4 Square / Astro

A 1950s electro-mechanical pinball playfield photographed head-on, showing a wood playfield, chrome ball guides and a full apron. The field is pale blue-grey with a warm orange/tan apron and bright red, yellow and orange plastics. Symmetrical layout: at the top two round pop-bumper caps printed with a large red '10', flanked by orange-yellow art panels and small red-and-green mushroom caps; a central round cap reads '100'. Down the middle sits a cream instruction card and three stacked horizontal banks of four numbered drop targets (1-2-3-4 in coloured rings), flanked by yellow cards reading '200 POINTS WHEN COMPLETED' and green '200 BONUS POINTS WHEN COMPLETED'. Below sit two large orange, red and yellow fan/sunburst triangles over red star shapes, '50 POINTS' numerals in the slingshot lanes, and two white flippers with blue 'FLIPPER' lettering. The apron prints a large red 'FLIPPER BUTTONS' banner with blue arrows, a ball-in-play window, an instructions box of bonus rules, a replay box, and a blue script company signature with '165 W. LAKE ST.' and 'NORTH AVE. ILLINOIS U.S.A.' Playfield wear is heavy: wood is scuffed and darkened, plastics are yellowed, metal is tarnished.

A square, cream-framed backglass with a deep rounded-rectangle window showing a dense, brightly coloured pop-art collage on a dark purple-black background. Dominating the upper centre-right is a large tilted yellow sign reading a big red '4' above the word 'SQUARE' in tall red slab capitals outlined white; the script logo 'Gottlieb's' in red cursive with white outline sits just above it. At upper left a white rectangular panel holds four black score windows. Below and left of the sign are three large painted number cubes, each showing a numeral 4 on a different face. The centre foreground is dominated by a large pop-art head of a dark-haired man with a broad white grin and heavy purple shadowing, and behind him a larger platinum-blonde woman's head resting her cheek on her hand, in orange skin tones. Smaller vignettes surround them: a yellow-clad guitarist, a dancing couple, a blonde woman in a short yellow dress on a box at left, three faces at bottom left, a robot and floating dice at right. Colours: magenta/purple, yellow, orange-red, black.

A tall rectangular illustrated pinball backglass on a black starfield background. Upper left carries a small cream cursive word reading Gottlieb's, and below it the huge title ASTRO in slanted yellow-to-orange block capitals with heavy red inline striping and a dark outline, the word climbing diagonally so the final O sits higher than the A. Upper right is a yellow multi-window score reel panel reading 0 5 7 6 0, above a red-and-yellow starburst with a white-ringed red centre. The centre-right is dominated by a large bust of a smiling woman in a red space helmet with a gold crest and dark visor rim, blue-black hair showing at the sides, her face in three-quarter view looking up-left. At the left is a second, smaller blonde woman in a red top and red helmet, one arm raised with palm open. Below her sits a small figure in a red helmet and green suit reclining on a green planet surface beside a large ringed planet rendered in green and orange bands. A yellow ringed planet on a stand sits near the top centre with two white stars below it. The bottom band shows a row of red, white and green triangular rocket fin shapes like a border. Colours: black, yellow, red, green. Style is flat, brightly coloured commercial cartoon illustration with thick black outlines.

Illustrated space-adventure backglass, painted in a bright 1970s airbrushed cartoon style. The lower half is dominated by two figures: on the right a smiling woman with fair skin, arched dark brows, heavy blue-green eye shadow and bright red lipstick, her head framed by a large round yellow helmet ring with a purple-and-yellow striped crest sweeping back; on the left a lumpy red-green monster with two googly eyes on stalks, a wide open mouth and a riveted collar. Between them a broad yellow beam of light cuts diagonally up from a ringed planet, containing small flying figures. The background is deep blue space with a spiral galaxy top centre, white four-pointed stars, a ringed planet upper right and a pink-and-yellow atom/starburst emblem in the top-right corner. Across the bottom runs a huge gold-and-orange outlined block-letter title on a starry black band, with a white cursive 'Gottlieb' signature above it. Top right carries a white rectangular score window reading PREVIOUS HI SCORE with mechanical reel digits, and there is a strong white reflection across the upper centre of the glass.