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It has been for 30 years but recently they took a vote to lift the ban...It failed. They were afraid if they lifted the ban it would lead to prostitution and child deliquintcy.
This is a state that likes to tell you how to live...must wear a helmet on motorcycle, must wear a seatbelt, must not own pinball....it's for your own good..You'll thank us later.
http://www.joystickdivision.com/2011/05/marshfield_ma_upholds_video_ga.php
Quoted from mykquillion:This article specifically says they are not talking about pinball machines, just full-sized video arcade games:
Thats not true...
The law bans all coin operated arcade games including pinball. The article you posted gives one persons opinion of thier interprtation of the law, but the law states all coin operated arcade games.
It's being reported on the news stations around here that it includes Pinball as well as any other coin operated game.
They will infect your soul...It's the devils work!!!
Quoted from VT8man:f the old farts in the law offices don't recognize that the arcades of the 80s are long gone, and this industry has moved mainly to residential, we have no choice but to protest. They must just want you to stay in your house and play online....Wait my pins are in my house...what bullshit.
I agree completely. Thats why I posted this. I didn't know about Beacon NY, but now I do.
These towns must be exposed.
They must be shamed into changing the laws. I know they are trying here in MA. It was on Fox 25 news. We must embarrass the people responsible and show them for the fools they are.
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