Did early pachinko have automatic payout slots giving actual cash for wins and in turn required coins to operate?

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Anyone who reads a bit into the history of pinball would know that pinball was banned across the US for its association with gambling. Not just that but early pinball even lacked flippers and relied on a plunger which often gets manipulated by the table design often to be based heavily on luck just like modern pachinko...... That similar to current pachinko, pinball did multiple things to avoid breaking gambling laws such as winning prizes ofr high scores or gettiing a coupon to give to another location in exchange for cash or colleciting chips or tokens or other objects that fall out of the machine for cash and so much more and of course just like current pachinko, a mix of all the the above (win chips,give it to store vendor to win prize,sell prize at another store or get a coupon for store vendor and then you go to another location to redeem it,etc). So it shouldn't surprise anyone that the mob and Italian mafia and other organized crime were involved in the pinball industry as a whole just like how pachinko still has ties to Yakuza and other professional criminal underworld. That said..........

TIL that early pinball machines had compartments that actually directly gave you cash. Be it a special drawer you opened to pull out your winnings or just like modern pachinko's dropping out balls from a slot, coins would roll out and you had to get as a bin to collect them if you're winning consistently and rapidly as they fall and so much other methods, early pinball cabints was as direct as it was giving you winnings ASAP. So it makes me wonder, were early pachinko cabinets the same, giving you yen for your winnings on the spot witha special drawer comaprtment or slots shooting out coins to collect in a bucket or something you place underneath or some other method?

Of course pinball both back then during the gamgling days and today accepts coin payments as the prime method of transactional exchant. So I also wonder if the earliest pachinko also accepted yen coins to start the machine rather than just inserting balls into a slot as the method of starting a cabinet into operation? Since the same ball you insert into a modern pachinko machines is literally the same ball you use to play the game and try to win more of from hitting the jackpot for exchange at the parlor'rs vendor? I'd assume so since a lot of the early pinball machines during the gambling days also literally use the coin you inserted as the object you play with in the game in order to hit the jackpot holes in hope of earning more of the same kind of coins for the kind of pinball that gives you cash payout back directly?
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