The growing skill games industry in Pennsylvania has been scorned publicly for several years by the casino industry, lottery officials, state gaming board, and law enforcement, and for the first time Wednesday that industry had a chance to defend itself before state lawmakers.
Officials from Georgia-based Pace-O-Matic, developer of the trademarked Pennsylvania Skill Game and self-touted as the leading skill games manufacturer in the country, appeared before the Senate Community, Economic, and Recreational Development Committee to seek regulation and taxation of their product.
Untold tens of thousands of the skill games exist in a gray area of law — still being hashed out in state courts — in such neighborhood locations as bars, clubs, and convenience stores.
