Percentage of game / slot machine rooms in the USA ?

[tdg8934]

After a trip recently to Las Vegas (loosing bad this time on slots), I decided to buy a couple of machines. I just started collecting IGT S2000 slot machines with a 25c hopper/ticketed Double Red White Blue as well as a $1 ticketed Triple Diamond. My wife thinks its crazy and not normal (afraid of being arrested) having gambling devices in our house basement (thinking neighbors might hear and break in maybe).

Does anyone know of a study or the percentage of people that have slot machine / gaming rooms in their homes?

[Chris-socal]

Someone please say anything under 100 is normal! I won’t stop until the circuit breaker maxes out!
No one here is going to indicate that there is a maximum! Anyone?

[rickhunter]

The max is related to room available for the machines.  I have around 24 machines.  As far as the circuit breaker, it depends on your home wiring.  I usually cannot have more than 6 bb2 or later slots being played simultaneously on a single 10 amp circuit without triggering a circuit popping. Modern stepper machines (newer than s2000's)  usually about 5 at a time.

[Chris-socal]

Honestly I might have to check if all my machines are on one circuit. I have turned them all on and never had it trip. 3 slots/video poker, 3 pinball machines, 2 cocktail table games and a Megatouch. It must be on two breakers! You must have a large dedicated space if you have 24 machines in one room. Sounds fun!
To clarify, all of this conversation is to support tdg8934 that his collection is by no means maxed out! We support you brother!

[tdg8934]

Thanks for all your responses! Great to know the quantities running in your homes. However I was really looking for the amount or percentage of people that have machines in general. Is there a statistic on this? Like 2% or something?

[shortrackskater]

I think I have 19 machines, with 6 being mechanical.
Slot machines are like Lay's Potato chips..."Bet you can't have just one."


I'd say there's a high percentage of those people here on this forum, which is clearly the largest in the USA. We have a few members outside the country - maybe 5 that are active. You could take the number of members on this forum (listed somewhere, and perhaps lesson it by a few hundred to account for inactive members that may have either died or no longer have their machine) and divide it into the population of males in the USA age 30-75. Most on NLG have EM machines and newer, so this really would only account for those owners, and not the population that also possess strictly mechanical machines. So you'd have to head over to CoinOpCollectorForum and look at their numbers as well.
There's a math equation in there somewhere.
And maybe none of what I just wrote makes any sense. Someone chime in! 

[Chris-socal]

I am always surprised at the number of people I have bought machines from who know nothing about them or this forum. More than half. I buy a good number of machines that don’t work. Many have been easy fixes because the owner didn’t want to figure out how to charge a battery or something like that. But to calculate an actual percentage of homes with slot machines would be a tall order.
How many households have waffle irons?