Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Here we have another 1984 Bally Granny and the Gators pinball machine/video arcade game hybrid. Recording a traditional CRT makes the display look like poop, but I can assure you the monitor in this game looks great in person.
Anyway, this was the dark days of pinball when manufacturers were trying everything to bring the arcade-going youth back to pinball. This game incorporates both video game play and pinball play into one machine? Is it good? It's "okay" but it doesn't blow my hair back to any extent. The video game is challenging to learn (I'm bad at it) and the pinball part is fairly ho-hum and repetitive. Having said that, it's a neat novelty.
The basic goal (and I'm not entirely clear on all of the rules) is to navigate Granny's boat down the river while avoiding arrows and gators and collecting bags of cash and shotgun shells. The shells can be used to shoot the gators and savages and the cash can be used to pay the toll (?) and avoid the rapids. Stopping in at the pinball entrances starts the pinball portion of the game where the player can earn more boats and rack up points.
Granny and the Gators was designed by Claude Fernandez with art by Pat McMahon and Margaret Hudson. For more info on this game, see here:
ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1083
Here we have another 1984 Bally Granny and the Gators pinball machine/video arcade game hybrid. Recording a traditional CRT makes the display look like poop, but I can assure you the monitor in this game looks great in person.
Anyway, this was the dark days of pinball when manufacturers were trying everything to bring the arcade-going youth back to pinball. This game incorporates both video game play and pinball play into one machine? Is it good? It's "okay" but it doesn't blow my hair back to any extent. The video game is challenging to learn (I'm bad at it) and the pinball part is fairly ho-hum and repetitive. Having said that, it's a neat novelty.
The basic goal (and I'm not entirely clear on all of the rules) is to navigate Granny's boat down the river while avoiding arrows and gators and collecting bags of cash and shotgun shells. The shells can be used to shoot the gators and savages and the cash can be used to pay the toll (?) and avoid the rapids. Stopping in at the pinball entrances starts the pinball portion of the game where the player can earn more boats and rack up points.
Granny and the Gators was designed by Claude Fernandez with art by Pat McMahon and Margaret Hudson. For more info on this game, see here:
ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1083
