Baby Pac-Man is a hybrid pinball-video game manufactured by Bally in 1982, representing the second licensed Pac-Man machine and a significant early attempt to merge pinball mechanics with arcade video game elements. The machine featured a small playfield with a Pac-Man video component integrated into the backglass/head area and achieved moderate commercial success with 7,000 units sold, marking one of Bally Midway's last major successes before the company's decline. Though more successful than the earlier Caveman hybrid, Baby Pac-Man became a cautionary example in pinball history, with its monitor-based design approach influencing designer concerns about future hybrid technology implementations.
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Baby Pac-Man is a rare machine in good playing condition
Pinball and arcade communities both dislike Baby Pac-Man due to its hybrid nature
Baby Pac-Man has no wizard mode or multiball
Ghosts in Baby Pac-Man behave with true randomness that cannot be manipulated like in classic Pac-Man
Referenced as later hybrid pinball-video game; Caveman noted as predating it
Modern pinball/video game hybrid; Nick Baldridge's game swapped to Steve Ridge on December 31, 2015
Billy purchased and sold; hybrid pinball/arcade; avoided CRT restoration, sold at break-even
Later hybrid pinball-video game that followed Caveman's pioneering design
1982 Gottlieb hybrid video/pinball machine; subject of this tutorial stream
Hybrid arcade/pinball game Jon considers must-have
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The record score on Baby Pac-Man with three lives is 2.7-2.8 million
Map walls become invisible starting at map 7, fully invisible at maps 10-12
The spinner on Baby Pac-Man can be 'cheesed' for consistent high scoring
Baby Pac-Man was manufactured by Bally Midway around 1980-1981
The slingshots on Baby Pac-Man don't have coils, they just bounce
You need to score 72,000+ points to get on the high score board
The high score of 236,000 on this machine was set by a technician testing/working on the game, not a legitimate player
Baby Pac-Man is notoriously unreliable and frequently breaks
The playfield is leaning/not level on this particular machine
The flippers on this machine are saggy
Spelling TUNNEL speeds up Pac-Man in the video portion of the game
Rare 1980s Bally arcade-pinball hybrid combining Pac-Man maze game (top) with pinball mechanics (bottom) for earning power pellets
Pinball/arcade hybrid; one of RetroRalph's favorite machines in collection
Hybrid arcade/pinball machine from Bally Midway (1980-1981); subject of the stream
Valley/Midway hybrid game referenced as example of early video-pinball integration; Gomez suggests it and Granny/Gators were not successes.
First successful proof-of-concept machine revived using PinMAME-HW system
Bally hybrid video/pinball game, 1982; sold 7,000 units—Bally Midway's last major success before collapse. Small playfield with Pac-Man video component in head.
Historical game with screen in backglass; referenced as cautionary example of failed pinball-video game hybrid; concerned designers about monitor-based approaches
Bally hybrid machine (1982); second hybrid using licensed Pac-Man IP; more successful than Caveman; featured in compact arcade form factor