Bryans vintage ALLWIN arcade vintage retro slot machine old penny Allwin polo machines. "Win a Polo" Antique penny Slot Machine on Stand, UK
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Allwin Supreme penny slot machine. A game of skill in which a ball bearing is released by the insertion of a coin, and is then propelled around a track with winning holes in the centre. A very popular choice with visitors to the seaside penny arcades in the 1940's up until the 1960's. In the earliest gambling machines, the coin or a ball fell through the machine to land, lost, in the cashbox or in a cup that guaranteed a payout. A variation of this, the Pickwick, was developed in 1900 to add a little skill to basic luck. The winning cup could be moved in an attempt to catch the descending ball. The Allwin, patented in 1913, became the quintessential British arcade game. A metal ball was propelled up and around a metal track to fall into one of several cups ranged across the machine. Some cups were losers and the others paid out at varying odds. Allwins were still being made in the 1970s.