
Irish Sweepstakes
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Irish Sweepstakes
This peculiar arcade game is themed around the Irish Hospital Sweepstake which ran from 1930 to 1987, supposedly to raise funds for under-invested medical services in Ireland, but mostly to line the lottery owners' pockets. The lottery involved nurses drawing the winning tickets (with names of racehorses on them) from a huge rotating drum. Likewise, to play this machine you use the steering wheel to guide the nurse across the rotating drum. The object is for her outstretched arm to release each catch on the drum, thereby lighting a lamp behind the corresponding horse's head. When sufficient lamps are lit, the player's coin is returned. This appears to be the only game which Stevenson and Lovett saw fit to patent: GB607795 |
Stevenson and Lovett
1948
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