Banana Flipper

[dendoc]

I had a weird recollection of  a game with "banana-shaped" flippers. Can anyone remember which this was? I recall it was much harder to aim at things, and gladly, they seemed to not make any further appearances.

Any other games have flipper variations? (apart from mythical ruby slippers)

[justwedgeheads]

I think williams Disco fever had banana flippers

[ghali]

Williams Time Warp perhaps?  I think it was released with both types of flippers

[pinballheaven]

I have Time Warp with banana flippers and Disco fever was the other machine released with them although many operators replaced the banana type for normal flippers. Maybe Nino or someone else can eloborate as to why?

[pinnies4me]

I also have a Time Warp with "Banana" flippers. That's the way I played it back in the arcade days, so I have left them that way - I did try out the game with "normal" flippers but it wasn't as fun IMO.

Just this game and Disco Fever had them.

Here's the text of an email by The King Steve Ritchie with his recollections of the background to them -

http://www.zaccaria-pinball.com/misc/banana.txt

[dendoc]

Thanks for that link. Very interesting. Amazing the resourses people have on this forum. Hopefully the banana flippers will not make a return

[pinball god]

I think time warp would have been way too easy to play and win games on with standard flippers. The bananas made it a challenge although I hated the game for them. But upon reflection it did need this style

[GORGAR 1]

Love the banana flippers get the timing right and the ball fly's around the PF.

Peter