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Baby Pac-Man backglass

Also known as BPAC

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

  • blue
  • yellow
  • pink
  • white
Baby Pac-Man playfield
Spotted in this photo
  • 2 flippers
  • 2 ramps
  • 1 spinner
  • 2 slingshots

Full vision analysis

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

  • black
  • yellow
  • hot pink
  • blue
Baby Pac-Man backglass

Full vision analysis

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

  1. 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.

Baby Pac-Man playfield

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

Distinctive

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
Pop bumpers
Two pop bumper caps at the upper centre flanking the ball-score panel, each with a yellow cartoon face and a white saucer cap; plus two saucer holes marked saucer collects maze in the upper left and upper right blue panels
Spinners
One spinner in the upper right lane area, marked with a small 1000
Drop targets
Two tall central banks of dark blue lettered targets with yellow-outlined letters — the left bank reads p a c across the top section and m a n with 1 and 2 below, the right bank reads p a c then m a n with 3 and 4 below; each bank is flanked by white arrows and a central column of scoring numerals 4000, 6000, 3000, 4000, 8000, 2000 with 7 seconds markers
Ramps
Two clear plastic ramps forming raised lanes at the upper left and upper right, arcing up and rejoining near the top centre
Slingshots
Two tall vertical pink arrow inserts with chrome surrounds, one each side of the lower playfield, angled slightly inward
Upper playfield
Occupied by the ball-score panel, the two pop bumpers, the two saucer holes, the two curved ramps and the slingshot areas; the top arch is framed by rainbow-anodised metal
Apron and lower playfield
Lower deck has a black background with rainbow-trimmed lane outlines, two white flippers with yellow rubber, a brownish centre drain/plunger area, and the two cropped yellow characters at the extreme corners
Who and what
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
Full description

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.

Baby Pac-Man backglass

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

Distinctive

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
Who and what
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
Full description

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.