Jefferson County District Attorney Bob Wortham explains that, with the court’s opinion asserting 8-liner games cannot be lumped in with children’s amusement machines under the protection of state law, the adult gaming machines are free to be classified as they truly are: Gambling devices. A March opinion from a Texas appeals court deems the gaming machines “lotteries,” which are unlawful in the state of Texas, and therefore outside the rule of the Constitution, regardless of any “fuzzy animal” exception granted to enterprises such as Chuck E. Game rooms proliferating in Texas have been dealt a blow to the “fuzzy animal” legal loophole allowing the businesses to profit off of casino-style play on “8-liner” gaming machines.
