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Fred Collins
3 Callahan Ave.
Greenville SC
1962
We believe this was used in an illegal in 1962 but can find no proof.
Video game slot route operator in SC.
Collins is the sole owner of Collins Entertainment, Inc, a conglomerate that owns and operates video games.
In recent years, Collins was most often in the news as he fought and won a series of high-profile legal battles against slot machine giant International Gaming Technology. Collins said IGT promised him an exclusive distributorship to sell its slots in South Carolina, then reneged. A series of juries agreed, and as of Feb. 2004, IGT owed Collins $20 million in damages.
His confrontation with IGT was the climax of a decades-long litigation career that earned him the nickname “Courthouse Collins.”