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<blockquote data-quote="Crawley" data-source="post: 208390" data-attributes="member: 2300"><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020955.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020955.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>So in the back room you had these 3 stand-up pinball machines (there's a 4th one to the left of Baby Pac but doesn't quite count as pinball). Last Year Granny and the Gators was down so didn't get to play that one till this year.</p><p></p><p>In the video screen portion of the game you control a guy in a canoe going down a jungle river. You avoid/kill aligators, watch out for cannibals shooting blow darts, and try and pick up bags of gold along the way. Every once in awhile you'll see off to the side of the river a little inlet that says "To pinball table". If you go in there then you start playing the pin portion of the game.</p><p></p><p>Like Baby Pac Man the pin portion of the game is pretty basic. So not a whole lot to do there. And its slow ball play so I spent forever in there not really sure what the purpose was.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020957.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020957.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>You can see the Granny controller here. You have to alternate pressing the left/right paddle buttons to move your canoe down the river. There's two flipper buttons on either side of the cabinet you use for the pin portion. No idea what the Fire or Power buttons were for.</p><p></p><p>It was a neat to play but with the simplistic arcade and pin portion it didn't hold my interest.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020975.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020975.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Here's the bottom half of Williams' Time Warp. The game uses the banana flippers. They definitely take a bit of getting used to. I never got to a point where I felt I was making accurate shots.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020976.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020976.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>But you could hold the ball like this, have it roll down the little scoop portion of the flipper and fling it up pretty good. </p><p></p><p>It didn't quite go where I expected it to go (damn physics) but was neat to play with these style flippers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crawley, post: 208390, member: 2300"] [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020955.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020955.jpg[/IMG][/URL] So in the back room you had these 3 stand-up pinball machines (there's a 4th one to the left of Baby Pac but doesn't quite count as pinball). Last Year Granny and the Gators was down so didn't get to play that one till this year. In the video screen portion of the game you control a guy in a canoe going down a jungle river. You avoid/kill aligators, watch out for cannibals shooting blow darts, and try and pick up bags of gold along the way. Every once in awhile you'll see off to the side of the river a little inlet that says "To pinball table". If you go in there then you start playing the pin portion of the game. Like Baby Pac Man the pin portion of the game is pretty basic. So not a whole lot to do there. And its slow ball play so I spent forever in there not really sure what the purpose was. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020957.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020957.jpg[/IMG][/URL] You can see the Granny controller here. You have to alternate pressing the left/right paddle buttons to move your canoe down the river. There's two flipper buttons on either side of the cabinet you use for the pin portion. No idea what the Fire or Power buttons were for. It was a neat to play but with the simplistic arcade and pin portion it didn't hold my interest. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020975.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020975.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Here's the bottom half of Williams' Time Warp. The game uses the banana flippers. They definitely take a bit of getting used to. I never got to a point where I felt I was making accurate shots. [URL=http://s19.photobucket.com/user/Grugle/media/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020976.jpg.html][IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b151/Grugle/Vintage%20Flipper%20World/Vintage%20Flipper%20World%202015/P1020976.jpg[/IMG][/URL] But you could hold the ball like this, have it roll down the little scoop portion of the flipper and fling it up pretty good. It didn't quite go where I expected it to go (damn physics) but was neat to play with these style flippers. [/QUOTE]
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