Sega Mad Money Slot Machine
Besides, the Mad Money is one of Service Games’ more interesting slot machines. The Sega Mad Money was originally branded to highlight the popularity of the then-new Mad magazine, and featured the publication’s iconic Alfred E. Neuman on the machine’s attraction display. Vinatage Antique Slot Machine SEGA.MAD MONEY. 1960's ORIGINAL $ 1,000.00. VINTAGE ARISTOCRAT 'ARCADIAN' SLOT MACHINE. 25 CENT LOCAL PICKUP ONLY $ 750.00. Vintage 1930s Fully Restored Mills Poinsettia Nickel Slot Machine Mint Condition $ 1,950.00. Vintage 1930s/1940s Slot Machine-Style Trade Stimulator with Cigaretrte Reels.
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Len Ainsworth born 1924
(there is a wealth of information on the web regarding the Aristocrat company, here we will cover just the basics and look at some of their machines)
Ainsworth industries were founded in 1933 by a NSW dentist to make heavy ,floor standing dental equipment, the dentist's son, Leonard was just 9 at the time. By the time he was 20 Len was in medical school with his father hoping he would follow his footsteps or even become a doctor, but it wasn't for Len, he left college in 1953 with just high school diploma and took over the dental equipment side of his fathers business. An engineer at the company had recognised the similarity between the way the dental equipment was made and that of mechanical slot machines,he mentioned this to Len who then started to look into the possibilities of making slots and if they would sell.
As luck would have it the timing was spot on for the switch, The Johnson act in the USA had all but destroyed the slot makers there while Australia was a booming and expanding market with no manufacturer and undersupplied with machines. So the Ainsworth Dental equipment Co-designed their first machine, the Clubman followed soon by the 'Clubmaster' .Luck was on Lens side again as just as the machine was launched in 1953/4 NSW legalised slots and Len soon had the market in the palm of his hand. Within a few years, the company dominated sales in Australia.
Late in 1954 Len realised he had really become successful when shady rivals planted a bomb in his factory and blew the roof off. When the police asked Len if he had any enemies Len, always a clam quite man, replied that he was beginning to think he had. The police told ' buy a shotgun and put chicken wire on his windows , your in the big time now'
The Clubman (1953) The New Clubman (1954)
The Clubman was made under the name of the Ainsworth Dental supply Co
at Rosebery NSW , initially at the rate of 2 per week
Clubmaster 1956
Very early photo of Clubmasters being played(1956)
In 1960 the company opened offices in the UK and Europe and in 1961 a large factory in Sydney, they launched their Nevada poker machine the same year, this type of machine knownas a 'Pokkie' was the big hit in Australia and the money began to roll in.
Aristocrat Nevada 1964 Kingsway 'Pokkie'
Unlike many slot companies Len was quick to see the advantages of electro mechanical slots and introduced the worlds very first machine of its kind in 1965, the 'Moon Money'this was enough to see off the attack by Bally with similar machines and Len held onto the Australian market (the second biggest in the world)
The Aristocrat 'Moon Money 1965
Len said this machine was the first Electro-mechanical slot in the world,the company said it was the first Electronic slot in the world, In fact it is neither as electro-mechanical slot machines had been around for years and its clearly part mechanical so its not electronic, Bally were boasting of (and are credited with) the first fully electromechanical machine of this kind,the Money Honey but that pre dates the Moon Money by two years anyway.
Jubilee Spotlight
In 1980 Len launched a hostile takeover of rivalNutt & Muddle's Jubilee company , at first blocked by the government it was eventually successful in 1985.
The company had great success with their smaller,cheaper machines,like all Aristocrat machines built to last .
Arcadian Starlite
In 1994 Len was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer and handed over control of the company and its income to his wife and seven sons in equal shares worth tens of millions each, in true Len style there was a restriction if any of them sold their share while he still lived he got half the money. This was his way of keeping the business in family hands, the sons didn't like it and it led to a long family feud ,One son sold his share and Len sued him . Six months later, also in typical Len style, he beat cancer and, as yet, it never returned. Len attempted to return to the company but the family blocked him. so ,at 72 years old he formed a new one, Ainsworth Gaming Tech and built it up into another huge company.Len sold his stake in this company in 2016 to Novamatic for $475 million but stayed on as chairman.which as of 2017 he still is. The original company,still 40% family-owned is now the second biggest slot maker in the world, second only to IGT in the USA itself a spin-off from Aristocrat.
When it comes to slot machine success forget Mills, Jennings and the rest ,add them all together and they would be insignificant compared to Aristocrat's $900,000,000 annual turnover and Lens personal wealth of $4 billion (as of 2019). Len himself seems indestructible, still working at 95 and still driving his Porsche. When he received his $475,000,000 payout from selling Ainsworth Gaming Tech in 2016 he announced most of it would be going to charity.
When Len finally received the massive cheque when the deal was signed in Jan 2018 he announced he would be cutting back to only working 4 days a week in the future.He was awarded the member of the Order of Australia in the Queens birthdays honours list in 2018 for“significant service to business and manufacturing”
Late 2020 update:- No Len hasn't died,in fact he's still working hard and is considering a new business venture, storage units!!
A selection of Aristocrat Machines
1960's 'Mad Melons' console 1970's Regal 'Honey Bee' four reel
1956 Clubmaster 1960's Olympic
Kingsway 'Geronimo' Grosvenor
Arcadian Sheerline
Nevada rare 1980'e Silver Cloud 5 reel
Clubmaster(open) Clubmaster(top )
Regal 'Bobby Dazzler 4 reel aristocrat mech
Flyer
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Made in the USA? The machine, well not really but the company most definitely yes. In 1940 three Americans ,Martin Bromley, Irving Bromberg and James Humpert, living in the US run territory of Hawaii sensing the coming of war and the American build up of armed forces ,particularly in the Pacific, formed Standard Games to supply coin operated machines (mostly slot machines) to military bases in the area
Within a year the war arrived (Bromley was actually at Pearl Harbour during the Japanese attack) During the war years the company became quite successful but because of the war was unable to expand.
This changed in 1946 ,now called Service Games, referring to its military connections, they started to supply machines to American and Allied bases across the occupied Pacific region. By 1950 it was clear the main market was in US occupied Japan with its huge number of US military personnel with large amounts of both time and money on there hands.
So in 1951 the company moved everything to Tokyo and was renamed Service Games of Japan. In 1954 the most important person in the early development of SEGA appears on the scene , David Rosen, who was actually in the US forces based in Japan at the time and recognised the potential of coin ops in Japan and formed Rosen Enterprises in 1954 mostly to import coin operated photo booths (the entire population of Japan needed photo ID cards at this time) and later slot machines.
David Rosen
Both companies grew steadily until realising the benefits of joining forces they merged in 1965 to form Service Games Enterprises, the name being a bit of a mouthful was shortened to SEGA at the same time. Although Service Games had already used the new name well before 1965
Rosen became the driving force at SEGA and pushed the company forward, however looking for finance to developed electronic games Rosen sold SEGA to the American Giant Gulf+Western in 1969 but stayed on as CEO and this led to the development of SEGA's first home console unit the SG1000. In 1983 the video gaming market crashed almost bankrupting SEGA. Its US components were sold off to Bally while the Japanese side was sold to Japanese amusement arcade magnet Hayao Nakayama and David Rosen. In 1984 This new version of Sega was bought by Japanese IT company CSK and the resilient Rosen stayed on retiring as chairman in 1996.
Game development
Early Sega Bell Later Model
Service Games bought the rights to distribute Mills Hi-tops in what the contract described as 'The Pacific Ocean Area' in 1956 and may have started re branding them as early as 1957 and making their own version in 1958 along with their version of the Mills Vest Pocket machine under the name Mini Sega.
This was a bad deal for the already failing Mills company still reeling from the effects of the Johnson Act. It would seem to be a desperate act of a failing company but it didn't work as it in effect gave away the Far east market at a time when foreign markets were the only option for US slot makers and didn't even protect their rights in that area allowing Sega to make their own machines by saying they were making custom machines for individual customers. Eventually Mills sold much of their spares and tooling to SEGA including one of their three sets of dies ,the best, almost unused, set!
Copper Star Mad Money
The UK was the first SEGA market outside the Pacific area (1960) The company started to produce slots aimed directly at a particular country and produced the 'Copper Sega' in 1963 for the UK market and the 'Mad Money' for the US market but the Mad Money was never sold to the US due to copyright problems with Mad magazine . Their small Windsor Series was offered to various distributers with the option to use their own art work and special features.The Sega market in the UK faded after 1965 and there are no records of slots arriving in the UK after that date, SEGA didn't really return to the UK until the video era around 1981.
Windsors
Playboy Mad Money
Aztec(with wild symbol) Adams Apple(with special feature)
One of the most common Windsors was this Buckingham with visible hand filled jackpot
One arm bandit style machines were actually only a small side of SEGA production after about 1963,when they based their production on large cabinet arcade machines with which they were already getting great success and were cheaper to make in Japan due to low labour costs
Soccer Duck Hunt 2
The very successful Helicopter Trainer Multi Futbol (European model)
There are several views on what SEGA's first machine actually was depending on the company name at the time and just how much of the machine was a SEGA.
SOME of the options for SEGA's first game are
First SEGA branded game SEGA Bell (1957)
First SEGA 100% built game Punch Bag (1962) although this game is clearly an update of a much earlier Mills punch bag and there is considerable evidence that the game actually came out in 1966
Punching Bag (1962/66) the remarkably similar Mills(1909)
First SEGA arcade game fully SEGA designed and built Periscope (1966)
Single Unit Periscope
Multi Unit Periscope with design Specs
periscope was a huge success and set SEGA on their large arcade machine course.Midway Co would become a rival
TheirSkill Digger Craneis dated 1965 but is thought to be a copy of another cabinet, the later Skill Digger with the interesting option to 'stir' the prizes once for every coin didn't come out till late 1966
Skill Diga
Some more of Sega's machines
Slots
Mad Money Early Bonanza Star
Bonus Star Starlet
Continental Diamond Star
Bonanza Star Mini Sega
Progressive Star Bonaza Starline (30 payout)
Monaco Star Multibell 35 Console
Blackjack Ascot
Arcade Cabinet Games
(perhaps more informative to view these through Flyers of the time)
Super Helicopter 1968 Attack(tank battle)1973
Basketball Jet Rocket
Sega Mad Money Slot Machine
Motopolo Moto Champ
Rifleman(with target printout) Duck Hunt
Astrodata fortune teller 1973 Skill Diga(mk1) 1966
Sega Sammy Slot Machines
The Sega Jumbo(1973) has to be one of the cleverest and most addictive 'win a prize' games ever made. Watch the video top left of the page to truly appreciate it
Sega Slot Machine 1950s
Sega Jumbo 1973