On Monday, 21 October 2019, John Willis via Tagging wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Oct 22, 2019, at 3:11 AM, Shawn K. Quinn <skqu...@rushpost.com> wrote:
> > 
> > leisure=amusement_arcade ?
> 
> This is between =gambling and =adult_gaming_center, two established tags that 
> both claim to be the proper way to map a Pachinko parlor. A Pachinko machine 
> is a type of "gaming machine" in the gambling sense, like a slot machine. It 
> is not an arcade game, like pac-man, though it uses steel balls like pinball. 
> Pachinko is a luck-based machine, not skil-based like pac-man or pinball.
> 
> Arcades are full of skill games (for the most part), and full of kids and 
> teens playing Street Fighter, Galaga, claw machines, and such. 
> 
> Pachinko Parlors are full of grandpas gambling away their afternoons the 
> nickel machines (5yen Pachinko or slot machines). 
> 
In the UK slot machines and arcade games are usually in the same space and are 
known as amusement arcades.

Phil (trigpoint)

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