Beat the Clock

A brightly lit electro-mechanical playfield shot from above, with the cabinet and black side rails visible and metal legs at the bottom. The lower apron is a bare wood-grain panel lettered BALLS PLAYED in red, with a white instruction card at lower left and a manufacturer plate at left. The playfield art is a racing/time-trial scene: a pale wooden board with converging yellow-gold light beams radiating from a clock motif, flanked by two chrome-rimmed pop bumper caps. At centre sit two large conical bumpers on red-and-white striped rings, an upside-down white '10' cap on a blue saucer at top centre, and four coloured horseshoe/ring targets (red, yellow, blue, red) arranged in a circle around lettering reading SPECIAL WHEN LIT and EJECTS BALL FROM STAR HOLE. Upper left is a red-hatted clown on a small platform; upper right a pink rabbit-like figure in white beside a sailboat on blue water. Mid-field two rockets with red noses point inward toward a golden standing figure, flanked by black-and-white chequered kicker plates. Lower centre a red open-wheel racing car with a helmeted driver. Two yellow star inlays read CLOCK ADVANCES WHEN LIT. Colours: golden yellow, red, white, black.

A vintage racing-themed backglass framed by a wide hot-pink and teal painted cabinet border, with a big yellow clock face at the centre of a brown banked-track background. The title arcs across the top in chunky orange block capitals with white and dark outlines, set on a dark blue sky band, with the manufacturer script logo in red cursive at top left inside a white circle. The central clock has a cream dial, a green-and-black compass-rose star in the middle and a red triangular pointer, ringed by yellow numerals 1 to 12 with 6 on a dark red disc. Four racers surround it: a blue-and-yellow rocket climbing at upper left, a brown horse with a yellow-jacketed rider beside a white fence post and lamp at upper right, a lime-green open-wheel racing car with a white-helmeted driver on the left, and a yellow-and-red striped hydrofoil boat with a driver in goggles on the right. Lower left, a man in an orange shirt and cream cap holds a stopwatch while a boy in a blue-and-yellow striped shirt holds a clipboard reading TIME TRIALS. Below the clock is a grey hexagonal SCORE panel with three mechanical digit windows showing 5 0 4, and along the bottom a curved red-and-white chequered band carries small player windows 2, 4, 6, 7 and the words GAME OVER.

A portrait-orientation racing-themed backglass framed by a thick red border painted to look like a white-and-red crash barrier with a white chevron motif at the foot. Across the top, curved block lettering reads BEAT the CLOCK, with BEAT and CLOCK in red block capitals with white faces and dark drop shadows, and the word the in slanted white script. A small circular emblem containing a stylised letter W sits at the top-left beside the script word Williams in red. The centre is dominated by a large white clock face ringed in yellow, its numerals 1 to 12 printed in yellow with 12 and 6 reversed out in red-and-yellow medallions; a red pointer sweeps down over a yellow-and-red starburst hub, and the ringed numerals 7 and 5 flank the bottom. Below the clock a white trapezoid panel carries SCORE in yellow block letters over a black inset window showing white digit cards reading 1 0 4. Four figures crowd the lower half: a man in a red racing suit and pale blue helmet gesturing with a raised fist, a mechanic in a yellow cap and blue-and-yellow striped overalls holding a yellow TIME TRIALS placard, a grinning driver in a blue open cockpit with a red-and-white helmet and green-tinted goggles, and a helmeted driver in a red, white and yellow speedboat. Racing imagery fills the wedges around the clock: a green open-wheel car with a yellow number 4, a blue rocket, a red-and-white motorcycle, a black horse with a jockey in yellow silks galloping past a white tower, and a red-and-white chequered curve sweeping across the bottom.