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Asteroid Annie and the Aliens backglass

Also known as AAA

1980 · Gottlieb

Asteroid Annie and the Aliens

Known for Left drop bank, Right drop bank, Lower right saucer and Royal Flush. Deep purple-black void and yellow horizontal band across the lower middle behind the figures.

Year
1980
Maker
Gottlieb
Type
Solid state
Display
Alphanumeric
Players
1

Known for

  • Target

    Left drop bank

  • Target

    Right drop bank

  • Hole

    Lower right saucer

  • Goal

    Royal Flush

On the playfield

  • black
  • red
  • yellow
  • green
Asteroid Annie and the Aliens playfield
Spotted in this photo
  • 2 flippers
  • 2 target banks
  • 2 slingshots

Full vision analysis

Hole 1

  • Lower right saucer

Targets 3

  • Left drop bank
  • Right drop bank
  • Upper left standup target standup target

Lane 1

  • Left semi-orbit lane

On the backglass

  • green
  • orange
  • purple
  • red
Asteroid Annie and the Aliens backglass

Full vision analysis

Who and what

  • woman Central young adult blonde woman, bare shoulders, sleeveless low-cut red dress, red round earrings, thin necklace, smiling, holding a fan of red-backed playing cards in one hand and one upright white card with a red spade in the other
  • alien Top left, green-haired fanged screaming head with metal forehead band and strings of blue beads
  • alien Large glossy green muscular torso on the left with one huge red eye and smaller side eyes
  • creature Black-eyed orange alien head on a stalk with red crest spikes, fanged open mouth, upper centre-left
  • alien Green skull with orange eye socket on a green ribbed spine, right of centre
  • alien Green beaked insect-like head with a dark eye and a segmented green limb curving over the top right

Setting

  • Deep purple-black void
  • Yellow horizontal band across the lower middle behind the figures

Text on it

  • Gottlieb's
  • ASTEROID ANNIE
  • and the
  • ALIENS
  • NUMBERS TO MATCH
  • BALL

How it plays

  1. Goals 1

    • Royal Flush

Made by

Design & Software
John Buras
Art
Gordon Morison

Reference

Linked terms
  • Lower right saucer also called saucer
  • Upper left standup target also called Extra Ball target
  • Left semi-orbit lane also called side lane also called left orbit
  • Royal Flush also called Royal Flush hands
Playfield vision analysis

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Asteroid Annie and the Aliens playfield

Playfield

  • black
  • red
  • yellow
  • green

Fingerprint: Two enormous green-haired women painted on lower half: one in red uniform pointing both index fingers outward, other in yellow costume with green cap aiming sci-fi ray gun. Two yellow-green aliens with bulging bloodshot eyes and sharp teeth lurk nearby, green tentacles visible. Wire ramp looping top over star-bumper bank, card-suit drop-target grid. Space aliens, black field sprinkled stars.

Distinctive

The most memorable element is the pair of enormous green-haired, heavy-lashed women painted on the lower half of the playfield - one in a red uniform pointing both index fingers outward at the flippers, the other in a yellow costume with a green cap aiming a sci-fi ray gun. Close behind them lurk two yellow-green aliens with bulging bloodshot eyes and rows of sharp teeth, plus a tangle of bright green tentacles. A wire ramp loops across the top of the playfield over a bank of star-capped bumpers, and the name ASTEROID ANNIE is spelled out in big red capitals down the right edge. The whole centre is a grid of card-suit drop targets - hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades - which is unusual on a space-themed game. The bottom apron is unusually text-heavy, with a large cream instruction card, a hand-signed D. Gottlieb & Co. logo and a printed copyright line.

Setting

  • Outer space with star field
  • Abstract comic-strip panels flanking the centre

Symbols

  • Playing-card suits (hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades) on drop targets
  • Starburst decals on pop bumper caps
  • Sci-fi ray guns
  • Tentacles
  • Planets and small moons
  • Arrows
  • Numbers and score values

Notable shapes

  • Prominent arc of the chrome wire ramp over the top playfield; two big star-capped circular pop bumpers stacked in the centre; a 15-target card-suit grid; triangular orange-and-yellow side art panels with slanted score numbers 10,000 and 5000; reflections of the room and a reddish reflection streak across the right side of the glass.

Art motifs

  • Comic-book panel borders
  • Airbrushed sci-fi pin-up women
  • Glowing star field
  • Chrome wire ramps

Themes

  • Space
  • Aliens
  • Science fiction
  • Card suits
  • Pinball hardware

Title on it

  • Asteroid annie and the aliens

Text on it

  • ASTEROID ANNIE and the ALIENS
  • INSTRUCTIONS
  • 3 BALLS PER GAME
  • LIT TOP FOLLOWERS SPOT CORRESPONDING BITS IN ROYAL FLUSH HANDS.
  • DROP TARGETS LIGHT CORRESPONDING CARDS IN EACH LIT HAND.
  • DROP TARGET VALUE IS 5000 POINTS.
  • COMPLETING BOTH TARGET BANKS WITH SAME BALL LIGHTS EXTRA BALL TARGET ALTERNATELY
  • HOLE LIGHTS FOR SPECIAL WHEN ALL FOUR HANGS ARE COMPLETED.
  • MATCHING LAST TWO NUMBERS IN SCORE WITH MATCH NUMBER SCORES ONE REPLAY
  • 1 REPLAY FOR EACH SCORE OF 225,000 POINTS
  • 1 REPLAY FOR EACH SCORE OF 450,000 POINTS
  • FLIPPER BUTTONS ON SIDE OF CABINET
  • SHOOT AGAIN
  • SPECIAL WHEN LIT
  • WHEN LIT
  • EXTRA BALL
  • 5000
  • 10,000
  • 1000
  • 3X
  • 5X
  • 10X
  • 13,000
  • D. Gottlieb & Co.
  • A Columbia Pictures Industries Company
  • 166 W. LOUISE STREET, MORTON GROVE, ILLINOIS 60070
  • 5000 POUR ROYAL FLUSH BONUS
  • SHOOT AGAIN FOR SPECIAL WHEN ... BONUS
  • FLING BALL
  • A2675
  • 442
  • B-25957
Pop bumpers
Two large cream pop bumpers with red-and-white starburst caps in the centre, plus a row of small bumpers with star caps across the top.
Drop targets
Two banks of black targets with card-suit pips forming a 3-by-5 grid in the centre of the playfield, interleaved with plain circular targets.
Ramps
A single chrome wire-form ramp arcs across the upper playfield from the upper right over the bumper bank; a second shorter wire guide runs down the left side.
Slingshots
Two plain wireform sling rails flanking the lower flippers.
Upper playfield
Crowded upper area with the looping wire ramp, a row of small star-capped bumpers and targets, a lane with round lights on the left carrying 13,000 and million markings, and score inserts.
Apron and lower playfield
Cream card-style instruction card at bottom left, a black-and-white flipper buttons badge with arrows at bottom centre, a printed d. gottlieb & co. signature and columbia pictures industries copyright line at bottom right, and a numbered score reel window at the far right edge.
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Large central lower figure: woman with long emerald-green hair, heavy dark eye make-up, red lipstick, wearing a red uniform jacket; both arms extended forward, index fingers pointing outward in opposite directions, faint smile.
Woman Right side: blonde woman in a yellow/gold costume and green peaked cap, holding a long-barrelled silver sci-fi ray gun aimed up and to the left, determined expression.
Woman Left side: painted face in profile with dark hair, floating as part of a comic-strip style panel above the yellow alien.
Alien Left mid-playfield: large yellow-green creature with bulging bloodshot eyes, gaping mouth full of pointed teeth, wrinkled snout, painted in flat comic airbrush style.
Alien Right of centre: cluster of glossy green tentacled aliens with bulbous heads and large eyes, emerging from black space around the lower right.
Alien Upper left and top edges: partial green-skinned alien faces and eyes peering in from the borders of the playfield art.
Other Bottom centre: a pair of painted red-and-gold spaceships or rocket forms flanking the green-haired woman, angled inward.
Full description

Full-length view of a glass-covered pinball playfield set in deep black space sprinkled with tiny white and yellow stars. At the top, a wire-form ramp arcs across the upper playfield beneath a bank of small round bumpers with plastic star caps; the word ASTEROID ANNIE is spelled out in red block letters along the right side of the upper area. The centre is dominated by two large round pop bumpers with cream bodies and starburst decals, one above the other. Below them sits a 3-by-5 grid of black drop-target banks decorated with heart, diamond, club and spade pips, interspersed with plain round targets. On the left is a broad yellow-and-red art panel showing a snarling yellow-green alien with bulging eyes and a wide toothed mouth, plus a woman's painted face in profile. On the right a second blonde woman in a green cap brandishes a ray gun, flanked by green tentacled aliens and text about scores and a royal flush. The lower centre shows a large green-haired woman in a red uniform pointing both index fingers outward. Two white flipper bats with red rubber rings sit near the bottom, above a small round WHEN LIT / SPECIAL WHEN LIT / SHOOT AGAIN insert. The bottom apron carries a cream instruction card, a FLIPPER BUTTONS badge, a D. Gottlieb & Co. signature and a numbered score reel at the right. Dominant colours are black, red, yellow, green and cream; the art is bright flat comic-book airbrush illustration with heavy black keylines.

Backglass vision analysis

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Asteroid Annie and the Aliens backglass

Backglass

  • green
  • orange
  • purple
  • red

Fingerprint: ASTEROID ANNIE title in large orange block capitals, wall of snarling green and orange aliens crowding around single calm smiling blonde woman in red dress holding playing cards like gambler, enormous glossy green one-eyed torso on left half, playing cards with visible red heart spade diamond club pips scattered all over, small yellow instruction plaque reads NUMBERS TO MATCH

Distinctive

A wall of snarling green and orange aliens crowding around a single calm, smiling blonde woman in a red dress who holds playing cards like a gambler. Another memorable element is the enormous glossy green one-eyed torso on the left half. Third, playing cards with visible red heart, spade, diamond and club pips are scattered all over the artwork, even held by monsters. Fourth, a small yellow instruction plaque on the right shoulder of a scaly creature reads NUMBERS TO MATCH.

Setting

  • Deep purple-black void
  • Yellow horizontal band across the lower middle behind the figures

Symbols

  • Playing cards
  • Red heart pips
  • Black spade pips
  • Red diamond pips
  • Black club pips
  • Seven-segment numeral displays
  • Tentacles
  • Teeth and fangs
  • Antennae and eyestalks

Lettering

  • Yellow cursive script for the small name, chunky orange capitals with black shadowing for the main title, small yellow lowercase for the connector words

Themes

  • Space
  • Aliens
  • Card game
  • Monsters
  • Gambling

Title on it

  • Gottlieb's asteroid annie and the aliens

Text on it

  • Gottlieb's
  • ASTEROID ANNIE
  • and the
  • ALIENS
  • NUMBERS TO MATCH
  • BALL
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Central young adult blonde woman, bare shoulders, sleeveless low-cut red dress, red round earrings, thin necklace, smiling, holding a fan of red-backed playing cards in one hand and one upright white card with a red spade in the other
Alien Top left, green-haired fanged screaming head with metal forehead band and strings of blue beads
Alien Large glossy green muscular torso on the left with one huge red eye and smaller side eyes
Creature Black-eyed orange alien head on a stalk with red crest spikes, fanged open mouth, upper centre-left
Alien Green skull with orange eye socket on a green ribbed spine, right of centre
Alien Green beaked insect-like head with a dark eye and a segmented green limb curving over the top right
Monster Orange and green striped reptilian head with a red eye, spiky jaw and blue tongue, upper right
Monster Purple skull and a red cap-wearing skeletal face at the top right corner
Creature Bottom centre blue-green blob face with a crown of multiple eyes and a gaping mouth
Creature Bottom right orange lumpy monster with green spots, elongated snout and clawed yellow feet
Creature Bottom left orange tentacled beast with red suction-cup spots and a lion-like mane
Creature Left-centre orange-and-black banded creature with an eyestalk and an open toothed mouth
Creature Orange dinosaur-like reptile with rows of teeth at bottom right, facing left
Full description

Tall portrait-format backglass with a deep purple-black background almost entirely covered by monstrous aliens and orange-tentacled creatures, with a blonde woman in the centre. She is a slim young adult, bare-armed, in a low-cut sleeveless red dress with thin red straps, red round earrings, a delicate necklace, facing forward with a confident half-smile; she holds a fan of red-backed playing cards up in her right hand and a single upright white card with a red spade pip in her left. The top banner reads Gottlieb's in yellow cursive, ASTEROID ANNIE in large orange block capitals with dark outlines and a red chevron accent behind it, then 'and the' in small yellow letters and ALIENS in orange capitals. Top left is a green-haired fanged alien head with a metal headband and dangling blue beads; beside it a black-eyed orange alien head on a stalk and a green bone-ridged arm. The left side is filled by a huge glossy green torso with one large red eye and smaller eyes, blue and orange segmented tentacles curling across the frame, and a red-orange polka-dotted tentacled monster. Bottom centre is a blue-green many-eyed blob face; bottom right a lumpy orange creature with green spots, a yellow clawed foot and a curved dagger-like claw. Right side holds a red-lipped green skull, a beaked green insect head with a segmented limb, and small blue seven-segment style numeral displays.