Pinball machines in the pool halls.

"Biffers"

When I was going to school in New Orleans in the late 60's the city was full of them. Locals I hung out with called them "biffers". Cash payout by the bartender if you hit.
Declared illegal on or about the mid "70's". They rounded up all they could find and dumped them in the middle of the Mississippi.
 
I had a pinball machine in my home man cave called Millionaire... it had multi ball, talked to you, ramps, and a roulette wheel inset in the middle of the playfield. Was a great machine.

People would decide they didn't like losing money to me on the pool table so they would challenge me to pinball. I would open up the machine to hit the switch to get a play credit for free. What they didn't know was that when I hit the button for me, I would reach up and adjust the tilt mechanism in my favor but when I hit the button for them, I would make the machine more sensitive for tilts.

Silly bastards. :)
 
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Catahula said:
When I was going to school in New Orleans in the late 60's the city was full of them. Locals I hung out with called them "biffers". Cash payout by the bartender if you hit.
Declared illegal on or about the mid "70's". They rounded up all they could find and dumped them in the middle of the Mississippi.
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That was a damn shame.......many of those machines were works of art created by geniuses....I don't see why they would be trashed in that way.
I wish they were still around; I'd certainly play them.....they were more fun than ordinary slot machines.....
 
In the early 60's, when I started wasting my teenage life at the pool hall, part of the group's definition of good were knowing how to play 8 ball, 9 ball, and winning free games on the two pin ball machines.

I got so good that I always had to leave a dozen free games on the machine in order to go home on time.
:angry: Had lots of buddies ready to take over as they reminded me that I had to leave. :angry:
 
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