Waiting for Another Decision

Moxie Mania is the game that just won’t go away. The state of New York had decided that the games were not slot machines and that they could be played in the bars, etc. around the state. This meant an influx of the slot machine like games and people loved playing them. They brought in money for the bar owners and the patrons liked being able to make some extra money.

Then last month the State Liquor Authority Board ruled that they weren’t “slot machine like” that they were actual slot machines. They said that they were illegal and that the games needed to be removed from the bars as they did not have permission to operate illegal slot machines.

The company that has the right to distribute the slot machines across the state, Excelsior Distributors, then had to pull the games from the floors of all of the bars and locations that they had put them. Now they are sitting with hundreds of the slot machines in a warehouse with nowhere to put them. Loy Riggio, the president of the company, says that he has $400,000 worth of merchandise sitting here that he cannot move.

The games look like a highly sophisticated version of tic-tac-toe, but they pay out large amounts of money to some winners. Once the court said that they were slot machines and illegal, Pace-O-Matic won a stay from the judge, so for now they are legal, but no one is ordering any more games until they know how this will pan out. Not only that, but many want them gone now, so they have been removing them from the locations as well.
 

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