thumb|More traditional skee-ball machines like this one do not include the two additional "100 points" holes, located on the uppermost corners of the machine, on either side of the "50 points" hole. Skee-Ball is an arcade game and one of the first redemption games. It is played by rolling a ball up an inclined lane and over a "ball-hop" hump (resembling a ski jump) that jumps the ball into bullseye rings. The object of the game is to collect as many points as possible by having the ball fall into holes in the rings which have progressively increasing point values the higher the ring is.
thumb|More traditional skee-ball machines like this one do not include the two additional "100 points" holes, located on the uppermost corners of the machine, on either side of the "50 points" hole. Skee-Ball is an arcade game and one of the first redemption games. It is played by rolling a ball up an inclined lane and over a "ball-hop" hump (resembling a ski jump) that jumps the ball into bullseye rings. The object of the game is to collect as many points as possible by having the ball fall into holes in the rings which have progressively increasing point values the higher the ring is.
==History== Skee-Ball was invented and patented in 1908 by Joseph Fourestier Simpson, a resident of Vineland, New Jersey. On December 8, 1908, Simpson was granted for his "game". Simpson licensed the game to John W. Harper and William Nice Jr., who created the Skee-Ball Alley Company and began marketing the thirty-two-foot games in early 1909. The game's first apparent mention in the press is a The Press of Atlantic City advertisement of April 17, 1908, mentioned that it had Skee-Ball available for play, and its next day's issue noted that "this new and novel game is being exhibited on the pier." About two months later the first alley was sold. Alleys continued to sell slowly over the next few years. The company's first advertisement offering Skee-Ball games for sale appeared on April 17, 1909, in Billboard magazine.
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