Luckily, the state of New South Wales legalized poker machines in the same year and the company’s fortunes sky-rocketed. The company changed the face of the Australian gambling industry when it released the first multi-line, scattered payout poker machine named as “The Clubman”, in the year 1956.
This prompted him to start making new poker machines that were nothing like the existing ones produced by other companies. After the ban on gambling in the U.S in 1951, Ainsworth realized that the Australian gambling market was vastly untapped. An engineer from the company later realized that the machines could be easily converted into poker machines, which were much more lucrative. Those days, the company produced only floor model-type equipment. The latter company was founded by his father. Aristocrat Leisure Limited was founded by Leonard Ainsworth in 1933 and was originally known as Ainsworth Consolidated Industries.
