State statistics indicate that 4,752 such video machines are now located in nearly 1,600 retail locations across Nebraska, from convenience stores, to grocery stores, to restaurants and bars.
What’s not hard now is finding one of these skill games.
“It’s a little rush when you win,” he said. “Win Big” beckons the sign on the U-Stop Convenience store at 13th and South Streets in Lincoln, a location where skill games were only recently installed. Seda wasn’t winning today, but he said he once put $3 into a machine in Norfolk and, on plays costing 25 cents each, eventually lined up the characters to win $6,000. “It’s something to do,” said 28-year-old Gregorio Seda, who, on his day off, was pushing the buttons on a video machine called “The Buffalo Game,” causing figures of buffalo, eagles and deer to tumble on the screen like a video slot machine. The messages don’t refer to the loaves of breads and six-packs of beer that fill the aisles of the store, but to three so-called “skill games” tucked in a corner.
LINCOLN - The poster on the side of the U-Stop convenience store in south Lincoln proclaims “win big.” Just inside the business, another sign flashes “win cash.”
