Coin Slot Magazine - #089 - 1982 - July[International Arcade Museum]
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spaced* holes, each corresponding to a playing card
pictured on the vertical, glass backboard. The corre
sponding card would light up on the glass for whichever
hole the ball landed in, after meandering about from
hole to hole. The player attempted to get a winning
poker hand. A straight or full house (worth one coupon)
or better was paid off by the poker roll attendant A
royal flush would get you about 50 coupons. After
rolling all five balls, another nickel in the slide brought
the balls back to you for the next game.
It wasn't difficult to win at poker roll, and you
received one or more coupons each time you won (as
opposed to just a few points at skee ball; 10 points = 1
coupon). Also, it was much more comfortable sitting
down at poker roll than standing and stooping over for
skee ball.
I discovered that a homemade poker roll game can
easily be made, using one or more cupcake cooking
trays and tennis balls. Assign playing cards to the
holes (cut up an old deck of cards), get something to
act as the back and side walls, and a ramp at the front (a
masonite board does well). Then step back five feet,
and you're ready to play.
Poker roll may go under other names such as Poko-
ball, and maybe Pokerino.
COMPETITIVE GAMES
Some arcades have, or consist entirely of, a competi
tive gambling game, where players complete against
each other, with only one player paid off (in tokens or
coupons) for each game. There are various racing
games (usually with a pinball mechanism to determine
speed), bingo and various mechanical forms of bingo
(somewhat like poker roll, but with one ball rolled over
and over as fast as possible) going under many different
names, such as Fascination.
"As many as sixty players sat at rectangular or
horseshoe-shaped counters placing bets with tokens
at specified odds on various numbers on a board in
front of each chair. Then three . .. players would be
chosen at random... to... toss an India-rubber ball into
a nearby basket with a mouth two and a half feet wide.
When the balls stopped moving in the shallow holes at
the bottom of the basket, the numbers of the holes
were recorded electrically; attendants raked in losing
tokens and paid winning patrons. Tokens exchanged
freely for cash, and the house took about 8 percent of
each play."
The tossing of balls into a basket was supposed to
make this gambling game pass as a skill amuse
ment game. The Baskill name on the token
apparently is a contracted "basket skill."
A New Line
Paces RACES & Bakers PACERS Owners
Watch it operate!
A. Red & green rubber tubing sets
Never before available, replacement tubing
superior to the original. Finest quality EPDM
tubing custom made for me.
Uncut ample for one installation.
Set #1. Red (for vacuum and power lines). Green (for vent
and secondary lines). $225. ppd. & insured.
Set #2. As above but substitute black for green. $150.
PPD. & insured
Set #3. Red only(vacuum and power lines). $125. PPD& insured
B. Custom made blonde hardwood and walnut side panel with wide-
beveled V* inch plate glass insert. Custom made to your measurements.
Unfinished $275; finished $350. Plus shipping and insurance. (Polaroid of
panel $2.00.)
C. Custom clear valve box covers 'A inch plexiglass with polished edges,
standoffs and hardware. Watch 'em operate. $45. PPD.
D. Light kit for mechanism fully wired, no drilling for inconspicuous
mounting. $35. PPD.
E Bakers PACERS top glass screened exactly as original. $300. plus
shipping and insurance.
F. Bakers PACERS name card for marquee. Aged paper $25.
PPD. and insured
Valve boxes and pneumatics rebuilt Machines totally restored. Inquire.
Buckley BONES Owners: Complete sets of 4 etched and
enameled nickel-silver name and award plates. $95.
PPD. and insured
CASH OR CHECK PAYABLE TO: Tony Goodstone, please.
Attention Dealers: Call or write for wholesale prices.
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Another tt such
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Penni-Hearts,Baskill token was a mystery to me until I
came across a description of this game in a 1941 book
on the history of Coney Island:
July, 1982
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