Fascinating history

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I was browsing the web looking for info on Peter Simper and came across this most fascinating article at Intergame Online. It's Michael Green's memoir covering the last 50 years of the British coin machine business. Even more fascinating is the page of comments from other people associated with the business. There's not much info about specific coin machines, but it gives a really intimate feeling of what things were like in those days. Just the names they drop are a major resource for researchers.

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InterGame have revamped their website and removed this terrific page of anecdotes. With their permission I've republished it in the Arena: The Speakeasy. It's an entertaining read and shows how much these old timers could tell us about the origins and history behind the machines we're so fond of. Michael Green is hoping to put his 30 page biography in print if he can find a publisher.