{"id":246492,"date":"2026-07-18T07:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246492\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:55:17","slug":"skill-games-declared-unlawful-in-pennsylvania-replay-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246492\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSkill Games\u201d Declared Unlawful in Pennsylvania \u2013 RePlay Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared \u201cskill games\u201d unlawful, striking down two lower court rulings and setting up a likely legal battle in the state.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17106 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Massachusetts-arcades-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Capital-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/penncapital-star.com\/government-politics\/pa-skill-games-decision-could-ban-arcade-games-without-legislative-regulation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that Justice David Wecht said in his opinion for the court\u2019s 4-2 majority that \u201cenforcement hypothetically could stretch to traditional arcade games, often found at family entertainment centers like Chuck E. Cheese or Dave &amp; Buster\u2019s.\u201d It will take the state legislature\u2019s action to clarify the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Skill game maker Pace-O-Matic argued in court that if their machines are considered a form of gambling, then \u201call ordinary ticket-generating games at amusement businesses\u201d would also be illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless there\u2019s a change in the law, those games are gambling devices,\u201d said Bruce Antkowiak, a law professor at St. Vincent College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared \u201cskill games\u201d unlawful, striking down two lower court rulings and setting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-246492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}