Midnight Marauders

Midnight Marauders, released by Bally Midway in 1984, is not actually a pinball machine - it is a coin-operated gun game with an outer-space, science-fiction theme. Players engage mechanically-operated targets and track their score on a digital display rather than playing on a traditional flipper-equipped playfield.

Technically, Midnight Marauders is notable for its 'Infrasense' board, built around a Motorola 68701 microprocessor with onboard EPROM. That same chip had earlier been used on prototype versions of Bally's 1981 'Eight Ball Deluxe' and Bally's 1981 'Flash Gordon,' linking the game's electronics to those better-known pinball titles even though Midnight Marauders itself belongs to a different category of amusement device.

Beyond its technical lineage, little else is documented about Midnight Marauders - no designer is credited in the available records, and specifics of its target layout and rules are sparse, leaving it a lesser-known curiosity from Bally Midway's 1984 catalog.