That "Fonz" game is a Bally "Nip-It" - and absolute ripper of a machine. It has "zipper flippers" and the ball capture under the crocodile. Unfortunately, these ball capture assemblies developed problems on route, and were often removed. I might even have an assembly in storage, as we owned 2 "Nip It"s, and I WISH we still had one !
Never heard of the ball capture in this title? I'll have to do and search and learn more about this feature.
Peter
Straight from the IPDB
"A ball-grabbing device in the upper right playfield, called a 'Balligator', is activated by a 'Gator' button, located next to the right flipper button, to pull the ball into a special high-scoring lane. As the flyer illustrates, the game was initially produced using a molded alligator to jump out from under the swamp reeds to capture a nearby ball. However, the plastic alligator kept breaking on location, so this design was changed early in production to instead use a bare metal bar to grab the ball, while the swamp reeds lane plastic was redesigned to show the alligator. Only a minority of games produced have the original Balligator design."
A VERY sought after Bally. I remember playing it when I was younger, and I WISH we kept it.
