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Average Fun Rating: | 7.6/10 (28 ratings/24 comments) [ Add Your Rating! ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturer: | Bally Manufacturing Corporation (1931-1983) [Trade Name: Bally] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project Date: | February 08, 1972 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Of Manufacture: | July, 1973 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Model Number: | 940 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type: | Electro-mechanical (EM) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production: | 4,580 units (confirmed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Serial Number Database: | View at The Internet Pinball Serial Number Database (IPSND.net) (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Theme: | Sports - Fishing - Alligators - Water | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Specialty: | Zipper Flippers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable Features: | Zipper flippers (2), Pop bumpers (4), Mushroom bumper (1), Slingshots (2), Standup targets (4), Kick-out holes (2), Multiball (2), Left kicker lane, Right outlane ball return gate. End-of-ball bonus. Maximum displayed point score is 99,990 points per player. Tilt penalty: game over, per player. Replay wheel maximum: 25 A ball-grabbing device in the upper right playfield, called a 'Balligator', is activated by a 'Gator' button, located next to the right flipper button, to pull the ball into a special high-scoring lane. As the flyer illustrates, the game was initially produced using a molded alligator to jump out from under the swamp reeds to capture a nearby ball. However, the plastic alligator kept breaking on location, so this design was changed early in production to instead use a bare metal bar to grab the ball, while the swamp reeds lane plastic was redesigned to show the alligator. Only a minority of games produced have the original Balligator design. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Design by: | Ted Zale | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Art by: | Dick White | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes: | 'Nip-It' was the last electro-mechanical game to feature zipper flippers. Bally used it once more, in a solid-state game, in Bally's 1981 'Medusa'. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pinball Trader pp. Volume 2 Issue 5 Pinball! (Sharpe) page 80 Pinball Machines (Eiden-Lukas), page 69 Pinball Art, page 74-75 Pinball 1 Illustrated Historical Guide to Pinball Machines Volume 1, page 238 Arcade Treasures, page 84 The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981, page 48 Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book G-R Pinball Snapshots, page 182 Pinball Perspectives, pages 9, 163-167 The Pinball Compendium Electro-mechanical Era, page 196 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owners List URL: | http://www.pinballowners.com/owners/1680 (External site) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Documentation: | 636 KB | Playfield Chart from 1976 Parts Catalog | [Bally Manufacturing Corp.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 MB | Schematic Diagram (continuous, dated 7-2-73) | [Bally Manufacturing Corp.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 MB | Schematic Diagram (in two halves, dated 10-10-72) | [Bally Manufacturing Corp.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Files: | 5 MB | Installation And General Game Operation Instructions | [Bally Manufacturing Corp.] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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