimutkainen taitolaji. Mailattoman koneen kanssa oikea plungerin käyttö ja sopiva töniminen ovat pääasiallisia vaikuttajia lopputulokseen. Toisin kuin flipperi, bingo on voittoja antava uhkapeli pachinkon lailla.

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EURO CONTINENTAL ONE BALL BINGO

FOR more than 20 years the most famous bingo.
Nice working SIX CARDS BINGO in good condition.
EXTRA: BONUS PAY OUT TOPPER DISPLAY included. RARE TO FIND!
Eurocoin acceptor included.
Error codes have been disabled so don't worry about that problem in the future.
Nice clean cabinet.
Collect preferred, testing is possible.
Delivery for belgium 100euro.

Pendant plus de 20 ans le meillieur bingo.
Une tres bonne six cartes bingo.
EXTRA: BONUS JEUX de payement DISPLAY en top du cabinet. TRES UNIQUE!
Monnayeur en EURO prevu.
Codes erreur enlever, pas de probleme pour la future.
Cabinet tres propre.
Enlevement prefferez, tester est possible.
Livraison en Belgique à 100euro.

Continental Super 7 (export)

• TFT 15” screen keeps the player well informed
• Offers 7 games (Six Card, Super Ball, Super 7, Super 7 Tutti Frutti, Spice Ball, Magic 7, Magic 7 Turbo)
• Hopper and bill validator as money changer optional
• Can be modified at your wishes

Dimensions (DxWxH):
137cm x 66cm x 197cm

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THIS COPACABANA TWO CARD, ALL ELECTRONIC BINGO MACHINE IS A TOP INCOME PRODUCER FOR OUR BUSINESS. MANUFACTURERED IN ZUTENDAAL, BELGIUM BY JOHN GILLE COMPANY, THIS MACHINE IS IN GOOD WORKING CONDITION AND COMES COMPLETE WITH A JCM BILL ACCEPTOR, ITHACA PRINTER, AND FLIPPER ASSEMBLY ALREADY INSTALLED. THIS MACHINE HAS AN OPTIONAL CREDIT SEPERATION PROGRAM IS STREET READY AND IS A MUST HAVE FOR YOUR REDEMPTION ROUTE OR GAMEROOM. FULL ELECTRONIC AND MECHINCAL METERS INSURE ACCOUNTABILITY. BUYER PAYS ALL SHIPPING CHARGES. BUYER IS ENCOURAGE TO INSURE THIS SHIPMENT. THE COPACABANA HAS A THREE GAME MENU (1 BALL, 3 BALL, AND 5 BALL GAMES) WITH OWNER OPTIONAL CREDIT VALUE OF $0.05, $0.10, OR $0.25 PER CREDIT. MAXIMUM WAGER PER GAME IS 250 CREDITS WITH EXTRA BALL COST OF UP TO 250 CREDITS.

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Dave from Seattle

When a lad of thirteen or fourteen I used to hang around guys who played the bingo pinball machines at the ice creamery and the bowling alleys in my neighborhood. You know, I never saw a female play one. Hmm. Who's the smart one of the species? :)
The smell of a bingo pinball is unique to anything -- a combination of oil and ozone and stale cigarette smoke. The images of the brown strips burned wood where players left their cigarettes burning, or the water stains where occasional drinks would get spilled. The sounds of the stepping switches rattling off ABCD E F G, the pops of the trip bank switches when a super section would light up, or the punk punk punk when 1st Extra Ball would light on a single nickel are all sounds that make them a league of their own.
My granddad was janitoring one of these bowling alleys and they had a ShowTime and a County Fair. I would do anything I could to scrounge up nickels to play these on the weekends while he vacuumed and mopped.  I learned how to jack up the machine using matchbooks under the right rear leg so the balls would roll down the 1-8-(14)-19-23-24 side to make it easier to get a five-in-line. Occasionally it worked! In those days, the maximum payout in our city was 160 replays. So if the odds jumped to 160 96 32, that was tiggest game with a five in line. Anyway, I'd play these at 5 in the morning so no one would watch.
My granddad would wait until the owner came in and collect the winnings. The owner put a stop to that after about six consecutive weeks of $8 winners. Cheapskate!
I remember playing the County Fair one time and a police officer started poking around the front window. I was a teen ager at the time so it was obviously illegal for me to be playing the machine. I had won a number of games but when I saw him pull up I turned the machine off and hid underneath it while my grandfather ran the buffer. Of course I had forgotten that all the games go away when turning on the power again, so I lost all my winnings for that day. My nickels were gone, too!
While looking in the newspaper one day three years ago, a fellow was selling two bingo games to prepare for a move. I went out to his house and here was a Broadway and a ShowTime. I had $400 in my pocket cash and offered him that amount if he would deliver them, take them apart, and brought them to my house (about 20 miles away). I was so happy owning a ShowTime. And this one had odds to 600 480 192! So a year later I'm looking in the paper and here is an add for bingo pinballs (plural). So I call up the number, go out to the fellows house, and he has 15 of these things lined up in his garage! Many of these units were in excellent condition (and priced accordingly). So I started playing the County Fair that he had and could not lose. Four in lines, five in lines, huge odds, OK games, everything was going my way. I walked out of the garage owning the County Fair and so in my collection are two of the games I loved as a teenager. And I met one of the great technical geniuses of bingo pinball that day, Richard Gerlitz. Too bad he is getting out of the business. The man is stunning in his knowledge of working of the machines -- and he is a nice guy! The machine he sold me was perfect then and is perfect now. The backglass is spectacular. It is the pride of the fleet!
There are other stories involving Laguna Beach, Roller Derby, and a number of others whose names have faded into the past, watching the repairmen come out when a problem existed and open up the back and by reading the schematic be able to make it work again. Only once do I recall watching them take an old broken machine out and replace it with a different one. And once in a while they would loosen up the reflex unit  to increase the chances of winning big. It was absolutely fascinating to me as a teenager to look inside the back, and now that I am in my fifties, they are no less magical even though I own three and am seriously considering purchasing two more. (A Lido and a Bounty)
Thanks for the bandwidth. Hope you enjoyed!

Dave L, Seattle

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From: Johnny Selman <johnnyselman@charter.net>
Subject: Re: Your Dixieland bingo:
To: "Danny Leach" <bingopinballs@yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 6:49 PM

You may already know this but it using optics for switches and magnetic pickups in the holes. I only see one leaf switch at the end of the shooter lane. It has leds (i guess they are) in the playfield holes that light. All solid light is a possible winning number and the biggest possible winning one flashes in the hole and on backglass.At first I  said "well thats going to make it to easy" but later figured out it builds played confidence to pay big bucks for those extra balls.

I'll get you a copy of the manual in the mail soon. I did see in the manual that is made a refence to a "Magic-Continental".

Thanks,Johnny

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Hi Cindy..Pinball machines were a regular habit with me when growing up..I remember a type of pinball machine that had no flippers and worked like a bingo game where by
getting five in row you'd win free games. These free games could be used to increase the odds or cashed in for money. If memory serves it cost 5 cents per play. These were
illegal in Oklahoma but like liquor by the drink (also illegal in Okla. at the time) people ignored the law..but somewhere along the way the usual crowd of "do-gooders"
managed to get rid of them. Are these pinball machines still around anywhere and are they still illegal?.. Enjoyed the site and the memories..Johnny Henry

Sunday, January 21st 2001 - 11:34:25 AM

Doug back to Ron

Like I've stated before, I played my first "pinball", a bingo, 49 years
ago when I was ten years old and the die was cast.  I obviously now own
pins, lately rarely play or work on them yet can't seem to lose the
interest.

Doug seed

Posted 05 January 2009 - 07:11 AM

Hey, cool... I remember those bingo machines, Ray!
My grandmother started a tea room in 1927, but by the time I came along and was in grade school in the late 1950s, it had become a legendary diner named "Gussie's Lunch". Gussie had a vending operator/friend named Jimmy Diamond (yuh, I'm sure that was his real name!) who owned all of the pinballs and juke boxes in the area.
I remember guys pumping nickels into those machines like crazy. I never really understood what the heck was going on since some of the games had multiple bingo cards and I remember one in which the cards actually changed behind the backglass.
I always thought it was strange that a short-order cook would have so many rolls of nickels behind the counter for customers to buy. And if that wasn't strange enough, every once-in-a-while, the counter guy would give a bunch of money to the players when they "achieved their goal" at the machine (whatever that goal was!) :-)
I saw a lot of cash change hands with those bingo pinballs. Apparently the local cops looked the other way, since they were regular patrons of the diner.
Anybody else have a pinball story in their background?

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La máquina B llega a través de diversas presentaciones físicas: bingo flipper en tablero de 25 agujeros, cataratas, bolerines, grúas... Hasta concretarse en lo ...

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Bingo  Palm Beach gemaakt door Sirmo in 1980.
Deze Magic Screen bingo werkt volledig.
Je kan er tot 5 extra ballen op spelen, hij heeft extra bonussen en je kan de punten zelfs met een factor 5 verhogen om meer winst te maken.
Met slechts een paar modellen gemaakt is deze elektronische Magic Screen bingo een zeldzaam exemplaar.
Wordt verkocht in de staat waarin hij zich bevindt.

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The company covers all elements of the entertainment spectrum including development, production, marketing, distribution and franchise management.

Endemol comprises a global network of more than 80 companies in 26 countries including the USA, the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as Latin America, India, South Africa and Australia.

Each year Endemol generates 40,000 hours of content and works with approximately 400 broadcasters and digital platforms around the world.

Endemol’s credits include international blockbusters like Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Star Academy and Wipeout. Its growing drama portfolio includes worldwide hits such as Home and Away, Rush, McLeod’s Daughters; Wire in the Blood, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Robin Hood and Nini.

The group also incorporates Endemol Sports, Europe’s fastest growing sports media company, which produces a wide range of multi-media content, from live events to sports entertainment, magazine shows, reality programming, documentaries and films. The company’s creative teams around the world are continuously developing new ideas that are shared across the Endemol network. Endemol currently has a growing library of over 2000 formats and approximately 21,000 hours of content across genres including entertainment, reality TV, game shows, animation, comedy and drama.

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Eric, le "meilleur joueur de bingo de tous les temps", a accumulé des gains incroyables en jouant dans les cafés

Publié le 01 mars 2019 à 13h55 , mis à jour à 15h16

Les équipes du magazine Reporters ont enquêté sur les bingos. Un document à découvrir ce vendredi à 19h45 sur RTL-TVI.

En Belgique, 10.000 bingo resteraient dispersés dans 7.000 cafés. A Bruxelles, c'est surtout dans les communes de Schaerbeek et Saint-Josse qu'on les retrouve. En Wallonie, c'est dans le Hainaut.

Le journaliste Michael Miraglia est allé à la rencontre d'Eric qui serait "le plus grand joueur de bingo de tous les temps".

Lors de sa meilleure partie, cet homme a gagné 133.000 francs belges, soit 3.250 euros. Et c'était souvent comme ça quand il jouait, au point qu'il a été interdit de jouer dans sa commune, puis dans sa région, et enfin dans toute la Wallonie. Plus tard, il a aussi été interdit de jeu en Flandre également. "Je pouvais rentrer boire un verre, mais pas toucher au bingo", confie-t-il.

Mais les machines à bingo réussissent beaucoup moins à d'autres joueurs. De près ou de loin, ils sont nombreux à connaître des gens qui ont connu des drames à cause de cette machine. Certains se sont retrouvés très endettés.

La suite de ce programme est à découvrir ce vendredi soir à 19h45 dans l'émission Reporters.

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Euro flip history

AW: Hersteller: Euro Flip?

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Hier ist des Lätsels Rösung:
It seems this company changed names a few times.. There was Euroflip, then Recel, then it changed into Petaco (Proyectos Electromecanicos de TAnteo y COntrol).
In 1984 the company changed into Juegos Populares
Soll heißen, daß diese Firma öfters mal den Besitzer/Name wechselte!
Juegos Populares ist verantwortlich für den Halley Comet den der Ballychamp besitzt, cooles Teil das

Gruß Rainer

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Pinball for Money

(thing) by dannye (4.7 min) (print)

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Sun Feb 20 2000 at 2:15:01

Many a man has lost many a quarter in the pinball for money game. Some of the more famous tables were "Miss America" and "Nashville." No flippers were involved. There were usually 24 holes on the table. You used the plunger to launch your ball, and this was often the most important move you would make in your attempt to get the ball into a certain numbered hole. The first row would usually have six or seven holes, then a second row of six or seven, then the table would narrow down to the bottom where usually only 23 and 24 would be possible without the ball returning to the chute to try again.

So how would you win money? There were cards on the screen, akin to Bingo cards. Should you get 3 numbers in a row, you could basically get your money back. If you could line up 4, you could usually double your money. However, should you get 5 numbers lighted up in a row, you might stand to win a couple of hundred dollars. You improved your odds by putting in more money each time you played a game. This was the insidious element of the machine. There was no limit to the number of quarters (or nickels, or dimes -- but the true player only used the quarter machines) you could put in for each game, in order to improve your odds.

The 1957 "Korpran Decision" of the Supreme Court ruled that these "bingo pinballs" were "gambling devices" and thus subject to the Johnson Act which outlawed such devices. This severely cut back the use of these machines except in a few states, such as Tennessee and South Carolina, where they were legal. Bally continued to manufacture these machines even after this because Tennessee, especially, was such a hot market for them. In the early Eighties Tennessee (the largest U.S. user of these machines at the time) outlawed them.

I was living in Memphis at this time, and I have never had a gambling addiction before or since. But I put many a roll of quarters in these machines. They would be in the bars where you were drinking with your friends, and at some point during the night, you would gravitate to the "Miss America" glimmering in the dark, beckoning you to insert coins in her, with promises of big wampum. The other insidious thing was that the bars, if they knew you pretty well, would put rolls of quarters on your bar tab. You can guess how that worked out.

The best time of the experience was when you would get hot and run up a few thousand "games" on the machine. When you had had enough and decided to call it a night, the bartender would come over and flip the switch to set the counter back to zero and pay you a quarter a game.

However, as with all gambling enterprises, the house always wound up the winner in the long run.

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Ronfleur:

On travail essentiellement ( depuis quelque années ) avec les bingo des fabricants SPLIN, G.A.A, VIDITIS et SIRMO.

Si je ne me trompe pas, WIMI est devenu Eurautomat en flandre.

Mais pas de soucis, si je n'ai pas les réponses à vos questions j'peux toujours voir avec le chef d'ateliers au boulot.

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Subject: Re: Best 40s-60s Pinball BINGO game? Best representative? etc
Date: 2001-06-02 20:40:55 PST
I like Lido & Bikini the best. My reason is the Futurity Game feature. On Red Letter OK Score feature games you must play your Red Letter game as soon as you win it. On Bikini & Lido when you win on the OK Score feature you advance the value of the Futurity Game. In other words, you can hit numerous "low odds" OK Score features and play one REALLY BIG Futurity Game. Neat huh. I describe this in my book in much more detail. If I can answer any questions, please feel free to write back.

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Contributing Editor - Game Room Magazine

Author - Bally Bingo Pinball Machines

EL B – 3 Stars

Less than satisfying and not cheap.

Pasta was overcooked, and the pizza really salty with a 'wood-fired' crust. Ok, maybe it was wood-fired, but some wood-firing's not gonna fix what tasted like a frozen pizza crust.
What was good? Well the half roasted chicken. That was actually really good.
Bill without tip was about $50. And the food came out seriously staggered...like 20 minutes apart for each thing.
It was surprisingly busy for such a mediocre place. I must be missing something.

Firewood Cafe - San Francisco, CA, United States.

Pinball machine art...pretty Cool

Flipjuke search

I left off at 50

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Found on google.germany on an image search for Flipper Bigno

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I keyed into that idea from searching ebay.germany for

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Old gambling pinball?? Need help

Hendersonville, TN

My supervisor at work has been telling me about old gambling "pinball" machines (not sure if its really called pinball) where the playfield has 25 holes and you get 5 balls and the more money you put in the more balls you get and I guess it gives you credits and you get paid out by the credits. We found the name of one "beach club" does anyone know or have any info on these type pinballs, I've always been wondering about them and hoping to find more info on them, thanks guys

LTG

LTG

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Pinball machines and Bingos.

In my area many were horse racing themes, a nickel a play one ball. The more nickels you dumped in, the better the odds.The games paid out tokens, if you knew the person you bought them back for a nickel each. If you didn't know them, they won a bunch of useless tokens.

Do some internet digging and you should find out plenty.

LTG : )

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Bally Distributing, formerly of Reno with satelite locations in Elko and Las Vegas offered payout modification kits for Bally bingo pinball machines. A Bally slot machine hopper is utilized to dispense a coin for each credit on the replay register.

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From gary stern

I lived in Lincoln Park and my car was not working so I told the cab driver to take me to 3401 North California Ave. He said, "That's United Manufacturing," which it wasn't anymore, "Lyn Durant." How did he know that? Apparently, you guys would know better than me, but one Christmas Eve, Durant, whose apartment was upstairs above the factory, wanted to go downtown and called a cab. The cab showed up and Lyn asked the cab driver why he was working on Christmas Eve? The driver replied with reasons like he had to buy presents for his kid and he needed the money. Durant gave him a tip that folded up looked like a dollar, but it was a hundred. So there was always a cab nearby, for years, in case Durant needed one.

Durant used to drink quite a bit. He used to give away fur coats, give away cars. The Williams lunchroom was Durant's ballroom. One day he was coming up the elevator with the owner of a Chicago nightclub, Jack Schotts, to the second floor and he said to the elevator operator, "I want a drink." Jack said we're almost there, but Lyn repeated, "NO, I want a drink now." The elevator operator stopped and opened the elevator door. It's half way up, and the door opens and there in the elevator shaft was an alcove where Durant had built a bar so he could stop the elevator and serve booze to his friends.

…from the Retro Bitch

Wonderland Arcade: 40-Years of Historic Photos Reveals More Than Initially Meets the Eye

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Cat DeSpira

1968: Wonderland Inc v. The United States of America

It’d be cool to be able to say that a bunch of  IRS goons decided to send an agent down to Wonderland Arcade in 1962 to see how many free games he could land on Beach Beauty, but that’s not even close to what happened.

Instead, Wonderland Arcade found itself pretty much fighting for its life.

In 1965, an agent for the IRS visited Wonderland Arcade and found 8 bingo-style pinballs, the kind commonly suspected of being used for illegal gambling.

Wonderland Arcade, owned and run since 1955 by Charles “Sam” McGuire (1914-2003), was suddenly forced to pay taxes and fines he didn’t really owe to the Internal Revenue Office just to get the feds off his back. It was either that, or face complete shutdown because, for some reason, although he had  paid  taxes and fees before, the IRS had suddenly decided it wasn’t enough, or even the right kind. For historical accuracy McGuire’s operating  manager was Chester “Chet” Alumbaugh (1925-2017).

Basically McGuire was being shammed by the IRS. At least that what it looks like to me.

The IRS also recommended that McGuire might be made to pay extra taxes on all  of his “coin operated gaming devices” and not just the pinballs. Worse still, because McGuire had been operating those same 8 pinballs since 1962 allegedly without having paid any extra tax on them, he was made to pay back taxes on them going back three years which totaled $6000 (47K today).  He also received a $1500 fine  (12K today) for not filing those taxes. He also had to forfeit his license to operate them  until he was cleared at a later date to operate them again. McGuire and Wonderland Arcade were  facing an uncertain future.

Whoever changed Bally’s “Sea Island” (1959) pinball to read “Sex Island” is a cheeky monkey.

Other arcades across the State and beyond were facing the very same things, though. The pinball crackdown in The Midwest, which began around 1953, had finally built itself up into an almost unstoppable force by The 60s. Proprietors were jailed, many of them on trumped-up charges. Many more lost everything and were forced into bankruptcy. Some committed suicide. And some, god bless them, stood up against police raids, fought the IRS and some, like Sam McGuire, fought even harder.

Now, whether or not McGuire had been purposely evading paying these fees and proper taxes all those years isn’t clear. What’s known is, by 1966, Kansas City newspapers were filled with sensationalized reports of pinball and illegal gambling arrests and forced shutdowns on proprietors operating arcades without proper licensing. It was war on pinball, sure. But the real war, some say, was against mafia who had ties in Kansas City to illegal gambling supported by mafia heads in Las Vegas. Personally, I’ve never believed that the mafia cared that much about pinball in The 60s. Why would they? Drug trafficking and prostitution was more lucrative.  Instead, I believe that the IRS, greedy for kickback from politicians eager for political approval, attacked pinball parlors and arcades because it caught the attention of parents who believed arcades were dens of inequity luring children.

Either way, no one was going to break free from the grip of the IRS’s tentacles without a fight, jail time or hefty fines…or all three.

From Watts Page:

Number 16 on the playfield was called the Ballyhole, and hit when lit would award 1St Extra Ball.

ballyhole

Playfield hole #16 does something special, such as awarding an extra ball. The ballyhole was also used to light features automatically for the NEXT game played, like enabling all the magic squares.

Galaxy Features

VINTAGE - 1978 - ELECTRO MECHANICAL BINGO GAME.

WORKING AND IN VERY GOOD COSMETIC SHAPE ALSO.  THE GAME HAS BEEN GONE OVER, NOT SHOPPED.

THE GAME PLAYS WELL!  I HAVE HAD THIS FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS.

NEW BALLS AND RUBBERS THEN.  GAME HAS BEEN TOUCHED UP WITH PAINT.

THE PLAYS ARE:  PUT IN 2 QUARTERS AND GET 5 REPLAYS, 10 CENTS A GAME.

I HAVE SCHEMATICS AND A GAME MANUAL FOR IT.

PLAYFIELD IS EXCELLENT, HEAD GLASS TOUCHED UP.  CABINET VERY GOOD.

NICE OAK LOCK DOWN BAR.

FEATURES:

1.  24 HOLES - 5 BALLS - 3 EXTRA BALLS

2.  ADVANCING ODDS/SCORES

3.  HAS LEFT SIDE OR RIGHT SIDE BALL RETURN WHEN LIT - AMAZING FEATURE!!

4.  HAS 3 PICK A PLAY BUTTONS - GOOD FEATURE

5.  HAS MOVABLE MAGIC LINES THAT GO UP AND DOWN AND MORE

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GAMES

Napoleon's Game

Napoleon’s Game is the newest game on the Ultra Seven. 
The game has been developed in collaboration with Napoleon Games and is a very popular game with bingo players.

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Wheel of fortune

Wheel of Fortune is well known with bingo players.
The game is a classic game with some innovative changes.

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Open the safe

Open the safe is a variation on the game “Deal or No Deal”.
When you’re able to crack the safe, you can win up to 80 times your stake.

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Color Ball

In this unique multi ball game you can win by playing the correct color combinations.
When you’re lucky to play the magenta color, you can even double your prize.

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Euro One Ball Deluxe

Euro One Ball Deluxe is the only game with six cards. 
This game is extremely popular. The modern look and feel is also present in this game.

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Triple Fortune

Triple Fortune, a variant of Wheel Of Fortune, is the most popular game on the Ultra Seven.

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.. trade name "Bally" and operates on the "bingo" or "in-line" principle. It is characterized by a multiple coin feature, a "knock-off" circuit, a reflex unit and a three- ...

Gepubliceerd op 22 januari, 2018 door Danny Post

0Flipperdeflip, wat een lekker ding!

Een sexy stukje Amerikaanse historie bij Jouw Marktkraam in Rotterdam. Te koop is een speelveld van een flipperkast uit 1956. De pin-ups moedigen je aan om een bod te doen.

“Dit spel is uitsluitend bedoeld voor amusement! Dus geen prijzen of premies in welke vorm dan ook!” schreeuwt een paniekerig briefje dat iemand lang geleden op dit speelveld plakte. Gevolgd door het strenge: “Alleen toegestaan voor personen boven 18 jaar.” Deze vrijpostige pin-upmeisjes maakten in de fifties een hoop los in het toen nog zeer puriteinse Nederland.
61 jaar later hebben ze niets aan sex-appeal ingeboet. Mijn kwijlklieren gingen in overdrive toen ik ze in een van de kraampjes bij Jouw Marktkraam zag. Het viel de verkoper op, want hij stond meteen naast me. “Mooi hè?” hoorde ik hem zeggen. “Dit speelveld komt uit een grotere partij. De meeste exemplaren waren er slecht aan toe, maar we konden er gelukkig enkele redden.”

He, ho, bi, iedereen wordt verliefd op deze Bally-babes.

Het speelveld was ooit het knipperende middelpunt van een Bally-flipperkast. Deze bekende Amerikaanse fabrikant maakte van 1932 tot 1995 talloze iconische flipperkasten en gokkasten. Dit model heette Key West en dateert uit 1956. De rest van de flipperkast verdween in de mist der tijd, maar de pin-upmeisjes overleefden. Op de site van de flipperkastverzamelaar en
-reparateur Old Binger kun je zien hoe Key West er in haar geheel uitzag.
Het is mogelijk om er een restauratieproject van te maken en het web af te speuren naar de ontbrekende onderdelen, zodat je er weer mee kunt flipperen (de originele ‘kogels’ zitten er in ieder geval al bij). Zelf zou ik deze stoeipoezenclub gewoon op een centrale plaats in huis parkeren als designobject. De prijs? “Ik vraag er in principe 65 euro voor,” aldus de verkoper. “Maar ik kan eventueel nog een beetje zakken.” Flippin’ fabulous!

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From: Steve Smith <cabinut@verizon.net>
Subject: Golden Gate Four Color Hit
To: "Danny Leach" <bingopinballs@yahoo.com>, "Jeffrey Lawton" <lawton_jeffrey@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, April 30, 2010, 7:24 PM

I felt like sharing this with some folks who might appreciate it.

(FYI- The reflections across the game name are Christmas lights on the ceiling of the “Manshop” for proper ambiance during such sessions)

Playing some bingo the other night (actually testing for a feature - I think I was trying to light a GATE game with the TWO IN THE GOLD lit because I hardly ever see it happen) and kind of “fell into” a first for me.

Magic screen lit to "G” with After 5th Ball lit - Landed a "Tee" shaped pattern. The yellow and green both hit on the straight bingo card –moved to position “A” on the magic screen for the red hit then to position “G” for 3 in the Blue.

My "first ever" four color hit ... Yeay!.

Wish I’d built up the odds more but I’m still lovin’ it.

Your turn … =)

All the Best,

Steve Smith

Richmond VA.

From: Lovemypins (lovemypins@aol.com)
Subject: Tech: Bingo Golden Gate
Date: 1999/04/26

Question - Hi Guys. On my Golden Gate, there is a resetting problem on the Magic Screen. As you Bingo people know, when the screen is used and a new game is started, the screen will move a fraction to the left and then will reset by moving completely to the right until it reaches it's normal position. Well, on my game, ocasionally when I start a new game, the screen will not return or will move even further to the left. When this happens, I can hear the screen motor running constantly. I then tilt the game and try again. Any ides where I should start to look for the problem. Thanks....Roger

From: Lynne and Michael Sands (news5@5sandsmuseum.com)

Answer - Seems like I have a similar problem with my Silver Sails, an identical game. The actual screen position is indexed with a contact disc underneath it. If any thing is preventing the screen from moving you will have a problem similar to this.

In my case, the number glass behind the screen came loose and prevented the screen from moving. In fixing that, the disc position did not match the screen position. It is an easy matter of rotating the screen to match.

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JEU DE 3 BILLES SUPPLEMENTAIRE SE JOUANT DANS LA 5 EME CARTE.
JEU DE 6 CARTES INTEGRANT LES AVANTAGES DU JEU DE PENALTY.
JEU A 5 BILLES ET UNE EXTRA BILLE.
POSSIBILITE D AJOUTER UN BONUS PROGRESSIF MEGABOX RELIANT 2 OU 3 BINGOS
DISPLAY SUR CHAQUE CARTE QUI AFFICHE LE SCORE.
NOMBREUX REGLAGES POSSIBLES DE LA MISE EN FONCTIONS DU PRIX DU JEU.
CONCEPTION MODULAIRE DE L APPAREIL FACILITANT LE DEPANAGE ET L'ENTRETIEN
ELECTRONIQUE FIABLE ET PROUVEE DEPUIS DE NOMBREUSES ANNEES.
DETECTION CAPACITIVE DU PLAYFIELD QUI GARANTIT LA SECURITE
TOUTES LES PARTIES ELECTRONIQUES SONT PROTEGEES CONTRE LES TRICHERIES DIVERSES.
POIDS ET DIMENSIONS 70 X 199 X 140 ET 170 KG

Greg Kmiec Bally Deigner

2009 Interview where he is talking about the late-model games he was designing mentioned this piece of trivia:

Of course, industry insiders know that I always included a single red playfield post on every game I designed. Here is the story behind that: When I was first starting out in design, it was industry policy that a designer could not put his name on a game. That was to prevent another company from finding out who designed what game and hiring them away from their current company. That was archaic thinking. In fact, literally within hours of a new game being placed at a test location, everyone in the design industry knew who designed what game and what features were on it. Anyway, under this company-imposed anonymous design decree, I decided to set apart the games I designed. Bally was running two production lines at the time, a pinball line that used white playfield posts and a bingo line that used red playfield posts. I just installed one red post on my pinball games, usually in an inconspicuous spot on the playfield. I kept that secret for quite awhile. Then it became a Kmiec game tradition.

~ These pictures below are from an old 3.5” floppy disk Raymond Watts sent to me one day ~

~ my X tossed my Hifi, but that sign is perfect for the game – It’s “Bump Feature” was pretty cool ~

~ Thank you Raymond ~

Historical Interlude: The History of Coin-Op Part 3, Pinball

Many novelties, attractions, and games have graced the arcade over the course of 140 years, from peep shows, to music players, to target shooting games, to video games, but only one has endured from the industry’s earliest days to the present day: the game of pinball.  While the modern form of this classic game bears no resemblance to the earliest bagatelle games that pioneered the form in the 1870s, the idea of guiding a ball around a playfield full of obstacles to score points has resonated with the arcade-going public like nothing else introduced by the inventors and moguls in the field of coin-operated entertainment.  From the trade stimulators of the 1890s to the wildly popular pintables of the 1930s to the flipper machines of the 1950s and the solid state machines of the 1970s, pinball has been redesigned many times only to fall on hard times and then return again stronger than before.  With the general decline of the arcade in the western world in the present day, pinball no longer wields the influence it once did, but it is probably fair to say that without the allure of the silver ball during the dark days of the Great Depression, the video arcade game industry would have never existed, and the evolution of the interactive entertainment industry would have been vastly different.  Here then, is the history of pinball from its origins through the bingo machines of the 1950s.

NOTE:  Here is another historical interlude, the third in a six-part series on the history of the arcade before the dawn of the video game era.  Principle sources this time around were Automatic Pleasures by Nic Costa, Pinball 1: Illustrated Historical Guide to Pinball Machines by Richard Bueschel, Pinball! by Roger Sharpe, and the articles “Ballyhoo,” “A Visit With Harry Williams,” “Evolution of the Bumper,” “The Evolution of the Flipper,” and “Pinball Literature (Part 2)” by Russ Jensen.

Bagatelle

Montague Redgrave’s original Improved Bagatelle Board from 1871, the immediate forerunner of pinball

In the sixteenth century, a wide variety of lawn games gained favor in both England and France that incorporated mallets, balls, arches, and pins.  Perhaps the most prominent of these were lawn bowling and several early variations of what eventually became croquet.  Over time, these games were miniaturized and transformed into table game variations that could be played indoors.  One of the most popular of these new table games was billiards, a croquet variant in which a mallet was used to knock a ball around a table through various scoring arches and holes.  After Louis XIV of France became an avid billiard player, variations of the game began to spread rapidly, including a 1710 version called “Scoring Pockets” in which the scoring holes were protected by pins to make shots more difficult.  In 1777, a further variant incorporated a steeply inclined table and a flat cue stick while featuring a pin layout that made direct shots at the scoring holes impossible.  Instead, the player would shoot the ball up the side of the table, which would then fall back through the nest of pins and, hopefully, land in one of the scoring holes.  Debuted at a party held for Louis XVI of France by his brother, the Comte d’Artois, at the Château de Bagatelle, the new game of bagatelle soon became a sensation.

When France intervened on the side of the colonists in the American Revolution, many French soldiers brought Bagatelle tables with them, introducing the game to what would soon become the United States. The game became fashionable among landed gentlemen in the new Republic and could be found in inns and taverns across the nation.  It also proved popular as a game for soldiers, helping bagatelle spread across the ever shifting American frontier.  By the 1830s, the game was being miniaturized again, transformed into a tabletop game for children.  France and Great Britain dominated this new segment of the industry, while the United States slowly grew to be the leader in bagatelle tables, fueled by the growing number of bars and saloons that accompanied Western expansion.  This process culminated in the work of a British inventor living in the United States named Montague Redgrave. In 1871, Redgrave, then living in Cincinnati, patented what he called his “Improvements in Bagatelle” in which he replaced the clay balls common in toy variants with glass marbles and incorporated a spring-loaded plunger to replace the cue stick.  Redgrave’s improvements allowed the large, bulky table game to be reimagined as a countertop game, which spurred continued growth in the game’s popularity not only as an amusement, but as a gambling device as well.

The Log Cabin from Caille Brothers, one of the first popular coin-operated bagatelle games

In Europe, where fully automatic games of chance faced greater restrictions than in the United States, bagatelle-style gambling games rose to prominence in the 1890s.  Like bagatelle, these games featured Redgrave-style plungers and a nest of pins, but the playfield sported a vertical rather than a horizontal orientation, which was derived from fairground “drop case” games in which a ball would be dropped onto the playfield and navigate a series of pins before settling into a scoring trough along the bottom of the cabinet.  The first widely popular gambling game of this class was the Tivoli, deployed by leading British firm Haydon and Urry in 1892.  In this game, a player inserted a coin that would come to rest against a spring-loaded plunger.  The player would then launch the coin onto a playfield, where it would navigate through rows of pins before being deposited into one of several troughs.  Some of these would deposit the coin directly in the cash box, four of them would return the coin to the player, and one would trip a lever to deliver a cigar.  In 1900, British inventor John Pessers deployed a popular drop case variation called the Pickwick, in which the player controlled a movable cup and tried to catch the ball after it navigated the pins.  Various drop case games remained in production in Europe into the 1930s.

While the pin-based gambling games of Europe presaged interest in coin-operated bagatelle, their vertical orientation and extra features such as cups ultimately placed them in a different class of product.  The first known coin-operated bagatelle game was developed by Charles Young, a York, Pennsylvania, billiard hall owner.  A former newspaperman, Young had already deployed a cast iron cigar cutter of his own design before turning his attention to the bagatelle table.  In 1892, young patented his “Coin Game Board,” the earliest known device to incorporate an inclined horizontal playfield enclosed in glass and covered in pins, a spring-loaded plunger, and a coin acceptor.  Few inventors followed Young’s lead, but one bagatelle-style game particularly popular in the period was the “Log Cabin” trade stimulator released by Caille Brothers in 1901, which combined the gambling elements of the drop case games with a horizontal bagatelle field.  Bagatelle trade stimulators were largely overshadowed by the more popular slot machines in this period, however, and the penny arcade remained primarily a venue for peep shows and testers, so the appearance of Log Cabin and a few similar games ultimately failed to lead to a wider adoption of coin-operated bagatelle in that time period.  Once the arcade became a place for games of skill in the late 1920s, however, coin-operated bagatelle returned and quickly prospered.

The Birth of Pinball

Whiffle, the game that launched the pinball craze

Shortly before Christmas 1930, a Youngstown, Ohio, carpenter named Arthur Paulin was cleaning out his barn when he discovered an old board with carved out holes and roughly thirty nails in it. After fiddling around with his discovery for a few days, he came up with the basic design for a Bagatelle-like game he called Whiffle Board. With Youngstown particularly hard hit by the Depression due to the closing of several steel mills, Paulin’s finances were tight, so he decided to make the new game a Christmas gift for his daughter, Lois. When neighborhood kids began lining up around the house to play the game, Paulin thought he might be able to sell it and approached a friend named Myrl Park, who operated a drug store. Park did not think the game would sell as a consumer product, but figured it might take in good money if transformed into a coin-operated game. Paulin therefore took the board to another friend, electrical salesman Earl Froom, who helped him design a coin slot, a ball return, and a glass enclosure among other features. Completed around the middle of January 1931, the final game consisted of a sloped playfield encased in glass with a series of scoring holes surrounded by pins.   For a nickel, the player received ten balls that he could launch with a spring-loaded plunger that would deflect off the pins and into the holes, which each had a specific point value. The game was test-marketed in Park’s store, and after it took in $2.60 of nickels in a single hour, the three formed a partnership called Automatic Industries on January 28, 1931, to sell the machine all over the country. Before long, they were booking orders for over 2,000 Whiffle Board games per month, but could not manufacture boards fast enough to meet the demand.

Whiffle Board was the first coin-operated pin game to be sold in the 1930s, but it was actually the second one developed.  Belgian immigrant George Deprez worked as a janitor in Chicago, but he was a carpenter by trade and interested in building and marketing his own children’s toys.  In the summer of 1929, Deprez created his own marble pin game, and when it proved immensely popular at parties, he had it patented under the name Whoopee, then a hit Eddie Cantor-fronted Broadway show.  The Depression ended Deprez’s hopes of raising capital to sell the new game himself, but in June 1930, Whoopee piqued the interest of a tenant in Deprez’s building, Nick Burns, who ran a shooting gallery and marketed games with his brother through their In & Outdoor Games Company.  Burns bought the rights to the game and placed it on test in several Chicago hotels.  At the Chicago Loop Hotel, the Western Advertising Manager for coin-op trade publication Billboard, Jack Sloan, discovered the game and not only advised Burns to attach a coin slot to the table, but also hooked him up with several local area coin machine industry suppliers to help transform Whoopee into a coin-operated amusement.  First tested in August 1930, Whoopee became the first nationally marketed pin table when Billboard ran an advertisement for the game in its March 28, 1931, issue, with copy written by Sloan himself.

Whiffle Board and Whoopee were both popular, but they were also expensive — selling for over $100 per cabinet — and their creators were not able to manufacture them quickly enough to keep up with demand.  Together, these two factors opened the door to competition.  Perhaps the most intriguing of the early copycats was Charles Chizewar.  Born in Warsaw and trained as a locksmith, Chizewar immigrated to Chicago in 1916.  After being fired from a job for asking for a raise, Chizewar established his own machinery repair shop in the early 1920s and soon expanded into light manufacturing.  In 1929, he established the Hercules Novelty Company to enter the coin-op field and experienced immediate success with a popular grip tester.  With the arrival of the new pin games, Chizewar deployed his own version in May 1931, the Roll-a-Ball.  Chizewar established an economic model more suitable for the Depression, selling his tables for a mere $16.50 and releasing a version that gave the player five balls for a penny instead of the traditional nickel.  Unfortunately, while Chizewar’s machines were cheap, he could not manufacture them any faster than his competitors — quickly falling behind the demand — and his tables were not well crafted.  Therefore, while the Hercules innovation of penny play proved vitally important to the industry, the company ultimately failed.

Baffle Ball, the game that launched the pinball industry

Throughout 1931, pin tables were gaining adherents in certain parts of the United States, but a lack of reliable manufacturers served to inhibit the game’s influence and reach.  The man who finally transformed the pin table business from a struggling cottage industry into a dominant force in coin-operated amusement was David Gottlieb.  Born in Milwaukee in 1900, Gottlieb moved to Texas in his early twenties on the advice of a friend, coin machine manufacturer Al Walzer, and earned a living operating punch boards — wooden tables full of holes stuffed with scraps of paper listing cash or merchandise prizes from which a patron could select for a fee — across East Texas oil fields. Eventually, he moved from punch boards to cinema, carting a movie projector across the state with his brother in a Model T to exhibit films, while also selling countertop games and slot machines.  After Texas started cracking down on slot machines, Gottlieb moved to Chicago in 1927 and established D. Gottlieb and Company to market a countertop grip tester manufactured on his behalf by Chizewar.  When the machine proved popular, Chizewar established Hercules to sell the tester himself, leading Gottlieb to begin his own manufacturing operation to create and market a competing product called the Husky Grip Tester. College educated and business savvy, Gottlieb grew his business rapidly, moved into a new modern factory on Chicago’s West Side in 1930, and gained a reputation for a well-run manufacturing operation.  This attracted the attention of entrepreneurs Nate Robin and Al Rest.

Robin, a Jewish immigrant, operated a small coin-op repair shop and refurbished slot machines.  When he first saw Chizewar’s Roll-a-Ball, he realized there could be great profit in designing his own version of the pin game and partnered with Rest, a key player at the Lawndale Sash and Door Company, to create his own version called Bingo.  The pair set up a small manufacturing operation, but like so many others before them quickly fell behind demand.  The pair therefore gave Gottlieb exclusive manufacturing and distribution rights to Bingo, which he completely redesigned to improve the quality and make it easier to manufacture.  First advertised by Gottlieb in September 1931, Bingo proved so popular that not even he could keep up with the orders, so he subcontracted manufacturing to another firm managed by Jack Keeney.

Jack Keeney, one of the earliest coin-op distributors

Born in Jefferson, Iowa, in 1892, Keeney learned the coin trade early from his father, John B. Keeney, who began operating Mills slot machines at the turn of the twentieth century and established the J.B. Keeney Company, one of the first regional coin-op distributors, to sell machines across Northern Iowa.  When Jack and his brother William entered the business, John Keeney changed the name of his company to Keeney & Sons.  Jack gave up what could have been a promising football career to work for his father at age seventeen after graduating high school and led the expansion of the company into Minnesota.  As the Keeney family continued to grow its business over the next few years, their distribution territory eventually spanned from Detroit to Seattle.  In 1916, Keeney & Sons moved from Jefferson to Chicago to be closer to the coin machine manufacturers and inaugurated a mail order distribution business that allowed the company to sell machines across the entire United States and become the largest distributor in the nation.  John Keeney retired in 1926, but the firm continued to operate under Jack and William until November 1933, when it was terminated.  A new firm, J.H. Keeney and Company, replaced it in January 1934.  In 1931, the Keeney brothers were just starting their own manufacturing operation, so they were happy to take on Bingo for Gottlieb.  With both Gottlieb and Keeney producing Bingo, the pin game soon became one of the leading coin-operated products in the Midwest.

With Bingo proving such a massive hit, Robin and Rest reneged on their exclusive deal with Gottlieb when they were approached by a Chicago tool and die maker named Leo Berman, who started manufacturing the game in competition with Gottlieb.  Unlike Gottlieb, Berman made deals with distributors across the United States to sell the game, allowing the pin game to break out of the Midwest and become a national sensation for the first time.  Faced with this new development, Gottlieb returned to the drawing board and created his own pin game called Baffle Ball, which was better engineered and used higher quality components than Bingo.  He also set up a more efficient manufacturing operation based on the assembly line method that had transformed the automobile industry, making Baffle Ball the first pin game to achieve true high volume production.  Released in November 1931 through Keeney, with a Gottlieb version following soon after, Baffle Ball‘s combination of high quality and assembly line production allowed it to dominate the competition and become the first blockbuster pinball table.  Before long, Gottlieb had taken over 75,000 orders for Baffle Ball, and even at a manufacturing peak of 400 cabinets a day, could only fill roughly 55,000 of them.

Ray Moloney, the founder of the Bally Manufacturing Company

In 1931, when Whiffle Board and Bingo started spreading around the country, no pinball games were shown at the annual coin machine trade show. In 1932, with Baffle Ball a national sensation, roughly sixty games crowded the show floor, and over one hundred pinball games were introduced over the course of the year. Of the many people to enter the market that year, two stood above the rest: Dave Rockola and Ray Moloney.   A Canadian by birth, Rockola owned a cigar store as a young man, but he moved to Toronto and then Chicago to work in the slot machine industry when he realized that the slot machine at the store counter took in more money than the store itself.   In 1927, he established the Rockola Scale Company to market his own coin-operated scale, which later changed its name to the Rock-ola Manufacturing Company. In the middle of 1932, Rockola released a pinball game called Juggle Ball that gave the player a limited amount of control once the ball entered the playing field via a sliding arm mechanism with a metal bumper that ran through the middle of the cabinet. While this game proved a failure that left Rockola $120,000 in debt, he convinced his creditors to lend him more money to produce a more traditional pinball game, released in August 1933 as Jigsaw, which sold over 73,000 units and became a hit not only in the United States, but in England and France as well. In 1934, Rockola had another huge success with a baseball-themed game called World Series that moved over 50,000 units.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Raymond T. Moloney wandered the country for several years engaged in a number of trades, working in a steel mill in Cleveland, trying his luck in the oil fields of Texas and Oklahoma, harvesting crops in the West, and working in sugar refineries in the South.  During his travels, he became acquainted with coin-operated machines, and in his early twenties he relocated to Chicago determined to enter the field.  In 1921, Moloney secured a job at a print shop owned by Joe Linehan and Charlie Weldt called the Joseph P. Linehan Printing Company that had a side business creating punchboards.  Moloney soon became fast friends with his employers, and in 1922 the trio decided to form a new company to take over the punchboard business, which they named Lion Manufacturing Company after deciding to make use of stationary ordered from Linehan Printing by a company of that name that had never been picked up.  In 1925, the trio bought out one of the suppliers of prizes for its punchboards and established the Midwest Novelty Company as a subsidiary of Lion to distribute coin-operated products such as slot machines and trade stimulators via mail order.  Moloney served as president of Lion and Midwest Novelty, while his partners remained focused on the printing business.

Ballyhoo, the game that launched Bally

When Baffle Ball took off, Moloney realized the future of the industry was in pin games — at least in the short term — and attempted to secure a steady supply of Baffle Ball cabinets for Midwest Novelty.  When Gottlieb could not supply games fast enough, however, Moloney hatched a sheme to manufacture his own.  At first Linehan and Welt refused to back a manufacturing operation, but Moloney persuaded them to provide limited funding on the condition that they could pull out as soon as they recouped their initial investment.  All three partners believed they were just taking advantage of a passing fad and planned to end manufacturing when they had cleared $100,000.  In November 1931, Moloney began working his network of coin-op contacts to find a new game design, leading freelance designers Oliver Van Tyle and Oscar Bloom to walk into his office looking for a royalty deal on a new pingame.  Moloney liked their game, but felt the prototype was too plain to sell as is.  To make the table more eye-catching, he designed a colorful playfield based on the cover of the December 1931 edition of satirical magazine Ballyhoo.  Not wanting to risk their existing business, Moloney, Linehan, and Weldt incorporated a new subsidiary of Lion to produce the new machine on January 10, 1932, and named it the Bally Manufacturing Company.  Released under the name Ballyhoo and backed by aggressive advertising, Moloney’s game rocketed Bally to the top of the industry as the firm sold 50,000 units in just seven months and 75,000 units over the life of the game.  A second hit, Goofy, followed before the end of the year, and the next year, Bally released a third hugely successful game called Airway that played a critical role in expanding the popularity of pinball to Europe and included the first example of a primitive totalizer, which allowed the player to keep track of his own score.  In Airway, each scoring hole could only be entered once, which would cause a reel to flip and display the value for the hole.  At the end of the game, the player could add up the exposed values to determine his final score.

Several factors aided the rise of pinball to the top of the new coin-op amusement industry. First, unlike most contemporary coin-op games like the elaborate diggers and Chester-Pollard sports games, pinball cabinets were cheap. Ballyhoo and Baffle Ball only cost $16.50 per unit, and machines from smaller outfits could run even cheaper. Therefore, even at the height of the Depression a would-be operator could scrape together the funds to buy a few machines and enjoy a significant return on investment via coin drop.  Furthermore, pintables were small and able to fit on a countertop, making them suitable for many different types of business establishments.   Finally, with no moving parts other than the plunger, early pinball machines were easy to keep in working order.   As a result, pinball could be found nearly everywhere, not just in Sportlands, arcades, and amusement parks, but also in roadside stands, bus and rail depots, gas stations, cafés, drug stores, tobacco stores, and barber shops. The game received its biggest boost, however, when Prohibition finally ended in 1933 and pinball became a staple of the bars and taverns that could once again operate legally.

Pinball Evolves

Harry Williams, brilliant pinball innovator

With pinball so popular and competition so fierce among the two hundred or so companies that released at least one pinball machine during the 1930s, it did not take long for the simple game to become increasingly sophisticated as engineers began looking for any edge to help them stand out from the crowd.  As a result, by the end of the 1930s, pinball had evolved from a small, simple game with few moving parts to an action-packed electromechanical exhibition of flashy sights and sounds.   Several people and companies contributed to this transformation, but the most important pinball innovator of the decade by far was Harry Williams.

Born in 1906 in New York, Williams relocated to Los Angeles when he was fifteen years old.  After heading north to complete an engineering degree at Stanford, Williams moved to Hollywood in 1929 to produce advertising films, but he quickly found himself out of work when the Depression took hold. Recently married, Williams needed a new job fast, so he answered an ad offering sales of a new coin-op game called Jai-alai, in which the player attempted to flip a cork ball into a basket.  The salesman for the game convinced Williams that all he needed to to was plop a game on location and financial success would follow, so he bought five of the $100 machines, which used up all his savings.  In reality, his machines fared poorly.  Some time later, Williams observed a long line of people waiting to play Whiffle Board in a lunchroom near Universal Studios and realized he had backed the wrong horse, but at this point he had no money to buy any more machines. He therefore decided to try building his own pin game and bought out the owner of a company called Automatic Amusements in early 1933.

Williams’s first product was a replacement board for a Mills game called Official that he sold for five dollars and could be substituted in existing cabinets. He then created his first original game in the second half of 1933, Advance, which he sold to Seeburg. Advance contained the first of many Williams innovations: a metal ball on a pedestal that would dislodge if the player banged on the cabinet too forcefully in an attempt to make his ball enter a scoring hole.   According to Williams, he initially called this innovation the “stool pigeon” until he observed a patron exclaim, “Damn it, I tilted it” after activating the device and decided it should be called the tilt mechanism, though this story may be apocryphal. Regardless of the origin of the name, the tilt soon became a standard device on all pinball machines, although later games replaced the ball with a pendulum device. Despite the innovation, Advance did not sell particularly well, and Williams received little in royalties on the game from Seeburg.

Contact from Harry Williams and Pacific Amusement, the game that set pinball on its modern path

With the failure of Advance, Williams entered a period of financial difficulty and felt that he needed to create something particularly innovative to survive in the coin-op business. After contemplating the problem for some time, he finally had a eureka moment when he decided that the ball should have more “action” and that he should use electro-magnets to provide it. The game Williams crafted around this idea, called Contact, used a device called a solenoid, a coil with a magnet inside that creates opposing magnetic fields when energized with electricity, to kick the ball back onto the playfield once it entered a scoring hole, giving the player an opportunity to score more points. Williams used dry cell batteries to power his game and created a large cabinet that stood on its own legs rather than resting on a countertop, both uncommon features that would soon became standard in the industry. To manufacture the game, Williams turned to a former carburetor manufacture named Fred McClellan who had recently entered the pin game business through a new venture called Pacific Amusements. The game proved successful almost immediately, leading to constant sales calls and an idea for a practical joke. With McClellan’s phone ringing all the time as new orders came in, someone in the showroom decided it would be funny to hook up an electric doorbell to one of the solenoids in one unit so that when the ball was ejected back onto the playfield a bell that sounded just like McClellelan’s telephone would ring and he would rush to answer it. The bell proved to be an excellent attraction feature and became a standard component on the increasingly popular game. Originally able to only produce about ten units of Contact a day, Pacific Amusement opened a new Chicago plant in Spring 1934 and eventually sold over 23,000 units priced at $75.00 each. While Contact was not the first pin game to include electricity, playfield action, a tilt mechanism, or sound effects, no other game had included all of these features in one package.  Contact, quite simply, redefined the game.

In 1935, Williams left Automatic Amusements in the care of his father and headed to Chicago to work for Rockola.  While there, he designed a game called Flash that featured the first instance of a feature that would become central not only to pinball, but also to video games, the awarding of an extra play when the player reached a certain score.  The idea came about because Williams wanted to create a reward that did not involve a payout, a new fad sweeping the pinball industry that Williams was dead set against, and was implemented by a young assistant named Bill Bellah, who came up with the actual mechanism to make the concept work after four weeks of tinkering.  A mechanical genius, Bellah might have become one of the great pinball designers, but just a few months later he suffered a serious head injury during a mugging and had to be committed to an asylum.

Bumper from Bally, the game that popularized the bumper and totalizer scoring

Electricity spearheaded additional innovations on pinball machines, with the most important coming from a small Utica, New York, manufacturer called the Pacent Novelty Manufacturing Company. In 1936, an inventor named W. Van Stoeser created a completely new scoring device called the bumper, which Pacent incorporated into a bowling-themed game called Bolo. The game simulated knocking down ten pins represented by the bumpers, ten long, thin rods attached to coil springs. The goal was to make contact with every bumper, and each time the ball hit one, a corresponding pin on the backglass of the cabinet would light up to indicate that the pin had been knocked down. The new bumper concept proved immediately popular, but Pacent did not have centralized manufacturing capability and had to farm out the building of the game to several local companies, leaving an opening for others to fill the void. As a result, when Bally’s Ray Moloney saw the game in operation, he charged a man named Donald Hooker to develop an improved bumper for Bally, which was incorporated into a 1936 table called, appropriately enough, Bumper. Unlike Bolo, Bumper used traditional pinball scoring with bumpers replacing pins and holes and popularized the totalizer method of keeping score, in which a score reel on the backglass updated each time the ball made contact with a bumper.  Bally’s Bumper game helped move pinball forward in exciting new directions, but another innovation by the company proved to be a giant step backwards.

Pinball Backlash

New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia topples a pinball machine confiscated by the NYPD

In 1933, a New York distributor named Herman Seiden added a dry cell battery to a Bally Airway table in order to power a connected payout slot, which would dispense money if the ball landed in the proper scoring holes.  Seiden shared his innovation with Bally, leading company engineer Herb Breitenstein to develop a game called Rocket, the first purpose-made gambling pinball machine.  The table proved such a massive hit that Moloney decided to buy out Linehan’s and Weldt’s shares of Lion and its subsidiaries and fully commit the company to coin-op manufacturing.  Soon, all the major pinball manufacturers were releasing payout machines alongside their regular games. With the success of these prize games, Ray Moloney took further steps to bring Bally into the coin-operated gambling business with the introduction of two full-fledged gaming machines in 1936, an automatic dice machine called Reliance and the company’s first slot machine, Bally Baby. The success of these machines convinced Moloney to fully enter the gaming business with a full line of slot machines, further blurring the line between coin-operated amusements and coin-operated gambling and setting up the pinball industry for serious difficulties.

Even without payouts, pinball had already been attacked in many circles as a game that incited juvenile delinquency and petty crime and corrupted the youth. Now with the gambling connection as well, it drew attention from crusaders against organized crime, which had already taken advantage of the cash only nature of the slot machine business to take in large sums of untraceable money to fund other illicit operations. With slot machines already pushed to private clubs and casinos by law enforcement efforts to wipe out the industry, politicians believed that pinball machines were an attempt by organized crime to circumvent laws against slot machine operation, and the move to payout models only reinforced these suspicions. As a result, newly elected New York City Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia launched a campaign against pinball machines in 1934 as part of his larger fight against organized crime and began confiscating machines all over the city, while Los Angeles became the first major city to enact a complete ban on the operation of the machines in 1939.   A group of pinball operators subsequently challenged LaGuardia’s actions in court, leading to a major victory for the New York City mayor in 1942 when New York Supreme Court Justice Aaron Levy upheld an earlier ruling from a magistrate that pinball machines were gambling devices and therefore properly subject to seizure. The ruling effectively made the operation of pinball machines illegal in New York City, although they were not formally banned by the city council until 1948. Even Chicago, the center of the industry, banned pinball during the decade. As a result of these actions, pinball manufacturers and operators would be linked with organized crime in the public mind and be forced to wage constant battles over the legality of pinball for more than thirty years.

While the long-term effects of pinball being linked to organized crime were devastating, the entry of the United States into World War II in December 1941 provided a more immediate threat to the industry. With raw materials and parts needed for military production, the government effectively banned the manufacturing of new pinball machines by deeming the amusement industry non-essential to the war effort, so the major pinball manufacturers turned to war-related work for the duration. To fill the void, a small number of designers began creating refurbished games by recycling old cabinets and parts and combining them with new playfield designs. One of the leaders in this field was consistent pinball innovator Harry Williams. While working for Rockola, Williams met a young engineer named Lyndon Durant who quickly impressed him with his design for a new type of score totalizer. The duo left Rockola for Bally in 1937 and then joined Exhibit the next year, but with the start of the war they decided to go into business for themselves and established the United Manufacturing Company in 1941 both to refurbish old games and to seek out lucrative war contracts. In 1942, however, Williams decided to strike out on his own and sold his share in United back to Durant. The next year, he established the Williams Manufacturing Company, which refurbished old games and built radar components for the remainder of the war.

The Flipper

Humpty Dumpty from Gottlieb, the first flipper pinball game

With the conclusion of World War II in 1945, the coin-op industry entered a boom period as pent up demand for new machines spurred brisk sales. Coin-op firms that turned to war related work during the early 1940s entered the post-war era with both better equipment and larger manufacturing capacity due to wartime innovations, while analysts estimated that nearly 90% of the 5,000,000 pinball machines, coin-operated games, vending machines, and jukeboxes in operation at the start of the war would need to be replaced with newer models. While meeting these needs, pinball designers continued to evolve the game with new concepts as well, with much of the innovation focused on refining the bumper technology that had just started to become a standard feature in the years before World War II.

In 1948, Williams introduced a new type of bumper in its Saratoga game called the pop bumper that would violently kick the ball in a new direction when it made contact, which provided considerably more action on the playfield.   More importantly, however, Gottlieb’s chief designer, Harry Mabs, came up with an idea for a new type of bumper in 1947 he called the flipper bumper that would bat the ball in a new direction when activated. In November 1947, Mabs’s new bumpers debuted on his Humpty Dumpty machine, which featured three pairs of flippers on different parts of the playfield. On the original prototype, these flippers would activate automatically when the ball made contact with a switch, but Mabs discovered that it was more entertaining for the player to activate the flippers himself by pressing a button. This simple tweak transformed pinball from a game of pure chance into one that could be influenced by the skill of the player, and the entire industry immediately recognized that flippers could be the salvation of pinball and insulate the game from accusations of being a gambling device operated by organized crime. Consequently, all the major companies quickly released flipper games into the market, which became so popular that non-flipper games were rendered obsolete nearly instantly. While every company experimented with varying numbers and locations for their flippers, however, a standard configuration soon emerged from one of the smaller companies in the industry named Genco.

Brothers Louis, Meyer, and David Gensburg established Genco Incorporated in Chicago in 1930 to produce coin-operated amusements. Rather than innovate in coin machines, Genco prided itself on taking concepts developed by other companies and then building higher quality versions to carve itself a niche in the crowded pinball market.  The company’s primary pinball designer throughout the 1930s and 1940s was an engineer named Harvey Heiss, but when Humpty Dumpty hit the market, Heiss was in the hospital, and it fell to his young assistant Steve Kordek to complete a new flipper game for the company.   Kordek had only entered the pinball industry by chance in 1936 after dropping out of college to support his family during the Depression and being offered a job at the company while taking shelter from a rainstorm in Genco’s doorway. Kordek started as a solderer on the assembly line, but because he had previously worked at Zenith in high school and studied circuitry during his one year in college, he soon used his knowledge to help the game testers fix faulty designs and was placed in the engineering department as an electrician.   Heiss then took Kordek under his wing and taught him every aspect of making pinball games. The owners of the company therefore came to Kordek with Heiss incapacitated and told him to have a flipper game ready by the coin show in January.

With so little time, Kordek copied Mabs’s basic flipper design, but because Genco was a small company and Heiss had taught Kordek to be conservative in his use of parts, he decided to include only two flippers at the bottom of the playfield. Even more importantly, Kordek chose to power the flippers using direct current rather than alternating current as Mabs had done.   As a result, Kordek’s flippers were far more powerful and could propel the ball across the table unlike the weaker ones used by Gottlieb. Released as Triple Action, Kordek’s game featured flippers that faced out from the center of the table, unlike in modern tables, but in 1950, Mabs created a game for Gottlieb called Just 21 in which the flippers faced inwards, bringing pinball machines to the basic form they still exist in today.

Bright Lights by Bally, the first bingo machine

Between flippers and pop bumpers, pinball changed radically once again as the ball ricocheted around the table at high speeds and the player did his best to keep the game going through a well-placed flipper shot. By this time, however, the reputation of the game had already suffered considerable damage due to payout machines, and it had been shut out of many major cities around the United States. Indeed, not long after the first flipper machines were hitting the market, the industry became the focus of negative attention again as Bally introduced the first Bingo machine in 1951, Bright Lights. Unlike flipper games, Bingo machines required the player to try to complete a successful bingo by launching the ball with the plunger and hoping it landed in the proper holes. A bingo resulted in the player winning a prize, making this new form of pinball a gambling machine designed to bypass the restrictions on earlier forms of payout machines.  These new machines did not escape notice for long.

Jun 11 2004, 5:25 pm     show options

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From: Aeneas <ave...@hotmail.com>

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:25:06 GMT

Local: Fri,Jun 11 2004 5:25 pm

Subject: Re: Help on Sirmo Bingo

Well there are a few problems with older belgian bingos: - most belgian companies are in the french speaking part of belgium, so english emails are maybe even ignored - some of them just had webdesign outsourced and probably never read their email so you have to phone or fax - no-one is interested in supporting private owners of machines, even here in belgium, so probably they just don't care about machines abroad - no-one is interested in the older models and the major problem is: - a lot of these companies have been taken over, so the people there now may not know anything about old models as this was from another company..

A little JGC history:

NV John Gille Co is situated at the heart of Belgian Limbourg. Its name sounds English, yet it is a Belgian company, founded as a one-man business in 1968 by John Gille Sr, whose origins are indeed English. In 1988, the company was turned into a limited liability company: nv John Gille Co. John Gille started with the installation of amusement games in cafes. Since he was in direct touch with the clients, he was also the one who got the most feedback on faults in the design. He started to look for solutions himself, thus creating a basis for the development of the automats. After a certain time, this resulted in the production of games.
In the course of the years, the range of products grew bigger. In 1990, the Belgian company ‘Jupiter’ was taken over, with about the most qualitative table football games on the world market. By now, the range of in-house products consists of table football games, billiard tables and money changers. Next to this, JGC offers an extensive assortment of cafe games.
JGC is at present a limited liability company managed by John Gille, his wife Anneliese Gabriëls and their son Johnny Gille. Together they run a staff of 26 people in a modern commercial building at Zutendaal.

D. The Rise of the Pinball Machine

According to one commentator, slot machine gambling might not have survived World War II if not for the rise of a wholly new form of entertainment--the pinball machine.⁴⁰ First marketed around 1930, early pinball machines were nothing more than glass covered labyrinths (constructed of nails or "pins") into which a player could propel steel balls. Numbered holes, into which the steel balls rolled, provided the player with his or her score. With the advent of electrification, they evolved into the pinball machine still popular today, with an illuminated backboard, ringing bells, flashing lights, and bright colors.

Early pinball machines were designed solely for amusement purposes. In 1935, however, pinball manufacturers added a new feature that ultimately would be seized upon by gambling operators--the free replay.⁴¹ If a player achieved a sufficiently high score, the machine would permit the player to play one or more additional games without depositing another coin.

With the proliferation of the free replay, however, a new controversy arose as to whether free replays transformed pinball machines into gambling devices. Pinball machines clearly exhibited the elements of consideration and chance. Thus, if the free replay was considered a "reward," all of the traditional elements of gambling would be present.

State courts were widely split on the issue of whether free replays constituted a reward.⁴² While this divergence may be attributed to differences in state statutes, there was also a more fundamental difference in perception between those courts that viewed a free replay as a reward⁴³ and those that did not.⁴⁴ The courts that viewed free replays as a reward often expressed concern over the difference in the return that could be received from each coin.⁴⁵ Some of these courts even speculated that free replays might foster the gambling spirit.⁴⁶ Courts taking the contrary position viewed the value of the free replays as de minimis, or merely as part of the play given for the initial coin.⁴⁷ Ultimately, free replays became an accepted standard, and were no longer of great concern to law enforcement agencies.

Gambling operators exploited the free replay feature by adding knock-off switches and meters to amusement-only pinball machines. With the advent of knock-off switches and meters, pinball machines clearly crossed over the gambling threshold. Under this system, the number of free replays is registered on the machine. When the player wants to "cash-in," he or she goes to the proprietor. The size of the payout will depend on the number of replays registered on the machine. The proprietor then flips the knock-off switch, which erases the free replays from the machine. The meter records the number of free replays that have been erased or "knocked off." The machine owner/operator, on a regularly scheduled trip to the location, checks the meter and, from the money in the machine coin box, reimburses the proprietor for all payouts made.⁴⁸ Any remaining profits in the coin box are then split between the proprietor and the operator. The operator and the proprietor are thus left in the same position as if the machine itself had made payments to the successful player.⁴⁹

Although knock-off switches and meters succeeded in transforming pinball machines into gambling devices, the stakes involved were very limited. It was not long, however, before inventive gambling operators found a way around this limitation--the multiple coin slot. The multiple coin slot allowed the player to deposit more than one coin at a time. As a result, a player's payout would increase proportionally to the number of coins deposited. Alternatively, if the player had accumulated several "free replays," he or she could play more than one of them at a time.⁵⁰ With this addition, the player could be playing a "nickel" machine, but still have the chance to win over sixty dollars on a single play.⁵¹ On today's "quarter" machines, the gambler can win up to one thousand dollars.⁵²

History1

Be aware that although pinball was "banned" there were workarounds. Most of the argument against pinball is that is was "gambling" since you could win free games for high scores. What game makers did to work around this problem was create 2 versions of each game they made: a "free game" version and an "add-a-ball" version. The free game version did what you'd expect; a free game for the high score. But the add a ball version would allow you to extend your initial game by adding a free ball for each score threshold. It's a small difference, but it was enough. Wisconsin, New York, and parts of Conneticut and Oklahoma were "Add a ball" territory. So while pinball was banned, there were still machines available for play that you would be hard pressed to differentiate from "regular" pinball. The "add a ball" era ended when pinball machines went solid state in the late 70's. Today, "add a ball" games are considered more collectible and better playing than the "free game" versions. That's because there are fewer of them and an extra ball is more appealing to the home player than a "free" game.
posted by cosmicbandito at 1:33 PM on February 11

Ballerina (bingo), 1959 Bally: $1000
This machine works great and has a payout hopper added. Was used in casinos in Reno, NV. The metal legs were replaced with wooden case type legs to support the hopper for the nickles. It's the old bingo style machine with no flippers and payout is determined by where the balls land and the bingo card up on the screen, which switches automatically. This is a great machine and a blast at parties and gatherings. It would also make an excellent addition to any collection. I just don't have room for it in my new, one bedroom apartment. You arrange for shipping.
Palmdale, California, Northern Los Angeles County

Posted: 18 August 2007

http://www.msi-idaho.com/pinball.htm

Pinball Restoration and Repairs

I have always had a fascination with pinball machines. It started when I was about 4 years old when my father would give me a roll of nickels and let me play the machines in his tavern while he cleaned up on Saturday mornings. Being mechanically inclined anyway, and with help from some old dear friends, I leaned how to rebuild and repair teletype machines used by amateur radio operators and was, for many years, the teletype parts bank for the Air Force MARS (military affiliate radio service) in the region. A couple years ago another friend (my children's godfather to be exact) gave me an old pinball machine. It was a 1957 vintage Bally bingo machine called "Showtime". Seems only 450 of this machine were ever built (very low number as pinball machines go) so I knew finding parts, etc. could be challenging at the least... it was also in pretty poor condition. For those of you who are not familiar with bingo pinball machines, they are essentially a gambling device like the ubiquitous "one arm bandits" but instead of pulling the handle for objects to line up, you shoot five balls onto a field of 25 holes to try to make a three, four or five in a row on a bingo card shown on the backglass display. Different machines have features to make things more interesting. The more money you put in at the start, the more features and/or payout odds are activated. Needless to say, this is about the most complex mechanical monster ever created by man!

I found some support and parts from people with similar interests on the web and after a couple months of work had completely restored the "Showtime" machine to good working condition.

I have my own wood shop so fabricating new wood legs was not a big problem. I also made a stencil of the original artwork on the case so I could restore the pattern after stripping and repairing the bottom case before repainting it with good oil base enamel.

I must say that my favorites are the old electro-mechanical machines. They are the hardest to diagnose, but do have their "favorite" problems that are easy to fix. Parts are getting pretty scarce so it is sometimes necessary to fabricate a new custom part on occasion... all the more of a challenge! Fortunately, circuit diagrams are available for most of these old machines for about $15 each... the possession of such greatly helps in trouble shooting.

PER IL TRIBUNALE DI AVEZZANO IL BINGO ELETTROMECCANICO È UN AM4

A seguito di una operazione della Guardia di Finanza il Tribunale di Avezzano è stato chiamato a decidere sull’attività svolta da un gestore, proprietario di apparecchi da intrattenimento, e un esercente, difesi dall’avvocato Stefano Rossi del Foro di Latina, che proponevano alla clientela un flipper-bingo.  Nella motivazione della sentenza il Giudice “ha sottolineato che le caratteristiche del dispositivo analizzato sono le medesime del flipper convenzionale, consentendo di conquistare punteggio durante la partita in virtù delle proprie abilità ed esperienza al potenziale giocatore: in breve, questi può indirizzare le biglie nelle buche desiderate attraverso la velocità di lancio delle biglie stesse, attraverso due leve situate in basso, azionabili da due tasti pos i esternamente ad esse, potendo influire sul percorso delle biglie lungo il piano inclinato mediante energiche "scosse" date all'apparecchio”. Il Giudice “ha argomentato anche che, proprio in quanto non è stata trovata traccia di dispositivi per l’erogazione di premi (niente tickets, nessuna erogazione di monete e/o banconote, come invece oggetto di contestazione), trattasi di congegni rientranti nella categoria degli apparecchi etici AM4 (ovverosia apparecchi elettromagnetici attivabili a monete o gettone, ovvero a tempo, flipper — gioco al gettone azionato da ruspe - gioco elettromagnetico dei dardi o similari) per i quali si richiede semplicemente che l'apparecchio sia di tipo elettromeccanico e sia attivato a moneta o a gettone”.
Il Giudice ha aggiunto, infine, “proprio per tali insite caratteristiche gli apparecchi in questione non richiedono il preventivo nulla osta rilasciato dall'Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato”.

THE BINGO IS AN ELECTROMECHANICAL AM4

giovedì 09 aprile 2009 Thursday, April 9, 2009

PER IL TRIBUNALE DI AVEZZANO IL BINGO ELETTROMECCANICO È UN AM4 . FOR THE COURT OF THE BINGO AVEZZANO ELECTROMECHANICAL IS A AM4. A seguito di una operazione della Guardia di Finanza il Tribunale di Avezzano è stato chiamato a decidere sull'attività svolta da un gestore, proprietario di apparecchi da intrattenimento, e un esercente, difesi dall'avvocato Stefano Rossi del Foro di Latina , che proponevano alla clientela un flipper-bingo . Following an operation of the Guardia di Finanza, the Court of Avezzano was called to decide on the activities performed by an operator, owner of amusement machines, and an operator, defended by Stefano Rossi of the Forum of Latin America, which proposed to score a bingo-pinball. Nella motivazione della sentenza il Giudice “ha sottolineato che le caratteristiche del dispositivo analizzato sono le medesime del flipper convenzionale , consentendo di conquistare punteggio durante la partita in virtù delle proprie abilità ed esperienza al potenziale giocatore: in breve, questi può indirizzare le biglie nelle buche desiderate attraverso la velocità di lancio delle biglie stesse, attraverso due leve situate in basso, azionabili da due tasti pos In the grounds of the Judge "noted that the characteristics of the device are analyzed the same conventional pinball, allowing you to gain points during the game by virtue of his skill and experience to potential player in short, they can direct balls into holes you want through the launch velocity of the balls themselves, by two levers located at the bottom, can be operated by two buttons i esternamente ad esse, potendo influire sul percorso delle biglie lungo il piano inclinato mediante energiche "scosse" date all'apparecchio”. The externally to them, could affect the path of the marbles along the inclined plane by energetic shock "given unit. Il Giudice “ha argomentato anche che, proprio in quanto non è stata trovata traccia di dispositivi per l'erogazione di premi (niente tickets, nessuna erogazione di monete e/o banconote, come invece oggetto di contestazione), trattasi di congegni rientranti nella categoria degli apparecchi etici AM4 (ovverosia apparecchi elettromagnetici attivabili a monete o gettone, ovvero a tempo, flipper — gioco al gettone azionato da ruspe - gioco elettromagnetico dei dardi o similari) per i quali si richiede semplicemente che l'apparecchio sia di tipo elettromeccanico e sia attivato a moneta oa gettone”. The judge "has also argued that, precisely because it was no trace of devices for the delivery of prizes (no tickets, no payments of money and / or notes, as they contested), the case of devices falling within the category appliances ethical AM4 (ie electromagnetic devices activated by coins or tokens, or time, pinball machines - coin operated game from bulldozers - Electromagnetic game of darts or the like) for which simply requires that the device is electromechanical and is coin or token activated. Il Giudice ha aggiunto, infine, “proprio per tali insite caratteristiche gli apparecchi in questione non richiedono il preventivo nulla osta rilasciato dall'Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato”. The judge added, finally, "because of inherent characteristics such devices in question do not require prior clearance issued by the Administration of State Monopolies Autonomous."

Incluso un viejo "Bingo" en forma de pinball, el cabrón incluso enciende aún.

http://www.retrovicio.org/foro/showthread.php?2812-Aviso-al-C.C.-(Comando-Cordob%C3%A9)/page25

Italian Belgium Bingo Article

In Belgio arriva la bingo-slot: un po� pinball e un po� slot-machine

sabato 04 marzo 2006

Fonte: Jamma

Vedremo cosa sapranno inventarsi in Belgio gli operatori dell�automatico dopo l�entrata in vigore di una norma che rimedia ( diciamo cos� in via ripataroria) alla messa al bando di ogni tipo di apparecchio automatico a premio fuori dalle case da gioco . In un rapporto pubblicato oggi la Commissione sul Gioco, l�organismo statale che regolamenta il settore, si spiega quali saranno le cara tteristiche di questo strano ibrido, a met� tra la slot e il bingo, l�apparecchio simile al flipper e dotato di un piano con buche. La normativa belga consente la sola installazione di questa tipologia di apparecchi a vincita, per altro vietata ad esempio in Francia, e oggi, come aveva gi� anticipato un rapporto del governo elaborato nel 2004 , sar� possibile apportare delle modifiche agli apparecchi tipo bingo. I premi per�, come chiarisce la circolare, distribuiti con la modalit� slot dovranno essere erogati sulla base del risultato della palla giocata. Le probabilit� di vincere premi con la modalit� slot non potranno superare il 35%di media. Questa probabilit� viene calcolata dividendo il numero dei fori vincenti per il numero totale dei fori. � Fino a poco tempo fa� si legge nel rapporto della Commissione � la parola slot rinviava ai giochi autorizzati nelle case da gioco , ed � stata oggetto di numerose discussioni� I produttori utilizzavano formule in base alle quali il gioco complementare era pi� importante del gioco originale, le animazioni restano a margine del gioco : le corse dei cammelli sono compara

e alla corse dei cavali ecc� Nel 2004 perci� fu emanata una nota secondo che stabilisce che le animazioni o i giochi alternativi sono autorizzati a patto che non rinviino ad un gioco autorizzato nelle case da gioco. Il gioco di base deve restare del tipo Bingo. Il piano di gioco sul quale si giocano le biglie deve essere pi� grande di quello del gioco alternativo. L�animazione o il gioco alternativo devono restare neutrali e non possono mai influenzare la perdita media oraria della macchina. Se il giocatore ha la possibilit� di fare una scelta, la macchina dovr� consentirgli di scegliere tra le diverse opzioni possibili che potr� accettare o rifiutare. Fino al 16 marzo 2006 sar� possibile ottenere il rilascio del nulla osta per macchine con animazione �slot� ma solo se l�opzione non somiglia per grafica o modus operandi all�animazione �slot�. Fino al 1 gennaio 1007 un upgrade per il software con animazione �slot�. Fino al 1 gennaio 2009 la macchina con animazione slot potranno ancora essere operative, dopodich� la �slot� dovr�, dopo il termine, essere ritirata�. La normativa prevede anche entro l�anno gli apparecchi tipo bingo vengano collegati ad un server centrale che trasmetta i dati di gioco alla Commissione per il Gaming. Gli operatori per� lamentano i molti difetti di un sistema di connessione che funziona male e troppo lentamente. Le informazioni infatti vanno trasmesse ogni 24 ore e le macchine devono essere accese durante il trasferimento dei dati

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Apr 30 at 9:14 AM

Hi Danny,

I got a laugh when I saw a screen shot of my want ad on the MAACA forum.

maaca (Canada) _ Wanted Bingo Pinball

I must say my post was completely unsuccessful! Not a single reply!

I'm a fan of your website. I have a few games of my own: 2X Super Wall Street, Surf Club, Miss Universe, Coney Island. I'm currently fixing up a Carnival Queen (It's in terrible shape. It had a long and rough life. The last game license on it is from 1987) and the next game lined up for repair is a Golden Gate.

I fix up games for fun. Time flies when I'm working on a game. I don't do much cosmetic work but I properly overhaul all the mechanics and keep the cabinets structurally sound.

Bingo games are very rare around here. They were never widely operated back in the day (except in Montreal) and back then were periodically seized by the police. They became outright illegal in the early 90's. Most machines ended up in the landfills. They were considered worthless so collectors didn't bother keeping them. Nowadays in Quebec they are legal to have at home but can't be used commercially. Bingo collectors are few and far between in the province.

I have attached a picture of my games room. I hope you will post it in the "Bingos intermixed with pinballs"

Thank you for your website.

Cheers!

J-F Parizeau

Chit Chat

 Danny,

I've just realized that I've been looking at your website for just over three hours and I've not even scratched the surface regarding all of the information you've stored on it.

So, I just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed reading everything and how much I look forward to reading the rest (hopefully at my leisure).

I've attached a couple of pictures that I hope you find interesting especially the wonderfully and expertly restored Big Wheel which was on view at the recent retro 'Collector Fantasies' fair in Mechelen, Belgium.

I see from the pictures labelled 'Holland' you've managed to capture one of 'Ed' (Blue denim jacket, brown trousers) who has to be one of the great Bally Bingo electro mechanical engineers in the world.

Anyway, he and his friend 'Frans' beautifully restore Bally Bingo machines (usually pre-ordered by someone to whom they've been recommended) and sell them on for almost no profit but mainly to cover their costs and to keep Bally Bingo machines alive. They've recently restored a Key West for me and are now working on a County Fair.

Your great website is helping to keep the dream alive, well done pal!

Sincere regards, John Lee-Thompson

Bally Bingo Colector and player

Northamptonshire United Kingdom

Johnnys ebay add

Here is a Magic-Dixieland Bingo style pinball machine. It works and looks great. Manual is included. Backglass is excellent.Playfield is excellent. Cabinet is very good with the usual scratches and such that is typical of these. It was made by a company in Belgium call "The Slot Construction Company".  It is very well built . Even the glass is about twice as thick as the older ones. It is made for commercial use but is alot of fun for home use also. It has a working bill acceptor but will not accept newer 5,10,or 20's. It accepts 1's just fine. It is a fully electronic solid state machine therefore it does not have all the contacts and steppers to keep clean and adjusted as the old EMs do. It is loaded with all the features taken from Ballys "Dixieland" plus it has several more . Such as 3,4, or 5 in a row on the playfield wins, 23,24 &25 hit wins. You can get upto 5 extra balls for a predetermined amount. Back in the day these were found in the back rooms of bars, and little mom 'n pop stores. What you would do is try to win credits. And if you did win credits you could play them off or you could cash them in with the bartender/clerk.

_ John “rips it up” on a couple of Bingos! _

Jun 6, 2012

Danny, WOW. I appreciate your support for my new habit, LOL! I know lots of people have a bunch of these and other games and I'm sure get as much enjoyment from playing them, but WOW! After fixing all day and playing all night it was the best time I've played in years. Going back and forth from a 20 hole to a 25 hole was tough but the old number sequences I had used 30 years ago came back pretty fast. I beat my Mystic gate for a 5 in color rite after a 4 star 100 pay, I beat my new Circus Queen with a five in bonus striped red and in green as well topped it off with 2 extra balls and topped out the counter with 4 in yellow too! Then I took on my Show Time, best I could do was 58 credit win 4 in a row, the odds don't go up very fast at all and its hard to get after fifth ball and before fifth ball features , so its my "hard case" for now. But for now at least all features all lights and all is working as it should and there is no better entertainment for me than this. I am going to go to the expo in Chicago this year ( I'm from Chicago) for the first time. and then to the warehouse full of these and other bingos in South Carolina it should be a good year 2012. I will put up the pics I took yesterday next week , I'm a little busy at the moment LOL. John

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．Coin pushers have been improved in many aspects.  There were Keaon/Ally Star's "Fishing Fun" and "Magic Jewelry," Excellence's "Pirates," and Le Chi Hwa's "Rave Party."

2. Bingo and keno games:
Known for splendid special effects, bingo ball machines are also favored by a lot of players.  This year, Bingotimes displayed "Bingo B Series," Lon Sheng got "Bingo Galaxy II," Le Chi Hwa had "Happy Colored Ball" and Homer showed various types of Bingos.   
http://www.taiwanslot.com.tw/web2011/cht/index.php

Key West (bingo), 1956 Bally: $1795.00
Original bingo w/nice cabinet, playfield, backglass. Comes w/schematic/instruction cards like new. Parts catalog, new light posts, new rubber, abcd-2-18 spot, Bally hole, 16-corners score, green 5 in a line. From my private collection. Great addition to your game room or business. Plays great.
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Gurnee, Illinois 60031

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La police des jeux dans les cafés

(21/01/2011)

© BAUWERAERTS

Pour la première fois depuis le 1/1/11, l’Horeca doit choisir entre bingos et paris sportifs

BRUXELLES Hier après midi, la police des jeux a procédé au contrôle d’une dizaine d’établissements dans l’Horeca, cafés, tavernes, etc. Il s’agissait de la première opération du genre en Belgique. En effet, depuis le 1er janvier 2011, les débits de boissons qui exploitent des jeux de bingo ne peuvent plus organiser des paris sportifs.

Entre les bingos et les paris sportifs, les établissements doivent avoir choisi. L’exploitation des bingos nécessite la délivrance préalable, par la Commission des jeux de hasard, d’une licence C. Pour les paris sportifs pratiqués au départ de bornes internet, l’exploitant doit être détenteur d’une licence F.

Tous les paris sportifs sont concernés, matchs de foot tant en Belgique qu’à l’étranger, résultats de hockey, compétitions de ski, courses de chevaux, de chiens, cyclisme, etc. Il est interdit depuis le 1er janvier dans l’Horeca belge de cumuler licences C et F. Et l’opération menée hier avait pour objectif de vérifier que les patrons d’établissements ne commettent pas d’entorse. Elle avait lieu à Gand. Des opérations semblables sont programmées en Wallonie et en Région bruxelloise.

La loi a prévu des peines d’amende entre 26 et 100.000 €.

En outre, la police des jeux n’exclut pas de s’attaquer aux sociétés organisatrices de paris sportifs. Si les établissements sont tenus de posséder la licence F (plus exactement F2), la licence F1 est réservée aux sociétés de paris sportifs. Et si des infractions récurrentes sont constatées au niveau des F2, la police des jeux demandera aux sociétés de paris titulaires de la licence F1 d’expliquer les dérapages constatés. Elle vise surtout les sociétés de paris actives en Belgique bien qu’opérant depuis l’étranger.

C’est une procédure judiciaire. Compétente pour les paris sportifs (et c’est aussi une innovation depuis le 1er janvier), la police des jeux est un service de la police judiciaire fédérale.

La loi applicable est celle du 7 mai 1999 modifiée.

En interdisant aux établissements Horeca d’exploiter simultanément les bingos et les paris sportifs, la Commission des jeux veut favoriser un contrôle plus efficace des jeux d’argent. La licence F qui régit les paris sportifs (un secteur en plein essor en Belgique !) implique des obligations accrues (enregistrement des parieurs, mises d’argent plafonnées…) destinées à protéger le public. Selon nos infos toujours, les premiers résultats de ces contrôles étaient hier soir encourageants.

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Il pillait les bingos à Mouscron: des milliers d’€ de préjudice

Près de 10.000 euros... - D.R.

Par C.K.

| Publié le 8/03/2017 à 19:23

Le 13 août 2015, une serveuse du café «le Batchu» appelle la police de Mouscron car elle semble avoir démasqué l’homme qui est soupçonné d’avoir dévalisé une série de Bingos dans des cafés à Mouscron. Quelques jours plus tôt, le placeur des jeux de hasard avait signalé des suspicions de fraudes sur ses jeux placés au Café de la Paix, au Café des Brasseurs, eu Batchu et au Donaldson.

Lawtons Book

Product Description

United and Bally were the only two true US manufacturers of bingo pinball machines, and in the 1950s they fought an all-out battle to capture the elusive bingo pinball machine market. This comparative history details the intriguing story of mid-century, American industrial and entertainment innovation that pitted United engineer, Lyndon Durant and Bally's Don Hooker against each other in a battle royale to produce the best bingo pinball machine. Through more than 200 photos and illustrations detailing 60 games, Jeffrey Lawton, premier bingo pinball machine enthusiast, introduces Durant's United games and the simultaneous, and sometimes retaliatory, creative efforts employed by Hooker from 1951 to 1957. Lawton's analysis is complete with photos of rare games and playfields and descriptions of complex bingo pinball circuitry.

About the Author

Jeffrey Lawton is a collector of bingo pinball machines and expert on United and Bally games. He lives in Ohio.

1951 United's Leader 3 Card Antique Pinball Machines (SE Pdx) $650

Location: Portland, Oregon, USA

Date Posted: December, 2009

Price: Free

Included in this posting is one complete machine that works, and could use adjustments. Also included is enough spare parts to probably build another complete machine. There is also a box of extra mechanical pieces. Please use the link provided to read more online a document that describes the history of the company and individual that created these fun games. Similar games of this vintage are selling for thousands of dollars. With a little restoration work on your own this machine could be worth alot of money! I'm no expect on these machines but will try to answer what questions you may have. Please respond to adv with a telephone number that you can be contacted at. http://www.marvin3m.com/wmswood/index.htm http://www.gameroomantiques.com/kdpinball.htm

Licensing Board Decides to Ban Pinball Machines

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

December 9, 1959

The Cambridge Licensing Board has announced that it will not renew pinball machine licenses after Jan. 1. an internal revenue Bureau decision imposing a special tax on such machines was responsible for the decision. Mrs. Blanche Ryan, secretary to the Board, said yesterday. She said the ban will affect "pinball machines," but not shuffleboard or miniature bowling games. The ruling drew sharp comment from the owner of the company which distributes the common-type pinball machines used in three local restaurants --Elsie's Lunch, Mikes' Club, and Thommy's Arcade. The distributor said the Board's ruling was "prejudiced" and based on "capricious thinking"; he questioned whether the board, which has permitted operation of these machines for the past ten years, should be arbitrary merely because it has the right. The Licensing Board's decision is final and not subject to City Council or City Manager approval.

Saying the Federal government had imposed a special tax on so-called gambling machines (those types employing multiple coin and free game devices which build up odds), the distributor asserted that his machines are purely for amusement. The Internal Revenue office ruled specifically on the bino-type pinball machines, not the kind in the three restaurants, the firm's owner claimed. Hence, he continued, the City Licensing Board's decision is unjustified.He also cited decisions by the Boston and Watertown Licensing Boards, which did not ban these "amusement" machines.

Modello - vendita effettuata su eBay o altro	Costruttore		Condizioni (1 stella: buono al massimo da ricambi, se ci sono tutti; parti arrugginite, forse mancano schede, piano e plastiche rovinate o rotte; 2 stelle: sembra decente, magari non perfetto, ma passabile; 3 stelle: per quello che e' dato vedere, e' acceso e funzionante, le parti o zone del piano note in questo modello per dare problemi qui sembrano ok, non ci sono difetti apprezzabili; 4 stelle: sembra nuovo, le foto sono tante e mostrano il gioco acceso e funzionante, zone esterne del mobile, interne del piano e plastiche note in questo modello per l'usura, qui sono intonse, quindi... Idem per un flipper piu' datato, con le dovute considerazioni)	F/NF (funzionante, non funzionante)		prezzo venduto o fine asta (jn Euro)				anno e mese vendita
Tiger Rag (bingo) (link)		Bell Games (bingo italiano made in Bologna, anni '80)			**		F	100	2011-14

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Voyez aussi nos autres ventes de machine a sous. Vitre de bingo 6 cartes Louisiana, mais ce qui est interessant est le système placé autour de cette vitre. Un cadre en metal (voir photo dans lequel se trouve 2 éclairages au néon (d'ailleurs un est à remplacer). Très pratique et évidemment magnifique une fois fixé au mur car la vitre donne un éclairage superbe. La vitre est fixé simplement avec du silicone, donc en passant avec une lame entre la vitre et le cadre elle s'enlevera dans le cas ou vous comptez y mettre votre vitre favorite. la dimension de la vitre est de 60 x 83,5 cm. et la marge de securité du cadre au cas ou vous voulez placé une autre vitre est d'au moins 1 cm, donc avec une vitre de 59 x 82 cm il n'y aurait pas de problème pour la fixer avec du silicone au cadre. Même avec une seule dimension cela ira aussi (longueur ou largeur) et le reste vous devriez le couvrir avec une feuille de plastique noir par exemple. L'epaisseur du cadre est de 10cm. Livré par federal express avec assurance ou par transport privé à vos frais ou enlévement à notre bureau sur bruxelles (Uccle). Important, (dans les 5 jours qui suivent la fin de la vente). Pour la france voyez nos tarifs de transport express plus bas. Bruxelles se situe a moins de 100 km de valenciennes et 75km de Maubeuge, donc si vous habitez aussi dans le nord de la france nous vous conseillons de venir enlever l'objet à notre bureau. Impossible par la poste car trop fragile.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means · 1953 · Income tax

The next witness is Mr. Benjamin M. Becker on behalf of United Manufacturing Co. , of Chicago , Ill . , accompanied by Martin M. Nelson on behalf of Bally ...

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Magic ring selling on ebay for $799

YUP!...A real Bally "MAGIC RING" Bingo Pinball Machine!!! Just received it in my inventory and have had it shopped perfectly...It lights up like the Vegas Skyline! (I apologize for the dimly lighted pictures) Absolutely gorgeous machine...impressive game play...very unique! Playfield is a 8 1/2; cabinet is a 9; backglass is a 9+; side art is a 9; NOS light diffusers and all books/wiring diagrams.(see pics). Some of it's features include color rotation scoring; double/double-double or nothing scoring; A thru E scoring sections; diamond ring spotted number scoring (300/600); before and after the fifth ball feature; blue-green-red and white selected scoring features...just to name a few. This machine plays and looks great...you be the judge...one of the rarest bingos ever built...(2 model yrs only) I have two, but it will be awhile before the second is ready...this one is ready NOW! TO: Crate and transport to Forward Air and then to ship to your serviced location is a flat rate $250.00. More questions call: Bud @ (870)426-5244 before 11PM please. I have a modest reserve to cover our cost of reconditioning...of course. Good luck and bid often...this one's a keeper!! Paypal and Billpoint gladly accepted. (disclaimer)...Anyone that is close enough to come and play this machine before bidding may do so if they wish, however..it is being sold as-is without warranty as we cannot control the shippers handling of machines...thank you. Bud

Magic Screen

Features

Better viewed with the 15" TFT screen

Multilanguage ENG, FR, NL, other on request

The information shown through the TFT, makes it very easy to play the four different games, this will attract NEW PLAYERS

Two versions: Magic Wheel and Magic Bonus

Approval

# B02 - 001008

Specifications

Height	202 cm
Width	70 cm
Depth	132 cm
Weight	155 Kg

The 1980 Malibu Beach is the last of the great Bally bingo pinball machines built. And to cap their last production machine they chose to use the magic screen OK setting. The magic screen and OK combination was the most favored machine by a majority of players.

This machine has been in my collection for 6 years. It has been completely restored, less paint scheme. The metal door and legs have been freshly painted, and the wood has been stripped and coated with poly. All of the internals have been shopped and cleaned including the mixer and control unit which have been disassembled and new leather clutches installed.  All weak coils and latch mechanisms have been changed. The screen is tight and accurate. The magic screen was removed and cleaned and polished. The playfield has been cleaned and new rubbers installed. Strong quiet motors.

A NOS heavy spring ball shooter was added and NOS left and right and R buttons installed.

The backglass is perfect and it had arrived with a protective layer of film to preserve it. The 4 digit replay counter is clean and white. New locks installed on coin door and rear access door. I have modified the "come back" key on the left side of the machine and it is capable of putting as many games on the counter as you want by simply holding the key in the on position. Original Bally "come back" key had to be stroked each time for every game added.

Up for auction is a vintage 1955 bingo pinball machine made by United called Manhattan.Very solid old machine lots of maple wood used in trim and legs.Graphics are vibrant and original the stained glass backboard is multi colored and in excellent shape just a small amount of paint cracking mostly on the top edge but not very noticeable.Paint all around is very good,some scuffing in a few areas but to be expected because of the age and nothing serious at all.Machine has the 4 original large stainless steel playing balls.Playing field is in excellent condition as well with lots of cool 50's graphics with solid colors as well.The machine is mechanically all t nothing missing or broken in the works dept. all the wiring is present.(shematics for the wiring were found on Ebay and I am in the process of purchasing them,they will be included in the sale when they arrive) Machine will need some tweeking, it lights up,you can shoot the balls but they don't light the playing cards up.T are a few burned out bulbs and one bulb cover missing, this could be the cause,they can be purchased in Vancouver at John's jukes on Main st.The steel balls are suposed to return but aren't ,probably just an adjustment or two needed tOne small piece of maple rail trim is missing on the front,not very noticeable could be found on a wrecked machine as these pieces were commonly used on other machines as well.One metal adjuster is missing on the bottom of one of the legs ,also an easy replacement or take the other 3 off to compensate. I bought this about 15 years ago and always had it in a family games room setting,it looks quite cool when lit up at night.The playing field and stained back glass score area could be used as decorative works of retro art if desired.Very colorful history to these bingo machines they were used for gambling as they all had payout amounts on them and were soon banned in most states,many were ordered smashed when they were used illegally.Found some intertesting facts online as follows:In 1955 a major redesign of the internal circuits, and switching to 50V operation brought this machine closer to Bally games than ever before. United kept their trademark spell-name feature, but now use roll-over buttons to light the letters, rather than holes in the playfield. It's not all Bally-like, though. In this game, two coins/credits will light both cards, but the two cards don't score independently unless another feature is lit. two-card games Two 5x5 cards are the primary scoring cards on the backglass. A common feature on this type of game was to have horizontal magic lines spanning the two cards such that numbers could be shifted from one card to the other. Bally and United became the chief manufacturers of these new "in-line" games as they were first called, with a few being produced by Keeney, and even one by Williams. At first t seemed not to be much of a problem with shipping them under the Johnson Act, after all they were clearly not "one-balls" as five balls (and up to eight, as most allowed the player a chance to use up to three "extra balls") were actually used in each game. But, before very long, these games were also being challenged in court as being "gambling devices" primarily due to the fact that they had no flippers (not much "skill factor") and because a player could win large numbers of replays which, in most locations, were paid off in cash by the proprietor of the establishment in which they were located. Indeed, I am sure "bingos" (as these games came to be called) were used for gambling more often than not. I cannot ship this machine it is too big for me to try and pack so it is PICK UP ONLY.I am in Delta British Columbia 30 minutes north of the Washington State border at the town of Blaine and 30 minutes south of Vancouver.The pinball machine can be dismantled into 2 pieces for easier pick up. The back part of the machine w the stained glass is can be removed, it is screwed together with 4 screws it comes apart easily.Good luck bidding and email if you have any questions at all o...

Master View Game Features

7 games

3 mystics

It's Magic

Temple Treasure

6 Cards

Penalty Game

Secret of Pyramid

Magic One Ball

Features

Very attractive graphics displayed on two 26" wide screen TFT monitors

Multilanguage ENG, FR, NL, other on demand

The information shown through the TFT makes it very easy to play the five different games

Bill acceptor JCM EBA-21

Compact hopper

Electronic coin mech AL06

Mid-Fifties Victoria College

That evening I went out with the Guys, Thursday being always “boys night out” in those days. Usually we cruised for Townie Babes but tonight was different and somehow we all wound up at Jimmy Little’s on Cook Street. Now you must understand that Jimmy sold everything in the whole wide world, and what he didn’t have in the store he got for you - no questions asked nor answered. His place featured the largest bank of Bingo and Horse Racing pinballs in the world, and they were not there just for fun, if you get my drift, “Wink, wink...nudge, nudge.” We played a little but really got goofy over the Christmas toys.

....by D. Grant DeMan

regisma

07-29-2005, 11:45 AM

Well after digging more I have reach the following conclusion. WiMi make REAL GAMBLING pinball they look and feel the same as Genuine Bingo but they uses Up to date electronics! When a Cafe / Casion buy them, they give them an UNIQUE key, it's an EPROM or somethink like this. This key CANNOT be used other that on the Bingo it came with. As soon as the head is separated from the body it wipes a RAM and it's there the problems arises, you BADLY need this key if you do not have it, then your are F****D. And the Pinball will collect dust for a while! Only WiMi repair man can bring it up to back to life! And the schematics and manuals are kept private and not distributed to the public! So the only solution that I have is to really look every where in the pinball hean / cabinet to see if by any chance the key is there if not IT'S TIME FOR PinMame-HW!!! So to make a story short, do you know any Bingo that is mechanical or better a VP recreated pinball that are quite similar as this one? Because I can give a Real try to the ActiveX component here!
Regis

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tiltjlp

07-29-2005, 12:51 PM

You might want to check out our Bingo section. It's small, but there are 14 recreated tables there. Good Luck.
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John

Those of you classmates who were ever in the military and stationed at some little remote island in the Pacific can better relate to this story than those who were never privledged to serve their country in that manner. First a little background on how I found it. In February of 1972, there was an operation called Bullet Shot that sent 8,000 United States Air Force personnel to Guam in about a two-week period. There were so many of us that hit the island at the same time that there was no where to put us all. They cleaned out World War II quonset huts, brought in trailers, set up tent cities, and rented as many hotel rooms as they could to house the onslaught of officers and enlisted men. I know because I lived in all of those places at one time or another during my deployment there.

The majority of time I was on Guam during that first visit, I was housed in a contract hotel room with three other officers. It was at a place called Tumon Bay and miles away from the base and the activities there like movies and the clubs that kept us occupied. I had to ride the USAF bus for thirty minutes to and from the base every day.

Right across the street from the hotel was the little dive pictured above. It was named the "Happy Landing Store", and was run by a Guamanian and his family - wife, sons, and daughters all worked there. It primarily sold beer and had a juke box in one room that had about a half-dozen small tables with chairs. Even the youngest would work the counters and sell beers. The cliental of the place was migrant Philippine workers, and Japanese tourists. There were only three or four of us Americans that hung out there. There was no air conditioning and no screens on the doors. A single 100-watt light bulb hanging from the ceiling was the normal lighting. I think the floor was tiled, but it was never light enough to really tell. One of the features of the jukebox was that it had 8mm movies on it, and for a quarter you could listen to songs and watch xxx rated porno movies that may or may not kept time with the beat of the song. I remember especially one raunchy movie that accompanied "I Think I Love You" by The Partridge Family, and the people in the movie tried as many ways as they could to show their love in the two plus minutes the song lasted. I always thought it was strange that the owner never seemed to mind that his four and five and ten year old sons were exposed to the movies.

However, my key draw to the Happy Landing Store was that it had the kind of pinball machines that I grew up playing in the VFW club in Huntsville. I know Bob Walker knows the kind I am talking about. They were the ones with 25 holes on the playing field and you shot five balls and tried to get the ball to land in the right holes so that you would get three, four, or five to line up and light up the lights on the back lighted screen. (See photo below!) It cost a nickel to play a basic game, but the more nickels you put in, the better the odds became and the more games you could win for lining up the balls. They call these pinball machines "bingo machines" normally. Also you could get extra features like moving the balls around and for enough money you could get up to three extra balls. Your number of games was kept on an odometer like counter on the backboard. Now once you got a real high score, you could cash them in for money, so it was really a gambling device in all-practical terms.

I used to go over there and buy Cokes and play the machines for hours. I rarely won enough to cash in, but I could usually keep myself in the game for many hours on a couple of dollars, and that was great entertainment for the money and helped a non-drinker pass the time. However, if it had not been for the Happy Landing Store, the six months that I spent alone in Guam would have driven me crazy. Whenever I got sad or lonely, I would head there and get a couple of dollars worth of nickels and kill hours of loneliness playing pinball and listening to "I Think I Love You" in the background.

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jerry kaczmarek <spittenjerry@yahoo.com>

To:bingopinballs@yahoo.com

Cc:spittenjerry@yahoo.com

Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:57 PM

hi danny this i how it really was,spitter.i first went to las vegas in 1966 with a pool player lenny contonio,the cresent city hound,he was the best pool player in louisiana and i was the best pinball player in the country.all we heard about was how you could bet any amount on anything and there were pinballs all over town which there was,what no one said was if you won anything they went ballistic on any game,i saw thirty thousand change hands in weekend gin games at the sport palace pool hall in new orleans,so i only imagined how vegas was.little did i know id be bared from the city in 1981 for beating the pinballs.you could bet 200 dollars on the table games downtown and 500 dollars on the strip.i beat the pinballs for over 16 years all over town concluding when i hit the progressive jackpots in boodles bar on 1979, after that my picture was all over town put up by united coin machine co.and griffin investigations.sll the talk about what you could bet in vegas was a farce,i was arrestd in fergies on sahara blvd in 1977 by the gaming board,6 united coin machine company mechanics came out and told the gaming board he doesent cheat he is the best player there is so they took off the cuffs and let me go.one of the gaming agents said he saw me make the 7 from below the one on one hit ,the mechanic said is that all i saw him make the4 from the peg above the 16.the mechanics told the gaming board hes barred from new orleans ,baton rouge,biloxi,shreveport,and he does nothing wrong or he be kicked out of vegas.griffen had me in the black book it drove him nuts because i never cheated and won 98 percent ofthe time.when they made the machines qurters it was the end.1981.they were taken out then don laughlin said it wa because of the reflex unit that made it give better shots the more money that was put in,don said the odd have to be random and the same every game .like the poker  and keno machines.regardless of what people think its not legal to make any machine pay or not pay.thousands of people watched me play over the years.it was all speed timing and coordination,without tilting the machine.spitten jerry

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one ball horse race score cards

ONE BALL
PINBALL

.We are all familiar with the pinball game played just for amusement and the slot machine played for gambling purposes. Put the two together and you have the "One Ball" Pinball that was popular until 1951, when the Johnson Act outlaw gambling machines. Unlike "amusement" type pinballs that gave a player 5 to 10 balls for a coin, the "One Ball" was more like a slot machine giving the player only one shot to hit a winner. Also, like some slots, the "One Ball" allowed the player to insert multiple coins to increase his odds. Many "One Ball" machines automatically paid out coins, like a slot, when a winner was hit. Other "One Ball" machines displayed the winnings via a free play counter. The player could use his winnings to keep playing or call an attendant and get paid off in cash. Most of the "One Ball" games had a horse race theme and were, therefore, frequently referred to as a horserace machine. Horse race names such as Jockey Club, Kentucky, Multiple Races and Preakness were commonly used for "One Ball" .

Copyright: 2009 Ken Durham, GameRoomAntiques

Only lights at start up nothing with coin

Tim

Subject: TECH: Bingo machine diamond ring problem.
Date: 1998/10/08

Question - I have bought a bingo machine that have been in storage in ten years. When i powering it up all the gi lights but nothing happends when i drop a coin in it, i have never seen a game bingo game before (and never played one). does someone have any suggestins where to start looking forf wroing things. When i powered i t up it did reset the number to zero.

Answer - First off, check all the fuses (you didn't state the make or model of machine, but let's assume a Bally bingo). The fuses are in the backbox, right hand side.

The reply meter knocked-off. That's a good sign - Make sure you have 8 bingo sized balls in the machine, in the ball ramp. They are not the same size as standard pinballs, and the size is important. The wrong size balls will not activate the ball ramp switches properly. I am writing this at work and I don't have one of my manuals here, so I can't remember the ball size. Marco's sells bingo sized balls. If you don't have 8 balls in the machine, the game will never play correctly (once again I am assuming this machine is a Bally with 3 extra balls feature. If it's two extra balls, then you need 7 balls). - First coin inserted should move payfield shuffle, allowing any balls on the playfield to return to the ball ramp. Shuffle will stay open until first ball is shot. - First ball should now eject up to the ball shooting lane. At this point you would deposit additional coins to try to light up higher odds and special features. You may deposit as many coins as you want until you are satisfied with the odds and features. Odds and features are lit randomly. - When you shoot the first ball, the playfield shuffle will close. - That's the basic sequence for the start of a game. A bingo machine is the MOSTcom- plicated of all EM pin type games. They are proto-computers and working on them takes time. Marco may have a manual for you. I have been surprised how many bingo manuals he has dug up for me.

Manufacturer:	Pacific Amusement Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, Illinois, USA (1934-1937) [Trade Name: PAMCO]
Type:	Electro-mechanical (EM)
Serial Number Database:	View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site)
Specialty:	Not A Pinball
Notable Features:	10 balls per game. Takes 1 to 3 nickels at the same time.
Notes:	According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Vol 2, this game is rated as the first light-up game. Numbers on the backglass light up as they are made on the roulette drum.

palm beach club

Type 6-cartes traditionnel + one ball

Configuration 220 v

Destination FRANCE

Options installées · 5 parties gratuites maximum par partie

· 2 monnayeurs electroniques RM 5

· partie à 1 euro.

· matrice à point

· LCD 2 x 16 caractères

· double bonus pour le plus haut score.

Poids et dimensions Installé 130 kg
196 x 140 x 70

Emballé 135 kg
145 x 75 x 70

A 1952 Bally 'Palm Beach' bingo pinball machine. This is one of the very early wood rail Bally bingo games, it is 63 years old. It is the first game with supercards, one of only two that had five score levels and is extremely rare. It is an early version of the game and I have the correct schematic and manual for it. I have gone through the game completely electromechanically, and it is working perfectly, as the day it left the factory. The features include two supercards (3 in line scores 4 in line when lit), corners on the main screen score 200 when lit, 400 when lit on the supercards. 400 replays is the highest payout on this game. The game can spot any of five numbers (2-5-15-16-17) during cycling. The red and yellow star rollovers light during cycling, and spot all five numbers if hit when lit. It has separate scores for 3 in line horizontal, vertical and diagonal and 4 in line and 5 in line and ten odds steps, again, unusual for a bingo from this early period. It has charming marbled plastic  pick a play buttons, red for general cycling, blue for odds, yellow for spotting features and green for extra balls. Extra  balls can step when using the general or spotting buttons, not whilst cycling for odds. Up to three extra balls can be won using the green button after the normal five have been shot. The year this game was made, Winston Churchill was prime minister of Great Britain. The De Haviland Comet, the first commercial jet arliner, underwent it's initial flight, and NME published the first ever UK singles chart. There was not a Rock 'n Roll record listed, it didn't exist!

Pour les cafetiers, les jeux clandestins, c'est bingo

ENQUETES – Véritable fléau de la fin des années 1990, le phénomène des jeux clandestins implantés dans les bars populaires franciliens par des bandes organisées semble se tasser...

• Mis à jour le 09.07.2008 à 08:32

Des enquêtes à en perdre la boule. Véritable fléau de la fin des années 1990, le phénomène des jeux clandestins implantés dans les bars populaires franciliens par des bandes organisées semble se tasser. «Mais les voyous s'adaptent et l'illégalité est de plus en plus difficile à prouver», résume Eric Lepors, chef du groupe jeux de la brigade de répression du banditisme (BRB).

La dernière affaire bouclée par les enquêteurs de la police judiciaire parisienne remonte aux premiers mois de l'année. Un réseau d'une soixantaine de machines installées dans une quarantaine de bars d'Ile-de-France a été démantelé. Le parc était composé à 90% de machines de Bingo, jeu de hasard ressemblant au flipper, et 10% de vidéo poker. Autorisées par les douanes, ces pratiques deviennent illégales lorsque les points gagnés par les joueurs sont échangés contre de l'argent. Un Bingo rapporte entre 1.500 euros et 5.000 euros par mois. Une somme répartie ensuite de façon assez égale entre le cafetier et le placier. «Les dernières enquêtes ont montré que des fratries de Kabyles ont investi le milieu. Ils blanchissent l'argent principalement dans l'immobilier en Algérie. Notre objectif est avant tout de saisir ce patrimoine, poursuit Eric Lepors. C'est un jeu pour tout le monde, y compris pour les policiers.»

Le phénomène touche principalement les cafetiers endettés auxquels les banques ne veulent plus prêter d'argent. «Il n'est pas exclu qu'avec la baisse de fréquentation liée à l'interdiction de fumer dans les lieux publics, les gérants soient tentés par ces machines illégales», dénonce Cyril Pereira, porte-parole du collectif Sauvons les cafés qui réclame la légalité de l'exploitation de ce type de jeux. Comme c'est déjà le cas en Allemagne, en Italie ou en Espagne. «Dans ces pays, il est prouvé que cela évite l'argent sale et génère des emplois. Mais l'Etat ne veut rien entendre.» Entre 15.000 et 40.000 Bingo fonctionneraient aujourd'hui en France.

ICビンゴ再再チャレンジ@バイヨン

2015-09-04 | ゲーム

やばい！！頭悪くなりそう！！今更ってか！！又行った！！

今回はパステルシャワーに挑戦！！

おおっ２INブルーセクションに13、20成功、200枚！


２INブルーセクションとは
左上が点灯してるときは３INブルーセクション
書かれているのはSCORES AS GREEN5、緑に５球入ったスコアと同等。
ブルーセクションは３つだけ、その全てに入れれば成功！！

左上の隣りが点灯した時が２INブルーセクション、２球入れれば成功。
２INはなかなか点灯しないけど、勝率５割？？

今回は、せこくやってみた。元本キープ。あと一息

関東でもICビンゴがあるのはここだけらしい。なのにいつでもできる？
こんなんで遊ぶやつ、いないってことね

Per quelli che ... dipendono dal CONTINENTAL ONE BALL

Description: Non fatevi impressionare dal nome "originale". Si tratta del gioco d'azzardo, altresi noto come "puppino", che potete trovare in tutti i circoli e/o peggiori bar di quartiere. E' una sorta di "tombola" sotto forma di "flipper", in cui le probabilità di vittoria sono bassissime, ma chi ci gioca non riesce mai a darsi pace di non riuscire a spedire la pallina nei numeri giusti e continua fino a svenarsi....Io non ci ho mai giocato (se non collateralmente) ma ho visto amici che praticamente ne dipendono e da

Perquisitions dans le milieu du bingo bruxellois

(30/11/2011)

© DEMOULIN

Ce matin, la police a lancé une vaste opération contre le milieu du jeux de hasard bruxellois

BRUXELLES Une trentaine de perquisitions ont été effectuées mercredi matin dans le milieu bruxellois des jeux de hasard, a indiqué une porte-parole du parquet de la capitale.
Plusieurs personnes ont été interpellées et entendues dans le cadre de ce dossier de blanchiment d'argent et d'escroquerie. A la suite des contrôles menés dans les établissements perquisitionnés, une centaine d'appareils de jeux (bingos, slot...) ainsi que les revenus générés par ceux-ci, ont été saisis.
Les perquisitions de la police judiciaire fédérale de Bruxelles, et plus particulièrement de la section « enquêtes patrimoniales », ont eu lieu dès 6 heures dans diverses sociétés liées au milieu des jeux du hasard ainsi qu'aux domiciles de leurs gérants.
Ces sociétés appartenaient auparavant à un individu qui a été retrouvé mort en Allemagne le 30 août 2010, le corps criblé de balles
L'enquête policière a permis de recueillir un faisceau d'éléments indiquant que cette activité commerciale, très lucrative, serait gérée par une famille albanaise bien connue du milieu de la prostitution à Bruxelles.
Une seconde vague de perquisitions a été menée dans une vingtaine d'établissements afin d'identifier, localiser et saisir le patrimoine criminel appartenant à cette famille albanaise.
Gilbert Dupont

© La Dernière Heure 2011

Issue014 - August, 1992. Cover: Gottlieb 1962 Olympics, 44 pages. Pinball Poker, A Nagging Restoration--Williams Nags, The Pinball Show 1992, Pinball Mystery, Happy 10th Anniversary pinGame journal, United Bingo List, Pinball Expo '92 Update. Inclusions: Bally Black Rose, A.G. Soccer-Ball flyers, Super Mario Bros. "secrets" card.

Issue013 - June/July, 1992. Cover: Bally 1969 Beauty Contest, 40 pages. Pinball Around The World by Federico Croci--Bally Beauty Contest, The Pinball Show '92. New game report: Gottlieb Super Mario Bros. Flyers printed: Gottlieb Dodge City, Bally Beauty Contest. Inclusions: Dodge City scorecards, Super Mario Bros. flyer.

by Phil B on May 5, 2005, 9:54 pm 0 GMT

Jeff, there were a number of ways the operators could tighten the machines to make it tougher to win. In the case of the machine being tougher to get odds and features after a big hit, the "reflex" unit is the cause. This unit is usually located at the bottom left side of the back door. As the machine racks the free games, the reflex steps up and circuits needed for game advantages are no longer live, meaning what would have been an odds or feature advance turns into a big fat nothing. As the replays are played off, the unit steps backwards, making it easier to win again. Bally was considerate enough to supply different gear ratios for the step up and down, so many operators stepped the unit up a lot faster than it reset. There were other methods used on this unit to make it tougher on the players, like using pin stops to prevent full reset.
There are a number of adjustment plugs in the bingos which accomplish the same thing but do not react to the play like the reflex does. For example, the extra balls can be made easier to get simply by moving the plug to make more circuits potentially active. The really unsavory operators would just cut wires to make things impossible to get lit. A Roller Derby I recently finished had the two in blue wire cut at the coil. Another method was to tighten springs so steppers could not advance beyond a certain point. For example, if red odds won't step beyond 64, always check the tension before messing with the circuitry.

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: phil [mailto:phil@cd.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:54 PM
To: Steve Smith
Subject: Re: FW: Shuffle bingo?

hi steve, wonder if it was ever produced.  There was a couple flipper machines that had bingo-like ways to win free games.  I think one was "hong kong". there's also japanese pachinko variants called arepachi machines that pay out coins using bingo-like grids.  I have one that has a 3x3 grid and you get coins for various patterns lit. possibly the most odd thing I've run across is the bally 929 em slot machine - see attached flyer.  I actually have one of these also, but I bought it without the correct hopper unit or reel wipers and have never found a schematic.

the machine was spectacularly unsuccessful as it was too hard to see if you won anything just by watching the reels stop.  'course, the same is true of today's multi-line video slots, but at least those still are mainly "match the same symbols".  Watching different numbers land on the pay line and then hunting on the pay table/bingo card to see why the game is paying didn't appeal the slot players of the era.phil anderson told me all the ones si redd bought were chopped up and turned into "win a car" 5 reel free play machines used for promo purposes.

I did run across a guy in orange county who bought one new-in-crate, and actually went down there to pull his hopper and diagram it (he couldn't find his schem, and his game had been converted into a single coin version with a bikini babe on the main glass).
I also found the game used unique double reel wipers in order to light the bingo card.  I diagrammed those and made some from single wipers and plexiglass pieces, then phil anderson found some originals which I haven't installed yet.  The only way I'll get the thing working right is to reverse engineer the schematic based on similar machines and some tedious wire tracing.

Re: Recherche renseignements pin ball Bingo

Je joins quelques photos en espérant que quelqu'un aura une idée...

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Pinball Wizardry - 27/3/06

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Right now it's time to pay tribute to possibly the coolest gadget game of all time. Immortalised by The Who in rock's finest opera and canvas to some of the best pop art of the 20th century - we're talking about the Pinball machine. After the fruit machine, pinball is the most successful arcade game ever. Each year in America alone more than 100 million dollars are fed into pinball machines. In the 70 years since they first appeared, more than 12,000,000 have been produced and making them is still big business: worldwide sales of pinball machines last year were worth over 50 million pounds. In a world now dominated by ultra-sophisticated video games, firing a small metal ball around a series of neon obstacles, may seem rather simplistic - but its that simplicity that makes these machines are so hugely attractive;
Think about it; all you have to do is fire the ball into play, then try and keep it there for as long as possible with a pair of flippers - and that's it. But with bumpers firing, lights flashing, counters spinning, buzzers, whirrs, bells and sirens going off all over the place, it's like having your own personal fairground to play with. The machine does most of the work, but you look very, very cool.

Pinball grew out of a game called Bagatelle, a game played on a sort of small billiards table, where the aim was to knock balls down holes, guarded by metal pins sticking up from the playing surface.
The first pinball machines, which appeared in the 1930s, worked on much the same principle. You simply fired a ball up into the playing area and it would then roll back down hitting pins and bouncing around until it fell in a hole - hence the name Pinball. The very early models didn't even have a firing mechanism like this; you launched the ball by pushing it with a small cue.

'The Ballyhoo' launched by Bally in 1931, was the first successful mass produced machine - mainly because it provided very cheap entertainment for depression hit Americans.
And you could make money off these machines if you got high enough scores. The Bally Bingo was a hugely popular machine from the 30s. And you basically play a sort of pinball bingo on it. You try and get the balls into the holes with the right numbers to fill up your bingo card up on the display. If you managed it, then the bar owner would give you a prize of a free drink. Other machines would actually pay out prize money if you got a good score, but this led to pinball machines being demonised by the anti-gambling lobby who saw them as a game of chance and campaigned to have them banned.

And banned they were in New York City on January 21st 1942. Barges loaded up with pinball machines sailed out into the east river, where the machines were unceremoniously pushed over the side. Mayor Fiorelli La Guardia - the one they named their airport after - even staged a publicity stunt where he personally smashed up a whole pile of machines.

The ban was only lifted in 1976, but it is still illegal to play any pinball machines in New York which reward you for high scores - even if it's just by giving you an extra game. Of course, in reality the NYPD is far too busy chasing muggers and flashers around Central Park to worry about pinball violations.

The fact that there was money at stake when playing pinball inevitably led to people trying to cheat and affect the roll of the ball by lifting or tilting the machine. In the early 30s the cheating had reached such levels that it almost did for the pinball industry - nobody wanted machines that could only lose money. In 1935, a chap called Harry Williams came up with the anti-tilt device designed to switch the game off if the table was moved or nudged violently and ever since the 'Tilt' has been a feature of every pinball table.

Playmatic

A pin-ball machine and jukebox supply company run by Fasulo and his wife went into liquidation last month.

Fasulo, who holds joint Swiss and Italian nationality, listed one of his companies, Playmatic SA, on the 2002 Swiss company directory for being bankrupt, The Associated Press said.

CNN article apr 20 2002

Es ist beachtlich, welche Ähnlichkeiten die "Speak Easy"-Flipper von Playmatic aus Spanien, ein elektromechanischer 4-Spieler von 1977 und das fünf Jahre später auf den Markt gekommene, namensgleiche elektronische Modell von Bally haben!

Pinball magazin

09-08-15, 23:37 #17

eurobsgame

Rookie

Oorspronkelijk Geplaatst Door

Er stond een lange rij, 25 jaar gelden enorm populair, zat toen al een enorm gokelement in, onbeperkt eigenlijk.
6 kaarten, horizontaal, verticaal, kruislings, hoeken enz. elke toekomstige winstkans koste 1 punt(10 cent) extra, je kon natuurlijk ook met maar 4 punten spelen.
Vele jaren geleden stonden er nog 2 in Hommersons Scheveningen, ik won er best wel op, je kon een "extra bal" kopen, hoe beter de uitzichten op mooie prijzen werden, hoe duurder de extra bal....

Geweldig @ Jelli Nek . Dat er nog afbeeldingen van deze apparaten bestaan .

Ja in de Play in in 1983 - 1985 , speelden vooral Surinamers op deze mysterieuze apparaten . Heel vreemd dit spel , een soort mutatie tussen pinball , bingo en gokkast . Ik snapte er niets van , ging kijken , en snapte er nog minder van .
Eigenlijk is dit dus een behendigheidsspel . Werd er ook uitbetaald ( afgetikt ) ?

Ik was te jong ( 16 ) . Ik was al blij dat ik in de Play in mocht spelen op de dubbeltjes kasten .

Happy times !



In het filmpje investeert iemand $135 om $ 450 te winnen . @Jelli Nek weet jij wat er gebeurt ?

Laatst gewijzigd door eurobsgame; 09-08-15 om 23:39.

September 28

Lista de máquinas de Pinball Playmatic

Playmatic fue una empresa española que produce máquinas de pinball de 1968 a 1987. Máquinas de playmatic son reverenciadas por coleccionistas y restauradores ya que sus campos de juego tienen un recubrimiento plástico que raramente lleva a cabo. La compañía produjo 63 diferentes máquinas de pinball en el curso de sus negocios, 41 de ellos en estado sólido.

Finales de los ' 60

1968: caravana, corredores

1969: golpe de línea, Poker, Serenata

de 1970 a 1975

1970: caddie, Viking

1973: bandera negra, Geisha, magia, tiempo de juego

1974: chance, artillero, Harem, bromista, alegre paseo

1975: Apache, Caddie, patos, Tam-Tam

1976 a 1980

1976: fantasía, Fandango, Fiesta, conquista 200, nuevo mundo

1977: Perchas, los años 30, carnaval, Speakeasy, Rio

1978: jugador, ciudad grande, última vuelta, posibilidad del espacio

1979: partido, Antar

1980: Dixie, Super Win, Zira, pelea mal, ataque, negro fiebre

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Bingo could hit French cafes

September 18, 2009 by David Snook

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The long-suffering French cafes may get some relief if a move in the French Parliament permits bingo games.

One of the deputies is fostering the bid, as a means of bringing a positive future to the cafés, a French tradition that many believe is under severe threat since the smoking ban and the recession. The French coin machine industry has tried for years to obtain some form of AWP, but this has always been refused.

Bingo games are popular in neighbouring Belgium, where there are 11,000 of them in cafés. There are three major manufacturers in Belgium, Splin, Eurautomat and Seeben, all of whom would welcome the opportunity of sending their bingo games across the border.

Feelings are mixed however. Michel Denis at Splin commented: "I don’t think it will happen. We have seen attempts to do this for the past 20 years, but French governments have always sought to protect their lottery, the Francaise des Jeux."

At Seeben, Urbain Thewissen commented: "The French cafés are under pressure, there’s no doubt. If they put the machines online they would be very secure. If that market opened to bingo games it would offer an immediate 100,000 machine market."

Bingokasten gekraakt met snaar van gitaar

HANDIGE HARRY’S AAN DE HAAL MET 800 EURO

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De daders boorden een gaatje in het bingotoestel en staken er een gitaarsnaar door om de winnende nummers aan te tikken.

NEERPELT/HAMONTACHEL - Vijf Brusselse handige harry’s zijn woensdag voor de rechter in Hasselt verschenen omdat ze twee bingokasten gekraakt hadden. Met de hulp van een gitaarsnaar wisten ze in Het Molenhuis in Hamont-Achel en in Den Drempel in Neerpelt met 800 euro aan de haal te gaan.

De feiten speelden zich af op drie juni 2012 op nauwelijks enkele uren tijd. De uitbater van Den Drempel, die liever zijn naam niet in de krant ziet, had eerst niets in de gaten. “Blijkbaar hadden ze een gaatje geboord in het toestel, vooraan. Vervolgens staken ze er een gitaarsnaar door om de winnende nummers aan te tikken. Het gaatje hadden ze met stopverf in dezelfde kleur als het toestel weer dichtgemaakt. Er was niks van te merken. Ik betaalde hen 350 euro uit en dat was het. Het was best kunstig zoals ze te werk zijn gegaan. Je weet hoe dun zo’n snaar is.” Een dik uur later kreeg het slachtoffer een telefoontje vanuit Het Molenhuis in Hamont-Achel, dat hij eveneens uitbaat. “Ze vroegen me om 450 euro te brengen, want dat bedrag was gewonnen op de bingokast. Groot was mijn verbazing toen het om dezelfde winnaars als in Den Drempel bleek te gaan. Dat vond ik op zijn zachtst gezegd raar. Ik heb een klant gevraagd om hun nummerplaat op te schrijven en zo zijn ze gevat. Wel vrees ik dat ik van dat geld niets meer zal terugzien.”

Magneet

Ook Jos Eens van Eens-Degreef Amusementsspelen uit Tessenderlo spreekt met enige verwondering over de diefstal. “Ik heb er al eens van gehoord, maar heb het nog nooit gezien. Ze boren dan onder de trekker een gaatje en werken dan met de snaar. Fijn werk allemaal, want je moet onder meer door staal boren. Dat kan ongezien. Ze zetten zich met vier man rond een kast, die dan meestal nog eens ergens in een hoek staat, en vragen de uitbater om achteraan een pannenkoek of iets te halen. Voor je het weet, is het gebeurd. Maar vaak gebeurt het niet, hoor. Er zijn nog andere verhalen zoals de bal beïnvloeden met een magneet of de nummers proberen te manipuleren door er onder meer een gsm dicht tegen te houden. Maar nog eens, zelf heb ik dat nog nooit gezien.”

Werkstraf

De daders bleken niet onervaren. Ze waren eerder al eens betrapt op dergelijke feiten. Voor twee van hen, die door hun verleden in het vizier waren gekomen, vroeg het openbaar ministerie de vrijspraak. Ze zouden er niet bij betrokken geweest zijn. Voor de drie anderen, tussen 54 en 40 jaar oud, vorderde het parket een werkstraf. Uitspraak op 19 maart.

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Subject: Re: Antique Bingo type pinball game
Date: 1995/04/07
The machines were "gambling" machines all the way! I have played 5 cent, 10 cent, and 25 cent based machines. Whatever the base was you could play many coins, in an effort to raise the payout odds and features. Odds were expressed as 3 numbers (i.e. 4/16/96) which would mean 4 "credits" for 3 in a row on grid, 16 for 4 in a row, and 96 for 5 in a row. You kept feeding the "base" coins at the beginning of the game till you were happy with the odds/feature combo. There were 2 of these machines at a pool hall when I was at Virginia Tec (1974-77). They were 10 cent based and you could generally get a decent game for a buck.

In addition to just lining the numbers up on the grid, you could get a feature that would allow you to move the cover screen on the grid.This cover screen would have color sections in odd shapes (L shaped, zig zag, etc.) Each color section would have 5 numbers in at, and lighting 3, 4, or 5 of the numbers in one section would pay at thesame odds as 3, 4, or 5 in a row. Generally you could move positions of the cover screen until after the 3rd ball BUT there were small button rollovers near the bottom of the playfield that would allow you to move the screen after 4th or even 5th ball.

If you got a "winning" game, you would push a square "R" button that was on top of he machine. This would cause the game counter to click one at a time, the number of "credits" you won. These credits could be played, or turned into the operator of the establishment for (number of credits) times base rate of machine. They seemed rather advanced for the time period they were made (I would guess during the 50's) Unfortunately I have not seen mention of one or played one in many years!

Ray Maloney

La compagnie BALLY fondée en 1932 par Ray Moloney remporte son premier succès en 1947 avec le Ballyhoo et ses couleurs arc en ciel. Le Ballyhoo restera célèbre car il donnera son nom à la compagnie BALLY MANUFACTURING COMPAGNY. En 1947, Bally est le premier à équiper un flipper d' un système de Pay-Out automatique et de bumpers. Les années 50 sont difficiles pour la production de flipper car elle produit peu de modèles: le Balls-A-Poppin, Beach Queens, Circus. A noter le Target Roll avec sa roulette. Durant cette période, Bally ne construit que des Flippers-Bingos et il faut attendre 1963 pour qu'il recommence à fabriquer des flippers: le Moon Shot. Dans les années 60, Bally invente le système de la porte latérale et les zipper-flippers qui en se rapprochant, évitent de perdre la bille au centre. Le Bazaar est le premier avec des zippers-flippers. En 1966, sort le Fun Cruise et son plateau sans flippers. Mais le succès arrive avec le Capersville fabriqué à plus de 5000 ex: c'est un multibille (3 billes à la fois) au design assez géométrique.

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Again, a site that gives you text for video

http://www.allreadable.com/vid/tscc-continental-magic-game-bingo-pinball-gameplay-and-features-1065981.html

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This is the Continental Magic Game Bingo, by TSCC in 1991.

Although the game reminds a flipper pinball, it's a completely different game.0:08

I made this video to demonstrate its gameplay.Bingos usually have more buttons in the lockdown bar than flipper pinballs,that usually have only one for some special feature.This one has number buttons for statistics and one to set the stake on the right.There's also an extra ball and start buttons on the coin door.Unlike flipper pinball, you can spend a lot more credits in one game.You could play a game with just one credit,but to get all the cards and see all the game's features, you have to use over 10 credits.First we set the stake, this machine is set for Euro cents.I select 5 cent stake.The first start button push gives me one card.Another push gives me the second and so forth until the 6th card.7th push gives the red diagonal lines for the cards 1 to 3.The next does the same for the rest of the cards.Then we get double score for one of the top row cards.And the next one does the same for lower row.The next feature doubles the score if you hit the lit magic number here.Next one adds prizes for landing 3, 4 or 5 balls next to eachother in the playfield.And the last is the name game, the "magic game",where one of the cards will be "magic", and in that cardthe golden numbers will give you these scores.At this point we've bought all the features,but we can wager more to increase the payout.Now we have the largest winnings possible.At this point the we have wasted 390 credits, which is 3,90 euro!Five.Four.The game is now suggesting two winning shots.As we can win with having 3 balls next to eachother, the machine is suggesting 3 and 6.I still have 3 balls left.Twenty-four.Twenty-three.Ten.There was atleast one 3-in-line.And nothing else.Now I can buy an extra ball for 497 credits.And there's possibility for 4-in-line, which gives 600 credits.Let's give it a try.Nine.120 credits for 3-in-line. But nothing else.The next extra ball is 939 credits...The maximum win is 9000 credits for 5 in a line, let's give it a try.I can't get 5 in a row with this ball.It went all the way down and I can shoot it again.Anotherfreebie.Obviously it doesn't want to stay!Nineteen.That's a 4 in line.The next extra ball goes for 2130.Let it roll!Got one 3 in line. And nothing else.At this point the extra balls are so expensive,that there's no point continuing this round.So I press Start once and the game returns to attraction mode.Let's play another round.This time I got a bonus mode. 4 corners gives a 5 in line.Twenty.I notice one 3 in line, so I've already won something.Twenty-four.Let's try that again.Two.That was the fifth ball, so it paid out the 3 line line I got earlier.Extra all is 238 credits.Seventeen.Got two 3 in lines.I'll take it.The next one goes for 2000 credits.There's 9000 credits to be won if I'd hit 16.The card number 6 has the jackpot!I'll try my luck.No, not there!It's still about the same price, so I'll continue. 3rd extra ball.This machine has 10 balls, so you can buy the maximum of 5 extra balls.Towards the end they become so expensive they're not worth it.One.That gave me 3 in line.I'll give the 5 in line another try.Oh, I guess we won't! We're now so poor we can't afford it any more!I guess I need to admit my defeat and return to the attraction mode.

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u/strangephish

8 months ago

Got this machine but can’t figure out how to get it to actually play.

It is noisy, beeping but can’t get it to play. Any help would be great

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8 months ago

That is a bingo and they are absolutes beasts in terms of weight and to get working properly. Pinside probably wont have much, if any information.

If you are on facebook there is a great group there dedicated to bingos. Do a search for Bally Bingo and it should pop up.

Good luck. They arent everyones cup of tea, but I dig em.

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Jerry Spitter hi danny i was just reading the article why they siezed the pinballs,the article with myself and jim garrison[jfk]from 1973 when he seized the remaining pins in new orleans and biloxi,it was for gambling purposes only even though every machine was labeled for amusement only,don laughling said when they took his pins ou...t of his casino in 82 it was because of the reflex unit in all pinballs.this unit makes the machines give better shots the more money you put in,and when someone cashed out they all tightened up.i would love to catch a machine right after someone just went broke in it.then it would be really lose.the gaming control board told don you had to have the same chance of winning at all times,like the poker machines that were just taking off back then.thats why they were taken out. spitten jerry

Repro circus backglass

From: "roger & bonnie" <rwileyb@frontiernet.net> Add Mobile Alert

To: "Danny Leach" <bingopinballs@yahoo.com>

Subject: Re: your bingo

ate: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:21:23 -0800Top of Form

Hi Danny-  The nice original backglass came from an antique store on hwy 101 just north of Novato, but not sure which store.  That was maybe 10 years ago.  The repro backglass was in an antique store somewhere in L.A., and again not sure which antique store.  The machine itself was found in the Jolly Giant flea mart here in Redding about 12 years ago in not so good condition.  It cost me a Gay Nineties bingo in trade for labor to get the Circus machine up and running.  That machine was nicer and working, but my wife and I like the Circus machine better, as we didn't like the changing cards in the Bally machine.  I probably have over $1,000.00 tied up in the Circus machine over the time I've owned it.  Moved to the mtns here in Shingletown over 2 years ago, and my extra bedroom (gameroom) is upstairs and my large pinball's had to go.  Sold my Bally Odds & Evens last year, and my Big Guns machine also.  Have 3 old payout pinball's from the mid 30's left, and about 12 old slot machines too.  They can be carried up and down the stairs if the need arises.  Have an interested party for the Circus machine, he lives in Old Station, near Lassen, but we can't seem to get together on him viewing the machine.  He's not familiar with the bingo machines, and think he is just curious, and he hasn't called me in a couple weeks now, so will write him off.  Have a couple pic's attached of my 30's pinball's, and some of my old slot machine's, the rest of the slot's are scattered around the house.

Roger

btw, believe the listing for the Circus machine is about to expire on Craig's list, so probably will try and sell it on ebay, and go for local pickup......

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Rex memories

A job reconditioning Bingos for export!!!!

Posted on the Usernet rec.games.pinball was this note from Rex buried number 12 down in a series of threads dated 1998/12/13
These machines are the "chess" of the pinball world. You think about the strategy and exicute if you can. I too have 2 machines. A Bally Roller Derby and Silver Sails (Golden Gate with different backglass) and still find it fun to play them. I used to work for a company named Runyan Sales in Newark NJ. My job was to get a Bingo machine out of this big warehouse, fix it up, clean it up and ship it oversea; then get another one and do it again. These machines are marvels of EM inginuity. Who needs computers?

Rex.

Royal 7 - Prachtige bingo,zo goed als nieuw,versie 2003,volledig op euro,4 verschillende spelen:6 card game-7 card game-One ball game-Super one ball game.Digitale geluiden en spraaktech.Service box ingebouwd met menu voor de instellingen,duidelijk leesbaar op het display van het speelveld.18 maanden in exploitatie geweest .De verschillende spelen dienen terug ingesteld te worden.Staat reeds 4 maand stil wegens faling.Boek met gebruiksaanwijzingen en instellingen meegeleverd.Vrij ingewikkeld.Afmetingen:L,1.40m Br,68 cm H,2 meter,gewicht 150 kg. Enkel afhalen ,regio Sint-Niklaas.Betaling cash of via bank

Bingo de 2003 comme nouveau,deja 7 mois dans le magasin.En euro,4 jeu different,à remettre en état-avec service-box paneau dedans et le manual et tous les clées

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Do gooders removed the bingos when it was to difficlut to bribe local officials. In the 70s and early 80s they were all over the place in Sydney and they paid out to strangers but i would only play my favourite machines at my favourite place. The problem was that govenment was not getting a cut and they do not like that one bit. The popblem with the bingos was that the house could actually LOSE unlike todays gaming machines. These days in Sydney you can walk into any Pub (Public bar) and play poker machines with out even being asked for I.D. for proff of age in fact you can walk in and play through on door from the cap park without even seeing a staff member and play and payout with no ID whatsoever so a kid could do it if no one noticed him. The difference these days is that the Govenment geta a cut and the house cant lose. Bring back the bingos!!!

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Politie zoekt bende die bingokasten manipuleerde

De politie van de zone Heist is op zoek een bende die verdacht worden van het manipuleren van speelkasten in cafés in heel het land. In het VTM-programma Faroek werden gisteren camerabeelden getoond van café ’t Pleintje in Heist-op-den-Berg. Daarop is te zien hoe de mannen met een handboor een gaatje maakten in de zijkant van een bingokast. Daarin staken ze een priem waarmee ze de balletjes in de automaat probeerden te manipuleren zodat ze een bonus konden opstrijken. De bende sloeg op 16 mei een eerste keer toe in ’t Pleintje en kon zo 600 euro buit maken. Enkele dagen later kwamen ze terug. Op het einde van de avond koesterde een medewerker van het café argwaan en alarmeerde de politie. Die kon twee verdachten in de zaak arresteren. Een derde kompaan had het café al verlaten. Hij en nog twee andere verdachten zijn spoorloos. Wie meer weet over deze zaak, kan contact opnemen met de politie via 0800/30.300.

Sagse 2010

Entering its 18th year, SAGSE Buenos Aires 2010 at Costa Salguero convention center became the center of attraction in Latin American market.  Monografie, the organizer announced the event information to international graphic presses edited in several languages.  In addition, 15,000 leaflets, 26,000 invitations and a large amount of mails and emails were sent and delivered to almost every corner of the world.  Through persistent efforts in advance, global operators gathered and presented their latest products in this show such as Ainsworth Game Technology, Aristocrat, Aruze Gaming, Bally, Belatra Games, BS Group, Dayco Gaming, DEK International, DLV, EGT, Game Time International, Gold Club, GPI, IGT, JCM Global, Konami Gaming, Lacer, Novomatic, 3M, and Touchsystems, among others.

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Laxan Corporation：Laxan showed its "Bingo Twister," "DLV Diamond series" and "Mini 38."

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My lineup at Pincon Canada 2017

Pincon Canada was held June 3rd and 4th in Hawkesbury Ontario. The event was a success. Pretty good turnout for a first year. Here's a picture of my contribution to the show. My bingo Row.

It was fun talking with other pinball enthousiasts and showing people how to play bingo machines.

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screwloose 2001年11月26日(月)2時19分

御無沙汰です。
う～ん ビンゴ話。わたしもちょっと。

とりあえずIPD（ピンボールデータベース）で検索すると、歴代のマシンが出ます。
残念ながらシグマのマシンは載っていませんが。
http://www.lysator.liu.se/pinball/IPD/search.cgi?qf=&n=&mf=&yr=&any=bingo&so=manufacturer&fm=table

そして現存する（！）ビンゴメーカー "WIMI GAMES" のサイト。お国はベルギー。
http://www.wimi.be/
ホールの中のＬＥＤが気になりますね。

そういえば先日、シグマのビンゴマシンを見る機会がありまして、ちょっと興味深かったのが
ボールが入った番号が点灯するバックボックスのライトがなんと、ブラウン管なんです。
ただ明かりを点けるためだけに使われるブラウン管。凄く贅沢

Sf memories reds

1. Thanks for the report! Glad to hear Red's still has the Anchor upgrade option vs. Bud.

I have only been around long enough to remember the days of the row of flipper-less "bingo" type payout machines at the other Red's -- the Red's Java Hut that's about a furlong closer to SBC Park. Not sure if Red's Java House ever had those, but must have been prior to 1980 if they did. You could cash in unused games you had accumulated for a nickel.

These days, to find those old payout pinball machines of previous days in the City, you pretty much have to hang out at the Silver Crest Donut Shop on Bayshore Blvd. next to the Jack in the Box. They have a row of 5 United's Triple Play machines still up and running. Doc's Clock on Mission used to have 2, but it's been eons since I've been in there. Vieni Vieni in North Beach also used to have one.

I long for the halcion days of the old authentic saloon/eateries such as Bonanza, Carmen's, 3rd Street Station, Triangle Sandwich Shop, Pier 23, both Red's (Hut and House), and Wolfe's Lunch. Some of these places, thank God, still exist. Lots of good food, good fun and good pinball to be had during their heyday!

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Tom on United vs Bally

Danny, United had the same manuals and schematics that Bally had and they came in the games as well.  I do not have duplicates, only orginals that came with the games, and I am not lucky enough yet to have orginals for all my games.   I think my favorite United game would be Singapore, it has lots of features, and a second set of super cards with four numbers on each card.  If you lite these cards, you only need to get two of the four numbers to score a three in line hit.  It is a fun game.  I like them all, but I definately like the cabinet designs on the United games much better than Ballys.  Actually, United built stronger and better cabinets than the Bally games, and some of the United games, like Rio, and Nevada, and Mexico, have absolutely beautiful cabinets.  I do not have a Brazil, but I believe that game had turning numbers, so if that is the case, a Bally Showtime, Sun Valley, or Key West or Cypress Gardens would all be good candidates for games like Brazil..  It also might be close to Bally's Acapulaco, which had six numbers that rotated.  Why don't you give me your phone number and I will give you a call as I am on vacation for a few weeks.  Thanks, Tom

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Saturday, August 10, 2013

Dangerous Dan McFoo (1939, Dir. Tex Avery)

FILM: Dangerous Dan McFoo
YEAR: 1939
DIRECTOR: Tex Avery
PINBALL MODEL(S):  N/A
GAME LOCATION: Tavern/Lodge
NOTES:  Cartoons have been having fun with the possibilities of the pin-table since the early days of the art-form.  As with most animation, comedy is achieved by exaggerating and distorting the realism of the objects depicted.  The "marble game" that Dan is playing is a bizarre incarnation of a modern pin and a European table-top target game.  Of course, the physics of this animated universe precludes the game from responding in a predictable way, and hilarity ensues.

See the entire short-film here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wIfco183FY

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Sunday, April 9, 2017

Bally Bingo Border Beauty 1965

This is an awesome video.
It gives a good view of what's happening inside a bingo machine.
Enjoy!

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TE KOOP: BINGO Gokkast - Lomogea Continental Top Game

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Geachte,

Ik verkoop deze BINGO Gokkast van Lomogea Continental Top Game.
De kast werd destijds uit elkaar gehaald voor veilig vervoer.
Mogelijks is er een eleltrisch defect.
Op het horizontaal gelegen glas zit er een kleine barst linksboven.
Voor de rest is alles compleet:
Sleutels, ballen, boekje, poten, printplaten, enz.

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THE PIQUA DAILY CALL PHOTO NEGATIVE COLLECTION

1964-2003

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Piqua Daily Call Photo Negative Collection 1964-2003 is divided into twenty parts and forty series.  Each part covers a period of two years and each series covers a period of one year. 

Each series is subdivided into twelve sub-series containing the negatives for a single month.

February 12, 1976

a. Renovation of Francis Office Supply – 431 N. Main St. (24)

b. Man and two ladies exchanging envelopes with a pinball machine in the background (6)

August 7, 1976

a. Sheriff’s Deputies and Piqua Police seizing illegal pinball machines from the Colony Club on C.R. 25-A (28)

b. New traffic lights at U.S. 36 and Looney Road (6)

The Vintage Pinball Store

· 1955 Tropicana Pinball (Bingo Machine, EM)

The theme of this vintage pinball machine is similar to the 1948 flipperless Tropicana.  This time, the hula girls adorn the cabinet.  There are several girls on the backglass and large palm trees.

Here is info. from an advertisement for the 1955 Tropicana Bingo:

- Roving Special Cards - One to Four Special Cards Light Up on Mystery Basis (Two Bottom Cards Held when held panel is lit). - Super Selection Feature - Extra Ball, 4-in-line scores 5-in-line, advance score, return all balls - Number selection feature, 4-corners score, light-up spot feature (spots 5-8-15) - Extra balls, advancing scores, all balls return, latest e-z service features.

Three sheets

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Tommyjay remembers

Min---That Silver Sails game is essentialy the same game I played. But that wasn't the name. The number sequence is identical though, and I see that Bally made it too. The ones I played had 4 squares of 4 numbers and 1 vertical line of 5. All rotated or moved up and down provided one put extra nickels in it and were lucky enough to light up the letters. A and B were fairly easy and could be had for 10 cents to 50 cents, other features and higher odds were more expensive.
The 9-1-2-11 sequence was the key. I could get the 1 and 2 95% of the time on the first two balls. The 11 was easy to get after the 1 and 2 were full. Sometimes I would jack up the rightside legs with a couple of matchbooks, this took the skill out of it, you couldnt lose. But I didn't need to, only if I wanted a quick 20 or 30 buck 20 minute score.
The old Nevada Club in Reno had 3 Bally pins on the second floor, next to the Keno counter and the bar. A 5 dollar tip to the bartender kept him quiet, and I financed my Keno play from the Bally's for hours on end. My dad was almost as good as me, and we had a fukkin blast there. Then a quick dash down the alley to the Reno Turf Club for a game play. Or down the two alleys, around the Palace Hotel, to Leroy's for some action too. The Overland Hotel had 2 pin games, but they were stuck downstairs next to the shoeshine stand, and they weren't much fun.
That was so much fun back then. I miss those days, and I miss my dad more. I felt fully, 100% alive, during that period in my life. Makes me think.

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Caratteristiche:

Bonus per cartella individuale.

Superbonus per cartella individuale.

Numero Magico.

Premio de 4 angoli.

Premio diagonali.

Premio Super Linea.

6, 7 e 8 palle extra.

One ball regolabile.

Moltiplicatori x2 e x4 delle cartelle individuale.

Flippers.

Display informativo alfanumerico.

Tutoriale de gioco per display e leds.

Sensibilità TILT regolabile.

Leds d'alta luminosità multicromatica.

Analisi in corso per evitare manipolazioni esterne.

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Speaking of the 50s, our favorite store in town had a dizzying array of vintage pinball machines and juke boxes.

In developing the Triple Seven, the new legislation was fully taken into account. Thus, this game holds a leading position on the market.

A new bingo-world opens up with the Triple Seven:

six different games in one machine

the variety of games is attractive to a broad public

the central TFT screen allows interaction and overview

the Triple Seven is adapted to the JGC house style

Triple seven mfg year

Te koop   bingo  amuzement spel in goede staat

bouwjaar 2002  werkt op €

tel 0474/878279

Ultra seven napoleon games

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According to the folks who like to keep track of such things, December is supposed to be the birth month of the game of bingo. We can't confirm that, but we do know that the ear-liest form of the popular game of chance was played more than 200 years ago. The word bingo is an alteration of bing, an interjection suggestive of a ringing sound. Back in the 1920s, when it first began appearing in print, bingo announced any unexpected event or instantaneous result. After folks with a winning line or card in bingo-type games began calling out "bingo" to announce a winning position, the game became known by that name.

This is not to say that bingo had no name before the 1920s. In fact, the game had many names. Lotto, which comes from the Italian word for "lottery," was first used for it in seventeen-seventy-eight. Keno, the name for the original American form of the game, first appeared in eighteen-fourteen. That name comes from the French quine, meaning "set of five winning numbers in a lottery," plus the -o from lotto. Other American names for bingo include beano and tango. During the Great Depression, a variant called screeno was played at neighborhood movie theatres. On what was known as Bank Night, patrons would receive free bingo cards with their admission tickets and try for prizes and cash.

White rose 2018

Unboxing

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World champion

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Te koop : zeer goed werkende bingo “ World Champion “ met TFT scherm. De bingo is voorzien van 4 games: de traditionele 6 cards – de extra 7 cards – One Ball Game en Super One Ball (triple 7 ) Er kan gespeeld worden met euromunten (1euromunten) en via een drukknop. Alle informatie wordt tevens aangegeven via het TFT scherm .Het speelveld is voorzien van gekleurde Leds die de winnende nrs aanduiden en een verlichte dispay voor het keuzemenu. De “ Magic Nummers “ verdubbelen de winst . Er kan gespeeld worden vanaf 25ct tot 6.25euro en er zijn eveneens 2 extra ballen beschikbaar. Men kan hetzelfde spel terug nemen en/of spelen naar de “Sterren” die een extra hoge winst geven, de 4 Hoeken of de Superlines .Indien gewenst kunnen de “credits “ terug op “ 0” gezet worden door het omdraaien van een sleutel. De bingo kan ook ingesteld worden in het configuratiemenu naar eigen keuze, zodat de winstkansen hoger of lager liggen. De kast en poten zijn in goede staat . Boven het speelveld ligt een NIEUWE glasplaat ( dus krasvrij ) De bingo is tevens voorzien van een opstartmuziek. Alle sleutels zijn beschikbaar . Alle lichtjes / lampjes en display verlichting is in prima staat en de bingo kan niet in code vallen. De bingo is te koop voor 800euro.
Geen verplichtingen en vrijblijvende informatie.
Indien duidelijke interesse, kom de bingo uitproberen. Voor verdere info mail / bel of sms naar Mario op 0497/ 83 50 69 of 09/2284500 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 09/2284500

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