Bingo
pinballs
Created
on 07-12-2020
Some
of the main laws cracking down on the Bingos were legislation about restricting
Interstate Transport of the games`
The
squeeze was on; the Federal Government
was limiting access to the source ~
Chicago, Illinois`
It
was no longer easy to buy new machines and many Owner/Operators found themselves
at a crossroads`
The only way to maintain some of the Routes
was to start servicing the machines, start repairing the broken Bingos`
But
access to repair parts was limited too ~
Restricted shipping-and-receiving ~
Chicago was no longer a simple phone call away`
Well
how do you get spare parts out to support this new demand, how do you skirt around these transportation laws`
Well
eventually Bally got tricky and went underground and started releasing a few “regular
pinball” machines with
similar
modules ~ Inexpensive throw-aways you could cannibalize and/or
order parts for - etc`
…naturally
Twin Joker was one such machine`
Message 4 in thread
From: cdh (dale_h@ix.netcom.com)
Subject: Re: Twin Joker - What have I?
Date: 1999/12/14
There was an article in a
recent Gameroom magazine about this. Evidently (they think) made by Bally to be
able to legally ship
bingo parts to states where
bingo games were illegal. If interested I can dig up the article.
- Carl
…I didn’t know about this
Gameroom article, I will find it and post it for us - I am very curious as to
the author`
~