(Topic ID: 190062)
Kolding
Leduc, AB
Quoted from Darcy:The 4 player score reel arrangement is identical to a Segasa Cannes/Monaco.
The backbox looks to be placed upside down on the picture. Can we narrow it down to be a Segasa machine (never heard of Segasa )?
Quoted from Christian_Skov:Can we narrow it down to be a Segasa machine (never heard of Segasa )?
Not by going with that cabinet art. Segasa was a Spanish manufacturer. Just that the score reels were 1 on the top left the other 3 ascending on the right, with Replay Reel in the centre.
Some late 1970's Williams EM pins used that same score reel layout.
Quoted from mgpasman:Background story?
I have taken a picture of a newspaper article. The story of the article, which is from 1986, is about my parents newly build house, which was totally damage because of a fire, caused by electrical failure. Back then I was 2 years old.
28 years later I got interested in pinball machines and bought my first one. This was without knowing that we have had a pinball machine in our home. Not long ago my mother showed me the article, which showed the pinball machine that we owned back then. And now I want to find out what machine it was, and maybe one day buy one if I get the opportunity.
Boothwyn, PA
The bell in the upper left corner of the headbox is reminiscent of a four player Bally. Hard to tell though.
I'm wondering if the game was salvaged. Based on the blurry photo, it didn't look very bad considering. I think these folks had their priorities straight. Save the pinball machine first!
Awesome guys! Thought I would be a hard challenge... The machine looks very interesting...
Quoted from fumbleflippers:It's a Bally Gator
Wow, great spotted! Thanks
Quoted from pinwiztom:OR maybe since the game is from Europe
it might be a Bally Alligator (German version of Gator)
http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=59&picno=25046
Great info, will try and ask if they remember if it was a US or EU version.
Not only Sheba (2P) but Campus Queen (4P) also had similar Playfield layout.
Another difference is that Gator (Alligator) has zipper Flippers.
Skov
Ask your mother if she remembers if the written text (instructions)
on the Playfield and Backglass was in German,
then that would make it an Alligator
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