Coin Slot

Coin Slot Magazine - #083 - 1982 - January [International Arcade Museum]
Letters to the Editor
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machine is purely an amusement game and not a trade
stimulator. That should in no way lesson its value, but it does
put it in a class by itself, probably as an arcade machine.
The net of all this is that we can't really quote a price. If
Dear Editor
you're really interested, and want to sell it — which may be the
Please find out the value and rarity of a trade stimulator called
reason you're asking about the value — put it up for mail
the DARBY. It was made in 1931 by the J. W. Whitlock
auction and see what it'll bring. Then you'll know for sure.
Company of Rising Sun Indiana.
Sincerely,
Thank you,
Editor
Joe Silberstein
Dear Sirs,
I have enclosed a picture of a BALLY SKILL ROLL. I am
Dear Joe,
That's a toughie. For a number of reasons. First, your
looking for as much information about this machine as possible.
machine isn't in any ofthe Trade Stimulatorprice guides, so we
Also am interested in someone in this area to do paint
don't have that logo by. Secondly, there has been little or no
restoration on the backglass.
trading in the machine in the past seven or eight years, so no
Sincerely,
prices have been established. Thirdly, the question is whether
Doug Schwager
the Whitlock DARBY is a trade stimulator at all J.
W.
Whitlock ofRising Sun, Indiana was a majorproducer in the
Dear Doug,
mechanical music business, and when Q. David Bowers went
down there in the 1960s and found so many marvelous
your machine.
We like to get letters like yours. They're different And so is
machines (see his books published by Vestal Press, and sold
When the Johnson Act brought slot machines to a screaming
through Coin Slot Books) he also found a batch ofthe DARB Y
halt the manufacturers tried any and everything to keep the coin
machines. No doubt yours is one of the machines sold by
machine business rolling. Bally, for one, got very creative and
Bowers at that time. His price, way back when, was less than
ended up making horsie ridesfor supermarkets plus a bunch of
$200, and it would be unfair to establish a value based on a
very short-lived arcade games. The SKILL ROLL is one of
selling price set over a decade ago. He literally "unloaded"
those games. Actually, Bally made two about the same time.
them at bargain rates. To date none of these machines have
The prime game was called TARGET ROLL, with SKILL
shown up with reward cards that suggest you could win trade,
ROLL a spin-off of the original game. SKILL ROLL is Bally
cigars or anything else when you put in your coin and played
machine No. 601, and entered production on February 26,
the race horse game. With that in mind, it would seem that the
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a Happy New Year!
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