Beat Time

A single-level electro-mechanical playfield in a chrome-railed cabinet. The ground colour is a vivid yellow-green with charcoal-black lower areas, orange accents and hot pink pinstripes; the art is flat 1960s comic-strip illustration. At the top two mirrored red scroll banners read 'The Beatles' in black script, above five star targets carrying discs printed 'WHEN HIGH 10 WHEN LIT'. Below sits a purple house-shaped shield reading 'THE BEATLES' over '100'. Two cartoon figures flank the middle: left, a woman in a pink headscarf with arms thrown up and fingers splayed; right, a blond man in a green and pink striped top with clenched fists. The centre holds a large pink-and-cream roulette wheel numbered 12, 3, 6 and 9, its green hub listing 'the VULTURES', 'the NEATHEADS', 'the GROANING BOOTLES', 'the LURCHERS' and 'the LOW HUMBLES'. A chevron-striped lower deck holds two black triangular slingshots labelled 'ORBIT 100' and 'VAPOURS', cream flippers, 'SPECIAL WHEN LIT' bumpers and '300 WHEN LIT' targets. Bottom cards read 'INSTRUCTIONS', 'SAME PLAYER SHOOTS AGAIN WHEN LIT', 'FLIPPER BUTTON' and 'BEAT TIME' with '3 BALLS PER GAME'.

A framed, brightly coloured backglass on a pale sky-blue background. Across the upper right, huge tapered block letters in lime green with heavy black outline spell BEAT TIME, and a small green dot sits above the T as if on an i. Below and left of the title is the red script Williams logo beside a black circle carrying a red W. The left third holds two score panels: a black wedge marked 1UP in red and 2UP in red, each with a row of four illuminated yellow digit windows reading 0 0 6 1 and 0 0 0 0. Green wavy hand-lettered sound effects YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY cascade behind the figures. Five young men in mod-style 1960s outfits crowd the centre and right: one in a red jacket and white collar strums a yellow angular guitar, another in a green top and black bowl-cut haircut plays a black-and-white patterned guitar, a third in a green shirt has a bowl cut and an open singing mouth, a fourth with a black mop-top leans over an orange-and-cream bass drum, and a fifth at the far right has dark red hair. A huge green-and-black dartboard-style roulette wheel labelled THE BEATLES fills the right side, marked 12, 3, 6 and 9 in yellow, with a large yellow dart in flight and a white dartboard behind it. Green trapezoid windows at the bottom read BALL IN PLAY, GAME OVER, INVITE COMPETITORS and ITS FUN TO COMPETE, beside 1 OR 2 CAN PLAY and PLAY SKILL GAMES - FOR FUN & RECREATION. A white circular BGR seal sits in the lower right corner.

Square printed backglass with a lime-green field and black corner wedges, framed by a thin black border. A large art-deco outlined title reading BEAT TIME fills the upper right in tall green block letters with heavy black outlines, with small red text TWO PLAYER above the last letter. The upper left carries a red 1UP and 2UP beside two horizontal banks of four rectangular reel windows (top set showing 1 2 3 1, lower set four blank white windows), and a row of repeated hand-lettered YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY in green capitals running diagonally. Seven cartoon 1960s-style figures of a pop band sweep diagonally across the centre: a boy in a pink jacket playing a trumpet, a shouting man in red shirt drumming with two sticks beside a white bass drum, a bespectacled singer, a bob-haired girl in green, a blonde with head thrown back, a reclining blonde girl in pink with long legs and a white shoe, and a dark-haired girl at the lower right holding a stick. A black-and-green roulette disc reading THE BOOTLES, ringed with the numbers 3, 6, 9 and 12, sits right of centre. Bottom edge carries BALL IN PLAY and PLAY SKILL GAMES - FOR FUN & RECREATION in small black caps on a white strip.