Is pinball a game of chance or skill? Players and politicians disagreed. While pinball fans saw the game as cheap, harmless fun, city officials saw it as vice that "breeds graft and corruption and incites children to steal to get the money to play the machines." Pinball was banned in New York City on January 21, 1942 and remained an illegal pastime until one player, Roger Sha...
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