Patentmania: The Golden Age of Electronic Games

The first era of computerized fun was crude, clunky...and unforgettable.

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Video Slot Machine Patent

Video Slot Machine

Filed February 3rd, 1976

An early attempt by Bally to design a successful video-based one-armed bandit. More than thirty years later, the old-school mechanical ones still seem more popular than video ones.

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