Description
Nip-It
Bally releases Nip-It in 1973 as an electro-mechanical pinball machine featuring a unique ball-grabbing “Gator Grabber” and fun swamp theme artwork.
The following is from the International Pinball Database:
| 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) ![[?]](https://www.ipdb.org/graphic/question.gif) |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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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