Last update 06-17-2021

 

It was the late 1950s and the American government was cracking down on the Bingos

Basically, if you had a game they wanted you to pay taxes on it`

 

All multi-coin pinball machines were targeted`…and they had a list of names and features to watch out for`…So,

 

 

For a while, renaming the games Single Coin saved 100s of Bingos

 

 

Single Coin Bingos

Single-Coin

Single Coin Bingos

Single-Coin

Single-Coin

Single-Coin

Single-Coin

Single-Coin

Single-Coin

 

Single-Coin

 

 

,,,

 

During this same period bowling games “Bowlers” were everywhere, so the guys played on that`

 

 

 

 

PlayLand

 

Bowl-a-Line

Bowl-a-Lane

Bowl-a-Line

Bowl-a-Line

Bowl-a-Line

Bowl-a-Line

Bowl-a-Line

Bowl-a-Line

Bowl-a-Line

Shoot-a-Line

Beach Theme Bowler

Shoot-a-Line

 

 

Now if you had flippers, you were a pinball, not a Bingo`

 

 

 

Broadways w/4 Flippers

 

Twin Flippers

Flipper Ball

Added Flippers

Flip-a-Ball

Added Flippers

Added Flippers

Added Flippers

 

,,,…

 

 

Honorable Mention

 

 

 

 

Fitting

No Name Bingos

Fitting

Fitting

Offshore

Fitting

 

Feature Focused`...Big Time!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perfect Example

 

Old Archives

Spot Em Street Spins

Old Archives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, let’s play around a bit too`

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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