1982 · Bally
Baby Pac-Man
Known for Video game, Pinball Mode, Maze escape tunnels and Center drop targets. Solid black backdrop and concentric striped rounded border frame.
- Year
- 1982
- Maker
- Bally
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- CGA monitor
- Players
- 2
Known for
- video screen
Video game
- playfield
Pinball Mode
- exits
Maze escape tunnels
- Target
Center drop targets
- Captive ball
Captive ball
- saucer
Upper left saucer
- saucer
Upper right saucer
- Goal
PACMAN
On the playfield
Toy 1
- Ghost box
Extra level 1
- Pinball Mode playfield
Shot 1
- Maze escape tunnels exits
Holes 3
- Upper left saucer saucer
- Upper right saucer saucer
- Warp tunnel tunnel
Captive ball 1
- Captive ball
Targets 3
- Center drop targets
- Blue center target
- Arrows
Lanes 4
- FRUITS lane
- TUNNEL lane
- Left equalizer lane
- Right equalizer lane
Display 1
- Video game video screen
On the backglass
Who and what
- animal Round yellow chick/bird character on the left, spiky blue crest of feathers on its head, large white eyes with black pupils, open smiling beak, small orange wing, wearing oversized white four-fingered gloves and raising both fists in a boxing stance, leaning in from the left border
- monster Shaggy bright-blue furry creature on the right with a rounded body, wide eyes with white sclera and dark pupils, and oversized white four-fingered gloves, peeking in from the right edge with both hands raised
Setting
- Solid black backdrop
- Concentric striped rounded border frame
Text on it
- Bally
- BABY
- PAC-MAN
How it plays
-
Goals 6
- PACMAN
- Energizers
- TUNNEL
- FRUITS
- Tunnel Speed
- Extra Baby
Made by
- Design
- Claude Fernandez
- Art
- Margaret Hudson
- Art
- Pat McMahon
The cast
- Baby Pac-Man
- Ghosts
Reference
Linked terms
- Video game also called Maze Mode
- Pinball Mode also called Pinball game
- Maze escape tunnels also called Lower exits also called Hatches
- Center drop targets also called Yellow center targets
- Blue center target also called Extra Baby target
- Upper left saucer also called Left saucer
- Upper right saucer also called Right saucer
- Left equalizer lane also called Inner-left lane
- Right equalizer lane also called Inner-right lane
- PACMAN also called PAC MAN also called Power-pill columns
- Energizers also called Power Pill also called Power pills
- Tunnel Speed also called Speed 8
- Extra Baby also called Extra Life
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- blue
- yellow
- pink
- white
Fingerprint: Pac-Man electro-mechanical, dense field yellow big-lipped tumbling characters on blue cloud background, pink heart-shaped devil with white hood holding butterfly net, symmetrical tall drop-target banks spelling pac-man and spell, winged woman in red dress floating right side
The most memorable feature is the dense field of identical yellow, big-lipped cartoon characters tumbling head-over-heels all over the blue cloud background, including one upside-down directly between the flippers. Second, a large pink heart-shaped devil figure with a white pointed hood and beard on the left, holding a butterfly net with a fish inside it. Third, two tall symmetrical banks of lettered drop targets spelling PAC-MAN and SPELL. Fourth, a winged woman in a red dress and white bonnet floating on the right beside a small boxy camera.
Setting
- Bright blue sky with scattered white and cream cumulus clouds
- Sagging power lines on brown telegraph poles at lower left
- Clear plastic ramp tubing arcing across both upper corners
- Black unlit voids behind the two lower apron corners
Symbols
- Wedge-shaped pac-man mouth motif on every yellow face
- Butterfly net with a spotted fish
- Boxy bellows camera with a round lens and a flash arm
- Pointing white gloved hands
- Power lines and telegraph poles
- Small pink strawberry with a yellow halo
- Card-suit-like arrow shapes and yellow chevrons
- Chrome-edged arrow inserts with 7-segment numerals
Notable shapes
- Two tall narrow lettered target banks forming a central rectangular block with a narrow numbered column between them
- Long pink arrow inserts in chrome bezels on both lower flanks
- Sweeping clear ramp tubes framing the top corners in a symmetric arch
- Curving rainbow-anodised metal trim outlining the lower apron
- Circular bubbled clear plastics over the pop bumpers
Art motifs
- Spotted halftone dot shading
- Fat outlined bubble lettering
- Seven-segment score numerals in red
- Starburst halos behind small prizes
- Chrome rainbow foil borders
- Dotted bulb strips framing the target banks
Themes
- Arcade character
- Maze
- Cartoon
- Pac-man style
- Cloud sky
- Flying woman
- Devil
Title on it
- Pac-man
Text on it
- BALL SCORES
- 1000
- TARGET SCORES
- 500
- SAUCER COLLECTS MAZE
- SPOTS F.RUITS
- SPOTS F.U.R.A.E.
- TARGET SPOTS ONE LETTER 10 WHEN COLLECTED
- BALL SPOTS ENERGIZER FOR 4 THEN 2 LETTERS
- EXTRA BALL
- SPELL
- PAC-MAN
- ENERGIZERS
- TIMER
- WHEN FLASHING
- EVENS UP PAC-MAN COLUMNS 1 OR 2
- EVENS UP PAC-MAN COLUMNS 3 OR 4
- SPOTS CENTER ARROW
- play again
- 7 Seconds
- 4000
- 6 0000
- 3000
- 8000
- 2000
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- P
- A
- C
- M
- N
- PAC-MAN COLLECTED
- MORE 1 LIT
- 5 TO LIGHT SPELL LETTER
- TARGET 10000
- 600
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Creature | Large pink heart-shaped devil at left centre: pointed white hood and matching goatee beard, small horns, white gloved hands, one hand gripping a butterfly net with a spotted fish inside; grinning |
| Creature | Yellow round cartoon character mid-right, running full tilt to the right with white gloves outstretched, big red lips and a wedge-shaped pac-man mouth cut out of its face |
| Creature | Same yellow round character tumbling upside-down just below the centre timer text, one gloved hand waving, mouth open, a pink-red cap on its head |
| Creature | Same yellow round character at top centre above the ball-score panel, both hands raised, running |
| Creature | Yellow round character cropped at bottom left corner, eyes closed, red lips, white gloved hand |
| Creature | Yellow round character cropped at bottom right corner, red lips, long pointed hair tufts and white glove |
| Woman | Woman at right centre: red dress, wide white-brimmed bonnet, enormous white feathered wings spread upward, long dark braided hair, one arm reaching out toward the playfield |
| Creature | Small pink round figure in red shorts and pink shoes standing beside the winged woman near top right, arms spread |
| Creature | Red devil head with horns and a white face peering over the top-left ramp, plus another red horned figure behind the ball-score panel at top |
A complete painted pinball playfield photographed straight on, shot in landscape with black voids at the lower corners. The surface is dominated by mid-blue sky filled with puffy white-and-cream clouds, crossed by sagging power lines on brown telegraph poles at lower left, and ringed by clear plastic ramp tubing at both upper corners. Lettering is hand-lettered in a fat, curvy cartoon style in yellow, red, white and black. Two symmetrical vertical drop-target banks of dark blue panels with yellow-outlined letters dominate the centre, captioned SPELL and PAC-MAN in red. Flanking them are tall pink arrow inserts inside chrome-edged lanes with yellow 7-segment scoring text. Numerous yellow round cartoon characters with big red lips, white gloves and pac-man style wedge mouths are scattered throughout: two cropped ones in the bottom corners, one tumbling upside-down below centre, one running at top centre, one mid-right. A large pink heart-shaped devil with a pointed white hood, goatee beard and tiny horns leans in from left centre holding a butterfly net. A woman in a red dress, white bonnet and long white feathered wings floats at right centre, one arm outstretched. Two white-and-yellow flippers sit at lower centre.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- black
- yellow
- hot pink
- blue
Fingerprint: BABY and PAC-MAN in enormous slanted yellow block letters with magenta-and-cyan drop shadow on black field, yellow chick with spiky blue crest on left and shaggy blue furry monster on right flanking title, both characters wearing boxing gloves, triple-stripe pink yellow magenta rounded border frames artwork
The enormous slanted yellow PAC-MAN title with a yellow hyphen, edged in white and given a magenta-and-cyan drop shadow, dominating a black field. Two boxing-glove-wearing cartoon characters flank the title: a yellow chick with a spiky blue crest on the left and a shaggy blue furry monster on the right. Above the title, BABY in hot-pink block capitals with a small blue cursive Bally script tucked to its upper left. A triple-stripe pink/yellow/magenta rounded border frames everything, with a visible yellow diagonal light streak on the left edge.
Setting
- Solid black backdrop
- Concentric striped rounded border frame
Symbols
- Yellow hyphen between words
- Four-fingered white gloves
- Spiky blue feather crest
- Concentric pink/yellow/magenta border stripes
Lettering
- Chunky slanted sans-serif block capitals in yellow with white highlight and magenta/cyan drop shadow; hot-pink block capitals with magenta shadow for baby; blue cursive script with pink outline for the small name at top left
Themes
- Maze game
- Yellow cartoon bird
- Blue furry monster
- Boxing gloves
- Arcade characters
Title on it
- Pac-man
Text on it
- Bally
- BABY
- PAC-MAN
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Animal | Round yellow chick/bird character on the left, spiky blue crest of feathers on its head, large white eyes with black pupils, open smiling beak, small orange wing, wearing oversized white four-fingered gloves and raising both fists in a boxing stance, leaning in from the left border |
| Monster | Shaggy bright-blue furry creature on the right with a rounded body, wide eyes with white sclera and dark pupils, and oversized white four-fingered gloves, peeking in from the right edge with both hands raised |
A wide, short, single-line backglass with a black background and a rounded rectangular border made of concentric stripes in hot pink, orange-yellow and magenta. The upper centre holds the word BABY in large chunky hot-pink block capitals with darker pink/magenta drop shadow, and to its upper left a smaller cursive script word in blue outlined in pink reading Bally. Below, spanning nearly the full width, is the enormous title PAC-MAN in slanted chunky yellow capitals, each letter edged with a white inner highlight and a magenta and cyan drop shadow outline. A yellow hyphen sits between PAC and MAN. Two cartoon characters flank the title: on the left a round yellow chick-like bird with a spiky blue crest, big white eyes with black pupils, an open smiling beak, and four-fingered white gloves, leaning in with both fists raised as if boxing; on the right a shaggy bright-blue furry monster with a rounded body, wide eyes and white gloves, peeking in from the edge with both hands raised. No score reels, instruction panel or any small print are visible; the glass is glossy with faint reflections.