Coin Slot Magazine - #058 - 1979 - December [International Arcade Museum]
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manuals seem to be quite rare, and were probably
We need to start now because it doesn't look
only printed in limited numbers for the casinos.
like it's going to be a very easy job.
I got my manual -- actually a xerox -- from a casino
it can be done.
slot boss, so I've made a copy for you.
gether.
It should
help.
But I think
We're all gonna' have to pull to
So all you Iowa collectors, please get in
touch with me at:
Now
I
need your
help.
Rich Penn
While I've got the
manual, I need pictures and other material in or
835 Logan Ave.
der to complete the Coin Slot Guide.
Waterloo, IA 50703
What I'd
Phone:
like are photographs -- in black & white -- of the
machine, outside, inside and mechanisms.
319-233-6530
Do you
know a photographer, or can you take the pic
P.S.
tures?
100% white.
If you could have someone shoot a roll
I can remember when that map was almost
One by one we're getting the job
of b&w film of the machine and then just send
done.
You people can take most of that credit.
me the roll - I'll develop and print here -- that
You
would be great, and it would be a great help to
For that. . .thanks.
were
the
key
ingredient
way
back when.
all of the other Mills FRONT OPEN owners across
the country.
Thanks, and I hope this does the trick for you.
Regards;
Dick Bueschel
- - - FOLLOW UP PIECE
Dear Bill,
I've
by Dave Saul
been watching closely - and
with some
At the time
dismay - the gradual blackening of your "Legal
States" map.
I'm a bit dismayed because of the
I
wrote "What Are The Payout
Odds For Your 3-Reeler?" (Coin Slot, Oct. 79),
obvious "white" state in the midwest that is sur
my acquaintance with the Mills FUTURITY had
rounded by Legal States.
been as a player and observer.
That state happens to
ed!
Fo; about a year now, I've been working try
ing to get our law amended and "alas" it looks
like
we'll
have
something
to
introduce
legislature in January of 1980.
I admit it, I was
conned just as the FUTURITY'S designers intend
be Iowa. And that is where I live.
in
the
There's
behind
:
rom -mus
f
d
e
e collec
muster a lot of extra support
ad Iowa
oad . -- a from
l
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r
n
tors -- or that laws
w more uphill battle.
Dow got //w an w even
:
http this letter, it'd help. Any and
If you'd publish
looking facade.
It turns
out that the FUTURITY has a weird mechanical
setup that actually causes payout odds to change
from one play to another.
om machine's
.c the
m
u
e
Between now and then, I'm going to have to
really quite a shell game going on
that innocent
Odds are tipped in
favor when the pointer gets near
a full count of ten that would give the player his
money back.
This feature, unfortunately, makes
the overall payout percentage extremely difficult
to calculate, requiring math techniques far beyond
the scope of the October article.
In the mean
every collector in the state needs to get in touch
time,
with me and I'll outline what needs to be done
another gaming
and who needs to be talked to.
scrutinizing its inner workings with extreme care!
© The International Arcade Museum
I've promised
myself never, never to take
machine
at
face
value without
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