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Zoltar the Fortune Teller is the coin-operated machine in the movie "Big" that changed Tom Hanks' character into a grown-up. The publicity from the movie created a market for the machine, and copies ...

Morphy Auctions, the Denver-based auction house, will host a three-day auction May 4-6 featuring more than 2,100 19th-century and early 20th-century antique coin-operated arcade, music, gambling, ...

ATLANTA – Legislation aimed at reforming Georgia’s coin-operated amusement machines (COAM) industry is headed to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk after squeaking through the state Senate.

Coin-operated machines have a longer history than you might think. Ancient temples used them to dispense, for example, holy water to the faithful in return for their coins. Old payphones rang a bell ...