1973 · Sega Enterprises
Ali Baba
Bright cyan-blue sky, green palm foliage band beneath the title, small painted desert encampment vignette with yellow tent and red canopies, white dome / magic-lamp form at upper right and dark cabinet trim framing the left and right edges.
- Year
- 1973
- Maker
- Sega Enterprises
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 2
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- yellow
- green
- black
Fingerprint: ali baba: huge yellow ALI BABA title arcing across bright blue sky above green palm trees, two separate rows five white score-reel digits set in black windows straight middle, enormous painted woman lower half with vivid blue veil flooding entire bottom in flat cyan, small desert-camp vignette yellow red green left
The huge yellow ALI BABA title arcing across a bright blue sky above green palm trees, with two separate rows of five white score-reel digits set in black windows straight down the middle. The other memorable element is the enormous painted woman in the lower half with a vivid blue veil that floods the entire bottom of the panel in flat cyan. A small painted desert-camp vignette in yellow, red and green sits to her left, and a white-domed magic-lamp shape sits top right.
Setting
- Bright cyan-blue sky
- Green palm foliage band beneath the title
- Small painted desert encampment vignette with yellow tent and red canopies
- White dome / magic-lamp form at upper right
- Dark cabinet trim framing the left and right edges
Symbols
- Palm trees
- Desert tent and canopy shapes
- Camel
- Score reels
- Small glowing lamp or magic lamp
- White domed structure
Lettering
- Very large bold yellow sans-serif capitals with dark outline, in a single line at the top, no drop shadow; smaller plain yellow caption lettering in a thin strip under the lower reel window
Themes
- Storybook arabian nights
- Middle eastern bazaar and desert
- Magic lamp genie
- Adventure serial
- Cartoon illustration
Title on it
- Ali baba
Text on it
- ALI BABA
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Large painted female face and shoulders in the lower centre-right; pale skin, dark heavily-lined eyes, full red lips, curly auburn hair, wearing an enormous bright blue draped headscarf/veil that spreads across the whole bottom of the panel; facing forward, looking out at the viewer |
| Other | Tiny dark camel-like quadruped silhouette standing amid the yellow-and-red encampment vignette at centre-left |
| Other | Small indistinct robed figures in red, blue and white around the encampment vignette and near the white dome at upper right; too small to resolve in detail |
Photographed backglass score panel with a bright cyan-blue sky and a Middle-Eastern storybook scene. Across the top, in huge yellow block capitals with a dark outline, is the title ALI BABA, set on a band of green palm foliage. Below it is a black windowed band holding a row of five white score-reel digits; a second identical row of five reels sits lower down with a thin strip of small yellow lettering beneath. A large painted woman dominates the lower centre-right: pale skin, dark heavily-lined eyes, full red lips, curly auburn hair, and an enormous bright blue draped headscarf spreading across the whole bottom of the panel. To her left, a smaller vignette in yellow, orange, green and red suggests a tented desert encampment with figures and a dark camel-like shape. Upper right, a white dome-like form with a small figure and a bright blue rectangle suggests a magic lamp. The photo is low resolution and soft-focused, with dark cabinet trim at the edges.