They can be found in restaurants, bars, shopping malls, gas stations, stores, amusement parks and arcades. There's no official count of how many amusement machines are operating in Maryland, but Bershtein guessed up to 14,000. The new regulations are meant to create categories broad enough to cover an array of different machines, everything from old-fashioned skeeball to a high-tech flight simulator games, games of skill and chance. … It needs to be regulated, it needs one set of rules.'
'What covers these machines one week won't cover them six months later. 'The technology changes on a week-by-week basis,' Miller said. As it is, he said, a patchwork of local regulations cover machines that are constantly changing - sometimes as manufacturers and operators try to evade the law. Mike Miller said the legislation was meant to establish one state legal standard for game machines not covered in state law. Vincent, the lottery agency's director of research and chief of staff. The new law is expected to bring more scrutiny and more coordinated enforcement, making it tougher for illegal slot machines to operate, said Jaclyn L.