Love tester machine

A Love Meter (left) beside a strength tester machine at a Framingham, Massachusetts rest stop

A vintage Love Tester machine at Musée Mécanique

An electronic fortune teller and love tester manufactured in the mid-1990s

A love tester machine (also called love meter or love teller) is a type of amusement personality tester machine, which upon receiving credit tries to rate the subject's sex appeal, love abilities or romantic feelings for someone. Many love testers measure the moisture on the skin surface of the subject's hands by electrically testing the skin conductance and rates them accordingly. Others measure the temperature of the skin. However some machines just use a random generator. Love meters could be found in penny arcades, and can be seen in modern video arcades, amusement parks, in bars and restaurants. Such vending machines are for amusement purposes only and do not actually give a real result.^[1] Nintendo, in their early years, once created a Love Tester.

In media

In "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase", an episode of the animated TV series The Simpsons, Moe Szyslak receives dating advice from Abraham Simpson, whose ghost is possessing a love testing machine. The love tester also appears in Moe's Tavern in few other episodes.
In "3rd Rock from the Sun" Tommy restores an old love testing machine at the bar where Harry works.
American Restoration features a restoration of an early twentieth century love tester machine in the 49th episode "King of Signs".
In an episode of Bob's Burgers, titled My Fuzzy Valentine, Bob tries to find the love tester machine that he and Linda supposedly used on one of their dates.

Digital versions

Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection includes a simulation of a real world love meter. Similar games can also be found on the Internet or as software applications. Software love testers are based on randomness, on various user inputs or on a questionnaire and an algorithm. Only serious surveys and analyses can thereby aim to give a real result.

Gallery

The Musée Mécanique in San Francisco has a collection of over 300 mechanical games including love testers.^[2]

Notes

↑ Ricardo, David (August 18, 2012). "Love Meter Impulse Vending Machine • Perfect Vending". perfectvending.net. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
↑ "Musée Mécanique". San Francisco. Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 21 September 2012.

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Gottlieb	Big Shot Black Hole Central Park Class of 1812 Cue Ball Wizard El Dorado City of Gold Frank Thomas' Big Hurt Genie Goin' Nuts Haunted House Lights...Camera...Action! Rescue 911 Tee'd Off TX-Sector Victory

Bally	The Addams Family Special Collector's Gold Edition Attack from Mars Black Rose Cactus Canyon The Champion Pub Centaur Cirqus Voltaire Creature from the Black Lagoon Doctor Who REGENERATED Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray Eight Ball Deluxe Elvira and the Party Monsters Fireball Indianapolis 500 Judge Dredd The Party Zone Safe Cracker Scared Stiff Theatre of Magic Twilight Zone WHO Dunnit Xenon

Williams	Black Knight Black Knight 2000 Bram Stoker's Dracula Cyclone Diner Earthshaker! F-14 Tomcat Firepower Fish Tales FunHouse The Getaway: High Speed II Gorgar High Speed Hurricane Jack-Bot Junk Yard The Machine: Bride of Pin-Bot Medieval Madness Monster Bash No Fear: Dangerous Sports No Good Gofers Pin-Bot Red & Ted's Road Show Space Shuttle Star Trek: The Next Generation Tales of the Arabian Nights Taxi Terminator 2: Judgment Day Whirlwind White Water

Stern/Sega/Data East	Flight 2000 Harley-Davidson, 3rd Edition High Roller Casino Last Action Hero Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Phantom of the Opera Ripley's Believe It or Not! Starship Troopers

Pinball Hall of Fame

The Gottlieb Collection	Ace High Big Shot Black Hole Central Park El Dorado City of Gold Genie Goin' Nuts Love Meter (love tester machine) Play-Boy Strikes n' Spares Tee'd Off Victory Xolten (fortune teller machine)

The Williams Collection	Black Knight Firepower FunHouse Gorgar Jive Time Medieval Madness No Good Gofers Pin-Bot Sorcerer Space Shuttle Tales of the Arabian Nights Taxi Whirlwind

Stern Pinball Arcade

Stern/Sega/Data East	AC/DC Harley-Davidson, 3rd Edition High Roller Casino Last Action Hero Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Mustang Phantom of the Opera Ripley's Believe It or Not! Starship Troopers Star Trek

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