1984 Bally GRANNY AND THE GATORS pinball & video arcade machine

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:
www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1083

[@hardrockincanuck1]

I remember playing this in a small town arcade in Sask back in 1984 or '85 as an 11 year old. It was such a hard game. Amazing job - you were so close to clearing that last gate. Many fond memories of Waxy's Wheel in Wolseley, SK as a kid. This game being one of them.

[@Omegajunior2658]

Wow I've never seen any hybrid video game arcades like that before in my entire life. It sure looks fun. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@londonpinball]

Thanks for watching!

[@Omegajunior2658]

@@londonpinball You are very welcome

[@jeffkaczmarek3577]

Sweet. I own a Baby Pac and always wanted to give Granny a try but the only place I know that has one is non-working and the owner has no plans of fixing it soon. Thank you for the video.

[@mikesabin8568]

Never suggested to the owner a price to buy it at? Got mine for 4k