Town lifts decades-old ban on arcade games
Former NFL player Adam "Pacman" Jones appears in the courtroom of Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Herndon at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. (Craig L. Moran/Las Vegas Review-Journal file)
A Massachusetts town has reversed a ban on coin-operated arcade games that has been in place since 1982.
The ban was cause for controversy when it was first instated, but opposing voices quieted after the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to it in 1983.
Town votes upheld the ban in 1994 and 2011. Now, residents of Marshfield, Mass., have voted 203-175 to allow the games, according to the Patriot Ledger.
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