With technology advancing so rapidly in the past few years, Ian Donegan takes a look at where the venerated pusher stands amid all the upheaval.
In the UK, pushers are as synonymous with the seaside as ice creams and the smell of sunscreen.
They are available in other parts of the world but this seems to be their spiritual and emotional home. The battle-hardened amusement was ostensibly brought to life by Albert Crompton - though this is not gospel - in 1960 in Kent. He built several machines with moving decks that deposited money into a payment cup. Penny Falls was one of the earliest and most famous pushers, receiving its name for the large pennies the UK called currency before adopting the decimal system. Although the pusher has evolved considerably since the Penny Falls, it remains essentially the same game.
