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Skee ball (also spelled skeeball or skee-ball; sometimes called skee roll) is a common arcade game and one of the first redemption games. It is similar to bowling except it is played on an inclined lane with fist-sized balls and the player aims to get the ball to fall into a hole rather than knock down pins. The object of the game is to collect as many points as possible by rolling balls up an incline and into the designated point value holes. ==History== J. Dickinson Este invented the game in 1909〔(The History of Skee-Ball Machines )〕〔http://www.gamefaqs.com/redemption/918379-skee-ball〕 in Philadelphia. In 1935 the Wurlitzer Corporation purchased the Skee-Ball rights and sold them in 1945 to the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, an amusement park ride manufacturer. In 1977 the Philadelphia Toboggan Company set up Skee-Ball, Inc. to market the game, now located in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. When Maurice Piesen first sold Skee-Ball alleys in 1914 to the outdoor amusement park industry (the stock was held by nine-year-old Maurice on behalf of his father, Hugo Piesen), the game had a lane. This was too big for most arcades and made it so that only people who were quite strong could play it well. As a result, it was later changed to and eventually changed again to the modern length of 10 or . Soon after these changes, skee ball became very common in arcades around the United States. Because prizes were given to the players, the game was considered a form of gambling in some parts of the country. This led to restrictions on the number of machines allowed in an arcade in some places, and banning of the game in other places. These laws, however, did not last long, and thus skee ball is now found in almost all arcades in the country. It is also a staple of the restaurant/arcade chain Chuck E. Cheese's. In 1932, the first ever skee ball tournament was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.〔(About Skee-Ball )〕 ''Super Ball!!'', a version of skee-ball, was a pricing game on the American game show ''The Price Is Right'' from 1981 to 1998. Skee-Ball is now a competitive and social sport being played in bars in North America. Skee-Ball leagues have begun to pop up under various banners including Brewskee-ball, the United Social Sports banner〔(United Social Sports )〕〔(Washington area bars where you can be a kid again: Skeeball )〕 based in Washington DC, SkeeBOSTON 〔(SkeeBOSTON )〕 and The SKEE League 〔(The SKEE League )〕 based in Chicago, IL. These leagues are rapidly increasing in popularity and are expanding the reach of Skee-Ball to new players. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skee ball」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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