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Wednesday 23 May 2018 at 10:16
It was a common practice of the period, to keep up with the times and remain competitive with other scoring games. Most EM games moved to 5 digits by 1969-1970.
This is similiar to what Gottlieb did in the late 1970s at the dawn of the early SS by making score reels look like digital displays. Sco...
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