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Here is a question that has long puzzled me.......
Why has the American coin-op market shunned the ALL-WIN slots ???
They don't appear in major U.S. auctions and, rarely, do you find them in private collections.
American manufacturers did not even choose to copy these machines.
Now, the question is, WHY ???
These All-Win slots are really great coin-ops as far as I am concerned....Fun to watch and great to play.

John t peterson and roger are great fans of these machines in North America.

Let's hear 3 cheers for John and Roger !!CHEERS!! !!YIPPEE!! @&@
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Collectors tend to covet machines they fondly remember playing as children, and American collectors didn't play Allwins
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I've seen two for sale on American Ebay in the last year.

I got one of them.
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Nice !!THUMBSX2!!
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These All-Win slots are really great coin-ops as far as I am concerned
and there are a few American made ones.
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Good question, Roger. My best guess is two-fold. First, the puny payouts of the allwins were dwarfed by the better winnings of the slots. Second, slots were invented at the turn of the century and had a strong hold on the US gambling market at the time of the introduction of the allwins. Since Great Britain had stronger anti-gambling laws than the US, the allwin concept was able to develop and flourish without competition from slot machines. Fast forward to today and you see slot machines omnipresent in England and Europe while allwins are relegated to nostalgic events and retro arcades.

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walternewton wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:06 am I've seen two for sale on American Ebay in the last year.
These are invariably on old British coinage because they weren't operated in America, but exported as 'collectables' in the '70s - '80s.
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European machines aren't popular at all in North America since there's no nostalgia threads to go with them.
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