Also known as A13
1995 · Sega
Apollo 13
Known for Rocket ramp, Blastoff ramp, Spacecraft and Holding container. Black starfield, the curved blue-and-white limb of earth upper left, orange exhaust glow behind the rocket and orange nebula clouds lower left.
- Year
- 1995
- Maker
- Sega
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Players
- 6
Known for
- Ramp
Rocket ramp
- Ramp
Blastoff ramp
- Toy
Spacecraft
- holding chamber
Holding container
- post
Center post
- saucer
Mission start saucer
- Multiball
13-ball Multiball
- Multiball
Rocket Multiball
On the playfield
Toy 1
- Spacecraft
Ramps 2
- Rocket ramp
- Blastoff ramp
Holes 3
- Holding container holding chamber
- Mission start saucer saucer
- Center saucer saucer
Targets 4
- MOON targets
- DOCK targets
- Battery targets
- Food and Water targets
Lane 1
- Spinner lane
Post or gate 1
- Center post post
Display 1
- Rocket LED
On the backglass
Who and what
- man Central astronaut, only helmet and shoulders visible: large white hard-shell helmet with side hardware, dark gold-tinted visor reflecting orange light, blue planet and a faint human reflection; white suit with a red-and-white striped collar and an american flag patch on the shoulder; grey chest-mounted box stencilled reclab; gloved hand raised at lower right.
- man Right of centre: middle-aged man with receding dark hair, clean-shaven, white pressure suit with red-striped collar ring, facing left with a serious expression.
- man Far right: younger man in a white hooded pressure suit with a red-striped neck ring and a black boom microphone at his cheek, looking left.
- man Lower left: man in a dark suit jacket, white shirt and dark tie, short hair, wearing a black headset, leaning forward over a console with his hand raised; lit warm orange from below.
- man Lower left background: a man in a white shirt seen from behind, seated at a long control desk.
- man Lower left background: a second man in a tan jacket seated at the consoles, back turned.
Setting
- Black starfield
- The curved blue-and-white limb of earth upper left
- Orange exhaust glow behind the rocket
- Orange nebula clouds lower left
Text on it
- SEGA
- APOLLO 13
- RECLAB
How it plays
-
Modes 15
- Manual Burn
- Life Support
- Under Volt
- CO2
- Docking
- Lite Extra Ball
- Moon's Gravity
- Orbiter
- Rocket 2-Ball 2-ball
- Video Mode
- Power Down
- Power Up
- Mystery
- Novice game
Hurry-ups
- Shoot the Moon
-
Multiballs 3
- 13-ball Multiball
- Rocket Multiball
- Mystery 3-Ball 3-ball
-
Goals 4
- Blastoff
- Missions
- Super 13 Jackpot
- Master Jackpot
-
Wizard modes 2
- Master Alarm
- Splashdown
Made by
- Design
- Joe Kaminkow
- Design & Mechanics
- Joe Balcer
- Art
- Jeff Busch
- Art & Display animation
- Marc Raneses
- Mechanics
- John Borg
- Mechanics
- Rob Hurtado
- Software
- Lonnie D. Ropp
- Software
- Orin Day
- Sound & Music
- Brian Schmidt
- Display animation
- Jack Liddon
- Display animation
- Kurt Andersen
Reference
Linked terms
- Rocket ramp also called Rocket Multiball ramp
- Blastoff ramp also called Moon ramp
- Holding container also called 8-ball lock device
- Mission start saucer also called right saucer also called mode start saucer
- Rocket Multiball also called Regular Multiball
- Novice game also called Novice
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- dark blue
- black
- silver
- red
Fingerprint: Large pale blue-and-white cloud-banded sphere like planet painted in lower center, bright orange and yellow plastics surrounding it, translucent blue-plastic-covered ramp climbing right-hand raised deck, two long rule cards filling lower deck with dense instruction text
The most memorable feature is the pair of large instruction cards plastered across the lower deck, one headed APOLLO 13 in big black serif capitals with MET / 13 BALL / MULTIBALL! beside it, and beside it a grey card carrying a large QR code. Second, the big pale blue-and-white planet sphere painted in the middle of the lower playfield, ringed by a printed dial. Third, the four-player wording stitched into the paint: FOUR PLAYER BOUNCES!! 1 TO 6 CAN PLAY!!! on the left of the lower deck and NEWT! 13 BALL BLASTOFF!!! on the right. Fourth, the bright orange and yellow plastics and the translucent blue ramp climbing the right-hand raised deck.
Setting
- Starfield
- Outer space
- Lunar/planetary surface artwork
Symbols
- Qr code
- Black-and-yellow hazard stripes
- Red rubber bumper rings
- Star burst
- Flame wash
- Circular dial/compass graphic
- Card-suit-like coloured inserts
Notable shapes
- Large painted planet sphere in the centre-lower playfield
- Lofted raised deck with curved blue ramp on the right
- Round cluster of pop bumpers left of centre
- Hazard-striped danger sticker
Art motifs
- Orange and yellow flame wash
- Starfield
- Chrome wire guides
- Hazard striping
Themes
- Spaceflight
- Lunar mission
- Countdown
- Multiplayer
- Multiball
- Nasa-era hardware
Title on it
- Apollo 13
Text on it
- APOLLO 13
- MET
- 13 BALL
- MULTIBALL!
- FOUR PLAYER BOUNCES!!
- 1 TO 6 CAN PLAY!!!
- NEWT!
- 13 BALL BLASTOFF!!!
- DANGER
- EXPLOSIVE
- FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY
- BEST VALUE
- 3 PLAYER GAME
- HOT BALL GETS LIT
- 1995
- LITE 'EM UP
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Other | No human figures visible; artwork is machinery, planets and starfield only in the resolved crops |
| Vehicle | A rocket/launch-vehicle motif suggested by the printed met and countdown wording and by the raised ramp structure |
A long, tall playfield of a wide-body multi-player game, photographed from above through a glass cover with red and white lamp reflections. The surface is a dark navy-to-black starfield. Lower centre sits a large pale-blue and white cloud-banded sphere like a planet, ringed by a printed circular dial graphic. The left and middle carry bright orange, yellow and red plastics: a round cluster of cap-ringed pop bumpers, a yellow ramp lip, and red rubber-ringed round bumper faces. Along the right edge a raised deck carries a translucent blue-plastic-covered ramp curving up towards the top right, with a wire-form ball return and chrome posts. Polished metal ball guides run diagonally across both halves. The lower deck is deep blue with a printed orange and yellow flame-and-starburst wash behind the flippers. Two white flipper bats with red rubber sit at bottom centre, with a further pair above them. Two long rule cards fill the bottom: a white APOLLO 13 card on the left and a grey card with a QR code on the right; a black-and-yellow DANGER EXPLOSIVE sticker sits on the lower right plastics.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- black
- white
- blue
- orange
Fingerprint: 'APOLLO 13' in cream serif capitals, giant white astronaut helmet center with dark reflective visor, two white-suited astronauts red-striped collars, striped launch rocket orange flame, mission control room, SEGA logo, scattered orange numerals, space flight scene
A giant white astronaut helmet dominates the centre, its dark visor reflecting an orange glow and a blue planet, with the photographer faintly mirrored in the glass. Two real astronauts in white suits with red-striped collars and a US flag chest patch flank it on the right, one with a receding hairline, one hooded with a boom microphone. The enormous cream serif 'APOLLO 13' stretches across a black starfield, with a striped rocket blasting upward on the left. A blue 'SEGA' block logo sits top left, and orange dot-matrix numerals float scattered around the sky. Bottom left a suited man with a headset works a bank of control consoles.
Setting
- Black starfield
- The curved blue-and-white limb of earth upper left
- Orange exhaust glow behind the rocket
- Orange nebula clouds lower left
Symbols
- American flag patch
- Stars and starfield
- Planet limb
- Exhaust flame
- Control-room consoles
- Scattered orange dot-matrix numerals
Lettering
- Very large cream/pearl serif roman capitals for the title with fine dark outline; a blue outlined blocky sans-serif logo top left
Themes
- Spaceflight
- Moon mission
- Astronauts
- Launch vehicle
- Mission control
Title on it
- Apollo 13
Text on it
- SEGA
- APOLLO 13
- RECLAB
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Central astronaut, only helmet and shoulders visible: large white hard-shell helmet with side hardware, dark gold-tinted visor reflecting orange light, blue planet and a faint human reflection; white suit with a red-and-white striped collar and an american flag patch on the shoulder; grey chest-mounted box stencilled reclab; gloved hand raised at lower right. |
| Man | Right of centre: middle-aged man with receding dark hair, clean-shaven, white pressure suit with red-striped collar ring, facing left with a serious expression. |
| Man | Far right: younger man in a white hooded pressure suit with a red-striped neck ring and a black boom microphone at his cheek, looking left. |
| Man | Lower left: man in a dark suit jacket, white shirt and dark tie, short hair, wearing a black headset, leaning forward over a console with his hand raised; lit warm orange from below. |
| Man | Lower left background: a man in a white shirt seen from behind, seated at a long control desk. |
| Man | Lower left background: a second man in a tan jacket seated at the consoles, back turned. |
| Vehicle | Upper right: blue-grey angular spacecraft module/spacecraft nose with a dark engine bell, angled down-right. |
| Other | Upper centre-right: a faceted translucent blue crystal-like object with orange lattice/gantry structure behind it. |
| Other | Left of the title: a white launch vehicle with black roll markings, climbing on an orange flame plume. |
A painted space-flight backglass in a black cabinet frame. A deep black starfield fills the background, with the blue-and-white curve of Earth sweeping down the upper left. Across the top runs a huge cream/pearl serif title, 'APOLLO 13', in tall Roman capitals with a thin dark outline; a blue blocky 'SEGA' logo with a small trademark mark sits top left, immediately right of a white-and-black striped launch rocket rising vertically on a bright orange exhaust flame. Small orange dot-matrix digit clusters (five-segment style numerals) are scattered around the sky like score readouts. Centre stage is a large white-suited astronaut helmet, visor dark and mirror-like, reflecting orange light and a blue planetary limb, with a faint reflection of the photographer visible. To the right, two men in white pressure suits with red-striped collars and an American flag patch on the chest: a receding-haired middle-aged man facing left, and a younger man on the far right in a hooded suit with a boom microphone. Lower left, a man in a dark suit, white shirt and tie with a headset leans over a bank of consoles beside two smaller figures at control desks. A grey equipment box on the astronaut's chest is stencilled 'RECLAB'. Upper right shows a blue-grey angular spacecraft module and a faceted crystal-like object.