I don't recall ever seeing a pinball machine with the payout mechanism/door with flippers.

Gottlieb flipper pinball machines had the non-gambling stamp on the upper left corner of the playfield, on the apron back there, for many years.

LTG : )

Would redemption tickets count?

Not really. I believe he's looking for pinball machines capable of spitting out money.

LTG : )

Before the flipper pinballs were pretty much luck. You could win anything from a free game to a pizza. It wasn't so much the machine itself paying out but the owners
and players turning them into gambling machines. That gave pins a rather seedy reputation for corrupting youth and crap like that .

Ummm........... Many of them had holes, with headless nails around them. And you tried to nudge your ball into a good hole thhat was worth something.

Now in my state, Minnesota. You couldn't win nickels. Only tokens. But in other states ( or cities where they didn't care ), easy to fill the hopper with nickels instead of tokens.

LTG : )

My Spitfire has a three-digit credit reel. You can win up to 200 replays in one game if you pop in an extra nickel to play the "star feature".

There's a "knock-off" button on the bottom of the cabinet that resets the replays.

It wouldn't directly pay you out, you'd get your money from the proprietor -- ain't no one playing those 200 replays!

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Williams made another game called "Star Pool" (the woodrail one) which also had the "star" feature and three digit credit reel.

It used to be a source of income in my younger years.
Buy a credit win some games, then sell those credits for cash.
Used to be able to make a pack of cigarettes and a six pack of beer pretty regularly.
Would that be gambling?

Gottlieb woodrails in the 50's had a double feature, whereby players could add an extra coin and try and double up.

Apparently, if they won a ton of credits, they could often be exchanged at the bar.

These games are more collectible.

Here is a classic 1954 Dragonette - see double on glass.

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Definitely used by players as a form of gambling against each other... I've no doubt that these small wagers would have had a big impact in the commercial success of operators and sales.

Williams also made Colors and Peter Pan with the star feature. Four total, I believe.
J

There’s a flipperless game I can’t remember the name, it’s a short woodrail. Basically you plunge the ball into a roulette wheel and it lands on numbers roughly 2 through 12 so you can guess what that means. Kept plunging until you got a 7.

A lot of pins in my opinion were gambling assistance. They would gamble on the results of the pinball and exchange the money themselves

Here’s my super score. Crowd favorite over here. Basically you build up the value of the A,B and C and spin the wheel. Star is extra ball. It’s a replay game though. In theory you could gamble on it. I don’t, nor allow it.

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Nothing special about Lady Luck(Williams EM) except the early Players determined it to be the best "21" game out there.
As I understand it was popular on Military Bases where guys would gamble their pay.
Playing it I can understand, learn the quirks of the the thing and you could beat the snot out of joe blow stepping up.

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