Slot Machine Section
Phew! Making a web site is hard - it requires actual work! The layout has to be planned, decent photos have to be taken and carefully cropped and edited, text has to be written .... The day will come when I have a page for each of my machines, with a write-up. But this is not that day.
Below are pictures of some of my machines - about half of them. They are all a bit unusual, and some have quite interesting stories of their own. Like, for example, the machine at top left is a Dale Pokermatic, the first electronic poker machine ever made and the ancestor of all those rows of Game Kings in casinos of today. Next to it is a Bally Distribution copy, made about five years later. The significance of this one is that Bally Distribution eventually became IGT, and this above all others is the game that made their fortune.
But first, here's that picture from the first page again, proper size this time.
All pages copyright 2009, Pete Hand
Dale Pokermatic, 1967
Bally Computer Poker, 1973
Buckley Long Odds
1938
Games, Inc Casino, 1963
Bally Sir Prize, 1966
(much modified)
Gamex New Manix, 1974
Wulff Bingolett, 1957
Bally/Raven Computer 21, 1973
Keeney Wild Arrow - custom -
Jack Lavigna, Barney Shapiro
1961
Las Vegas slot player in the Good Old Days
The machines ...