CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Most West Virginia Lottery retailers have complied with a coin-pusher machine ban, despite initial “grumblings,” reports The Charleston Gazette.

In June, Lottery Director John Musgrave ordered all state lottery retailers to remove the machines by July 1 or face revocation of their lottery licensees and possible criminal charges. According to Musgrave, early reports indicate that most lottery retailers have complied with the ban.

Earlier this year Musgrave sent a letter to retailers advising that the machines fall under a state ban on non-lottery gaming machines. The coin-pusher machines, “where players drop in quarters in hopes of knocking coins, tokens or other prizes off of rotating shelves,” are found in convenience stores, bars and clubs throughout the state.

According to Lottery General Counsel John Melton, complaints about children playing the coin-pusher machines prompted the statewide ban.

“The thing that mattered to the lottery the most was not the competition, but the children playing the machines,” Melton told the newspaper.