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Visit https://www.totalav.com/nerd70 to get 70% off sponsor TotalAV Today! ~ Welcome to a video about the sea, a video about loss, a video about slot machines, a video about pinball machines. This is a historical look at gambling machines, the sea, pinball and the great pinball ban in America. It's journey, just make sure you have a lifeboat. This video was scripted and edited by @octaviusking Alternative Titles: Why were Pinball machines banned in America? Why Slot Machines are under the sea America Pinball Ban 00:00-23:55 Pinball! 23:55-24:50 TotalAV 24:50-29:10 More Pinball! 🔗Video Links🔗 EARLY PINBALL GAME https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball#/media/File:Flipper1948.jpg FORTUNA GAME AT MEDIA MUSEUM - WIKIMEDIA COMMONS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fortuna_game_at_Media_museum_Rupriikki.jpg IMPROVEMENT TO BAGATELLE BALLS SHOOTER PATENT https://patents.google.com/patent/US115357A/en BAFFLE BALL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baffle_Ball WHIFFLE BALL AD https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3552&picno=79593 Bolo Board https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=340 Stevo-ball https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2375 Priscilla Dean in Outside The Law 1920 film https://archive.org/details/OutsideTheLaw Chicago in 1936 https://archive.org/details/0994_Chicago_01_45_18_18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a42BphkVqhc LaGuardia smashing up slot machines https://pinball.fandom.com/wiki/Roger_Sharpe?file=RogerSharpeCourt.png Roger Sharpe showing councillors the game https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=131&picno=39919 Baffle Ball - IPDB https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1254&picno=60529 Humpty Dumpty board -IPDB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagatelle#/media/File:Bagatelle.jpg BAGATELLE BOARD - WIKIMEDIA https://archive.org/details/silent-episodes-in-the-life-of-a-gin-bottle Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle - ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/NewsOfTheDay19391937 - News of the Day 1937 https://ia800902.us.archive.org/21/items/SaintPau1941/SaintPau1941.mp4 St Paul police detectives https://archive.org/details/GamblingwithSouls Gambling with Souls film 1936 https://www.loc.gov/item/00694394/ New York subway in 1905 https://www.replaymag.com/roger-sharpe-and-pinball-the-man-who-saved-the-game-movie/ Roger Sharpe demonstrating (photo from Replay magazine) https://picryl.com/media/mayor-la-guardia-7680ee LaGuardia in 1937 https://picryl.com/media/playing-the-pinball-machine-at-the-steelworkers-serbian-club-in-aliquippa-pennsylvania 1941 pinball being played in Pennsylvania 🏆 Support 🏆 Support my channel, get exclusive videos & perks, as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/nostalgianerd from just $1 🏪 NN Shop & Affiliate Links! 🏪 My eBay Shop: https://nnerd.es/NerdShop (Now Re-open!) My Retro Tech book: http://nnerd.me/HVFtSB (2nd edition is out!) Desk Shelves for Retro Computers: http://nnerd.me/RetroShelves (Because you're worth it) 🍻 Share/Like 🍻 If you wish to share this video in forums, social media, on your website, or ANYWHERE else, please do so! It helps tremendously with the channel! Also, giving a thumb up or down also helps with visibility on Youtube. Many thanks! 📟 Subcribe 📟 Click to Subscribe: https://nnerd.es/2K4TYvX 📱 Join me on Social Media 📱 🐥 http://www.twitter.com/nostalnerd 🎮 http://www.twitch.tv/nostalgianerd 👱🏼📘 http://www.facebook.com/nostalnerd 📸 http://www.instagram.com/nostalgianerd 🌍 http://www.nostalgianerd.com 🎥 Equipment 🎥 Panasonic Lumix G5 Rode NT-1 Mic Corel Video Studio Ultimate 2020 Corel Paint Shop Pro 2020 📜 Resources 📜 In video links and references are provided where possible. If you believe I have forgotten to attribute anything, please let me know (drop me an email via. the about page on Youtube or send me a tweet), so I can add it here. Apologies if I have missed anything out, it takes time to make these videos and therefore it can be easy to forget things or make a mistake. Errors and omissions excepted. Some material in this video may be used under Fair Dealing / Fair Use. Where under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 (UK: Sections 29 and 30 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988), allowance is made for purposes including parody, quotation, criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, education and research. Fair Dealing / Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.