Known for
- standups
AMMO
- Drop target
POWER
- Target
EXIT
- saucer
Feature saucer
- hoop
Top-right hoop
- phase
Video Phase
On the playfield
Toy 1
- Top-right hoop hoop
Hole 1
- Feature saucer saucer
Drop target 1
- POWER
Targets 2
- AMMO standups
- EXIT
Lane 1
- Center rollovers rollovers
Control 1
- Fire buttons buttons
On the backglass
Who and what
- woman Elderly white woman, white hair, pale blue wide-brimmed hat, glasses, pale blouse, bead necklace, scowling, aiming a long double-barrelled shotgun leftwards; inside the upper-right medallion
- animal Green alligator standing upright behind the woman in the medallion
- creature Coiled green snake with pale yellow underside, head raised, in the medallion
- animal Brightly coloured parrot or macaw with red head, blue and green wings, yellow-orange breast, perched on the instruction card at bottom left
Setting
- Black void overlaid with turquoise palm fronds
- Yellow circular medallion with rope border
- Pale grey central display panel
Text on it
- GRANNY
- and the Gators
- TM
- REACH VIBRATION TO COLLECT BONUS
- 25
- 50
- 200
- 500
- 5000
How it plays
-
Modes 2
- Video Phase phase
- Pinball Phase phase
-
Goals 3
- Power Paddle
- Extra Canoe
- Shots resource
Made by
- Design
- Claude Fernandez
- Art
- Pat McMahon
- Art
- Margaret Hudson
The cast
- Granny
- Gators
- Spear-thrower
Reference
Linked terms
- AMMO also called AMMO standups
- POWER also called POWER drops
- EXIT also called EXIT targets
- Feature saucer also called saucer
- Top-right hoop also called Extra Canoe hoop
- Center rollovers also called Extra Canoe rollovers also called center buttons
- Pinball Phase also called pinball detour
- Gators also called green gators
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- green
- yellow
- red
- black
Fingerprint: Tropical island canoe: Towering red canoe-shaped centre ramp studded with nine round turquoise-green glowing inserts stacked like lily pads, shield beneath painted with dollar signs and 200, enormous dark-green palm fronds closing in from sides, two enormous grinning tiki-style carved mask faces with thick red lips at lower corners, comic-strip white caption block upper left reading CARNIVAL, hand-painted cartoon style, jungle leisure
The single most memorable feature is the towering red canoe-shaped centre ramp studded with nine round inserts glowing turquoise-green like a stack of glowing lily pads, sitting over a shield painted with dollar signs and the number 200. Second is the framing jungle: enormous dark-green palm fronds that close in from both sides, punctuated by two enormous grinning tiki-style carved mask faces with thick red lips at the lower left and lower right corners. Third, the comic-strip style white caption block stamped into the artwork at the upper left, COMPLETING CARNIVAL / QUALIFIES SAN DIEGO FOR ... CARNIVAL, which makes the artwork look like a panel from a 1950s adventure comic. Fourth, the little bathing figure sitting in a tin tub of suds at mid-left, and the rope-hung lantern and plank jetty across the top.
Setting
- Tropical island with palm trees and jungle foliage
- Wooden dock or jetty with red-brown planks and posts
- Red-roofed palm-thatched hut
- Open blue water at the left with white foam and surf
- Dark cave or night shadow across the upper right
Symbols
- Dollar signs
- Starburst inserts
- Palm fronds
- Tiki masks
- Arrow / chevron insert pattern
- Numbers 200 and 100
- Rope and lanterns
- Sailboat canoes
Notable shapes
- Tall red canoe-shaped centre ramp with nine round green inserts
- Cream shield printed with dollar signs beneath the centre ramp
- Twin triangular slingshots either side of the drain
- Cluster of white starburst inserts scattered mid-field
- Two giant grinning tiki mask faces in the lower corners
Art motifs
- Comic-strip caption box
- Halftone-free flat colour blocking
- Heavy black keyline outlines
- Explosion starbursts
- Sparkle highlights on metal ramps
Themes
- Tropical island
- Jungle
- Adventure comic
- Sunshine
- Beach
- Money
- Bonus
Text on it
- COMPLETING CARNIVAL
- QUALIFIES SAN DIEGO FOR
- CARNIVAL
- TILT
- 5 SHOTS
- 200 UP
- 100
- $
- WHEN FLASHING
- LEFT PADDLE
- RIGHT PADDLE
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Other | Large carved tiki-style mask face, red lips and orange-brown features, grinning, filling the bottom left corner |
| Other | Matching carved tiki-style mask face with red lips and orange snout, filling the bottom right corner |
| Child | Small bathing figure with dark hair sitting in a tin tub of white suds at mid-left, water spray around |
| Other | Green-skinned witch-doctor or hula figure in a headdress near the upper-left caption block, arms raised |
| Other | Two round grinning cartoon faces on the apron below the drain: one blue, one yellow, both with wide toothy smiles |
| Vehicle | Small wooden canoe and motor boat shapes in the water at the left edge |
| Other | Red-and-white striped boat prow or figurehead on the right-hand ramp with coiled rope |
A brightly coloured tropical-island pinball playfield, hand-painted in a comic cartoon style with heavy black outlines. Dense dark-green palm fronds and jungle leaves frame the whole lower half, with carved red-and-orange tiki-style mask faces with huge grinning lips in the bottom left and bottom right corners. At the top a wooden dock or jetty with red-brown planks and posts runs across, backed by a red-roofed palm-thatched hut and small canoes; a rope-hung sign and lamp posts sit over it. The centre is dominated by a tall red canoe- or shield-shaped ramp outlined in yellow, carrying nine round inserts that glow turquoise-green in a stacked chevron, set over a cream shield printed with dollar signs, the number 200 and the word UP. The metal playfield is criss-crossed by wireform ramps, a red wireform loop at the right, and yellow triangular slingshot bodies either side of a round amber kicker medallion above the centre drain. A bleached-white foam splash surrounds the left ramp, and small white starburst inserts scatter over the mid-field. Along the bottom black apron strip the words LEFT PADDLE and RIGHT PADDLE are painted, with WHEN FLASHING in yellow above a red circular target and two grinning cartoon faces, one blue and one yellow. A caption block in the upper-left reads COMPLETING CARNIVAL / QUALIFIES SAN DIEGO FOR ... CARNIVAL.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- black
- turquoise
- yellow
- orange
Fingerprint: Elderly woman in pale blue hat aiming double-barrelled shotgun, green alligator and coiled snake behind, turquoise palm fronds on black, "GRANNY and the Gators", red parrot.
An elderly woman in a wide-brimmed pale blue hat and glasses, aiming a double-barrelled shotgun, enclosed in a yellow circular medallion with a rope-twist border at the upper right of the backglass. Second most memorable is the enormous slanted yellow-orange GRANNY title with the cursive and the Gators beneath it, sitting over a field of bright turquoise palm fronds on a black background. A vivid red-headed parrot perched on a cream instruction card anchors the bottom left corner.
Setting
- Black void overlaid with turquoise palm fronds
- Yellow circular medallion with rope border
- Pale grey central display panel
Symbols
- Turquoise palm fronds
- Rope-bordered medallion
- Double-barreled shotgun
- Cream instruction card with a ladder of score values
Lettering
- Fat slanted yellow-orange sans-serif capitals for the main title, with a flowing yellow cursive script for the subtitle and a small cursive wordmark above
Themes
- Granny
- Alligators
- Swamp
- Florida
- Comedy
- Hunting
Title on it
- Granny and the gators
Text on it
- GRANNY
- and the Gators
- TM
- REACH VIBRATION TO COLLECT BONUS
- 25
- 50
- 200
- 500
- 5000
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Elderly white woman, white hair, pale blue wide-brimmed hat, glasses, pale blouse, bead necklace, scowling, aiming a long double-barrelled shotgun leftwards; inside the upper-right medallion |
| Animal | Green alligator standing upright behind the woman in the medallion |
| Creature | Coiled green snake with pale yellow underside, head raised, in the medallion |
| Animal | Brightly coloured parrot or macaw with red head, blue and green wings, yellow-orange breast, perched on the instruction card at bottom left |
A dark, near-black backglass with turquoise-blue palm fronds framing all three edges, drawn as flat outlined silhouettes curling in from the top, left, right and bottom. Across the upper left, a huge block word GRANNY in fat yellow-to-orange gradient capitals with a dark blue outline, slanted slightly upward, with the smaller yellow words and the Gators beneath it in sweeping cursive ending in a long underline flourish; a small TM sits at the lower right of the script, and a small cursive company wordmark in a yellow lozenge sits at the very top edge. Upper right is a round yellow medallion framed by a braided rope-style border, containing an elderly white woman in a pale blue wide-brimmed hat and glasses, white hair, a pale blouse and a string of beads, aiming a long double-barrelled shotgun out to the left with a determined scowl; behind her in the medallion stand a green alligator and a coiled green snake with a yellow belly. Lower left, a brightly coloured macaw-like parrot with a red head, blue and green wings and a yellow-orange breast perches on the top of a cream instruction card printed with a column of score values and a two-line message. The large central rectangular area is plain pale grey-lavender with no art.