yes great game along with 4 million bc and Fireball I have had all three for like almost 35 years

Played it at the Allentown show and enjoyed it..

That looks really clean. Never played one but it looks like a keeper. Nice.......

Been looking for one to play for awhile now, seems like a great pin and I may want to own one.

Not a sleeper at all. Not easy to find, and decent ones demand a good amount of cash

The Fonz and the rest of the gang dig it. So much so they went 15 years into the future to get one.
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Nip-it is awesome. Multiball, zipper flippers and a player controlled toy. For points focus on getting it through the gate on the left, it's essentially 3k, 1k for it, then it sends it to gator for 1k, then bonus. Yours is in outstanding shape, nice find.

If you like nip-it, find a capersville. It's even better. 4 mil b.c. and fireball of course round out the great EM multiballs.

I guess this guy helped make it happen for the Fonz and the gang.

Ken

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Gotta mention the perspective on the backglass art though. MC Escher has nothin' on this.

I invite you to study the positions in the water of the squirting fish and fishing line (wrapped around the gator's tail) in relation to the two guys they are interacting with. Great game, but this bg art hurts my brain a little more each time I see it.

20140821_190806.jpg great game ,took this one out of storage cabinet was in pieces ! Termites ate the back n bottom. Fireball & 4 mil were under garbage in a house in SF, there were rats everywhere ! All restored and played regularly .Funny thing is they all have beautiful playfields and backglasses.love the Ballys by far the best artwork you will ever see

Nip-It was my first pinball machine to own.
Had it for 20 something years.
Problem with it is after you get the flippers closed you can just keep putting the ball in the left gate, let it autofire to the gator grabber, catch it with the flipper and repeat forever.
We could roll the score multiple times per game just doing that one strategy.
But it is a gorgeous game.

Its a great game that was designed in 1972 and put into production in July of 1973. Most of the EM love on pinside is for Gottlieb Wedgeheads and Gottlieb machines in general. It is refreshing to see some love for Bally. One of these days I plan to own a Nip-It and a 4 Million BC to go along with my Fireball.

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Nip It is one of the greatests em with zippers
I might like it even more than fireball
not easy to find, not cheap either, but i kinda like everything in it
2 ball multi is enough, 3ball on fireball never lasts due to the spinning disc and you cant keep track of the balls

I dunno, grabing the ball in the gator always gives that wow factor for me

plus you got the pun: Bally...gator.

watelse dya want eh ?

Maybe it's just me, but I've never seen multi ball as that big a deal.

To me, pinball is about controlling the ball and making shots. In multiball, you're just flipping at balls as they come down to the flippers. It takes away from a game, at least to me, rather than adding to it.

But it must just be me, since it seems that if a modern game doesn't have it, it would be considered a dud.

Now I might have to pull mine from storage, it is a fun game, but unfortunately mine does not have the Ball-o-gator feature, that was an option.
If anyone has one to sell, (the Ball-o-gator) please PM me.

Thanks,
Walt

Fun game. I have on that is currently in storage. Maybe I'll set it up again this winter when I get a chance.

The auctioneer calls it the first multiball machine...lol

Really?
I think you may be mistaken, or you are confusing the prototype Balligator system
and the production Bally gator grabber.

http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1680&picno=52845

If yours truly does not have a apparatus to "grab" the ball,
then take photos and send to ipdb.org

Never really fell in love with Nip-it.
I like the colorful cartoony artwork
but game play left me wanting more.

My first pin (owned) was Nip-It. I loved that game!

Brad

I am definitely not mistaken, my machine doesn't have the hole for the 3rd flipper button drilled either.

As far as I know all the production games had the balligator. I could be mistaken or It may be a prototype game. Or even better it could be the one they used in happy days, and they left it out to save cost when they donated it to the show!

I'll have to take a pic or two and post them. I've had the machine for aprox 15 years and have always hoped to find one to add, but never did.

its a great game

and i've always thought zipper flippers were pretty cool

My first machine, I think I was 6yo. I had a blast with it and changed my life forever I guess?

I bought and restored one not too long back... it's an interesting game. Multi-ball feature is very cool, and despite other comments, you can control it somewhat - especially the back flip shot when the flips are closed; leads to some very interesting games. Not a big fan of the art, and if I had to pick, I'd without a doubt pick 4Million BC over Nip It and Fireball multiball games - if picking purely on a "game-play" basis.

So instead of any type of gator grabber,
is that area just open for the ball to naturally karom into the side alley by chance.
Never seen one of those before.
Definitely takes pics of the missing grabber button
and what that right alley looks like
with the plastic mold covering in place and removed,
and post here and send to ipdg.org.