Big Shot / Hot Shot / Pro Pool

A tall, symmetrical, late-1960s-style pinball backglass/translite in a bright carnival palette. A huge cream-and-gold MAN-IN-THE-MOON face with a purple-and-white faceplate sits at the top centre, below a fan of five flippers. A red triangular wedge runs down the middle with a mirrored figure standing on its point, flanked by green, teal, orange and yellow curved panels. Two cartoon figures stand mid-playfield: on the left a kneeling boy in a green shirt and brown shorts with a racket-like stick, on the right a smiling pin-up woman in a yellow two-piece swimsuit holding a long staff or spear. The centre holds a large triangle of fifteen numbered inserts (1-15) in red, yellow and blue, plus a diamond of three circles reading 8, 11 and 8. The lower third becomes a cream instruction card with a BIG SHOT rules panel on the left and a FLIPPER BUTTONS panel on the right, separated by blue-and-red arrows. Green, red and yellow illuminated plastics glow along the left and right edges. Condition is good: a yellowed cardboard tag reading WIR 35,000 is stuck at lower right, and a small green data plate is riveted at top left.

Full-view shot of a wood-railed electro-mechanical playfield seen from above through glass, lit by warm incandescent lamps. The centre is a large dark-green field with a broad yellow/magenta starburst radiating from the middle. Lettered HOT-SHOT in huge block capitals in gold/orange with a black outline sits mid-left, upside-down relative to the player (so it reads correctly from the opposite side). An eight-armed silver mechanical star/cross mechanism with a pink circular cap and an eight-ball emblem occupies the upper centre. Two cartoon human figures flank it: on the left a grinning jester in a red, yellow and blue fool's costume with a cap and bells, running; on the right a pin-up woman with long red hair in a yellow halter top holding a flaming torch upright. A giant pale skeletal hand with splayed fingers descends from the top-centre toward the star. Numbered circular inserts run 1 to 15 down two sloped side lanes and in a large inverted triangle at centre. The apron is white with red and blue pinstriped arrows and a white instruction card with a blue border, plus a brushed aluminium coin door showing 25C. Dominant colours: green, yellow, red, white.

A flatbed-style electro-mechanical pool/billiards playfield photographed head-on in its cabinet. The playfield is dominated by a bright green and yellow triangular fan shape with a red outer border, under a bare silver metal backbox at the top. At the top centre is a printed cartoon money box with a 1,000 coin slot and two eyes, flanked by four green and three yellow pop-bumper posts, with a '5,000 TOP POINTS' blue banner above. Down the left edge runs a white diagonal ribbon banner spelling PRO POOL in black block letters, beside a numbered ball-return lane with circles 1 to 7; a matching ribbon on the right reads SUPER POOL beside circles 9 to 15, flanked by red-and-yellow parasols and a man in a red shirt and green shorts holding a cue. Two cartoon figures peer over the centre: a smiling red-haired woman and a blonde man in a red jacket holding a bundle of white cue sticks. Two drop-target banks of eight discs (1-7 and 9-15) sit mid-field. The lower playfield is bare brown wood with white flippers, and the silver-grey apron carries white instruction cards, a red 'FLIPPER BUTTONS ON SIDE OF CABINET' plaque and blue script maker's signature.

A portrait-format backglass on a dark navy-blue field inside a broad maroon-red border. The upper third carries a scoring unit: a cream panel with a rack of five white billiard balls above a dark strip of four rectangular digit windows, flanked by lime-green and yellow blotches. Centre glass is a two-line title, a flowing yellow-gold cursive word above large mid-blue block capitals reading BILLY POOL with a white keyline. Two cartoon male players flank it. Left: a stocky, balding, middle-aged man with dark hair at the sides in a bright orange-red short-sleeved shirt, leaning forward with a clenched fist and a cue angled down. Right: a slimmer dark-haired man in a pale cream shirt with dark collar, cue held upright, head tilted down. The lower third is a green-felt pool table in steep perspective, its near rail reading BILLY POOL in small red capitals, red and dark balls scattered on the cloth, loose coloured balls at bottom right. Flat mid-century cartoon style with heavy black outlines.

A colourful cartoon-illustrated backglass built around a receding perspective view of a green-felt pool table that fills the lower half of the artwork, with red, blue, green, striped and black balls scattered across it, including a black ball carrying a white circle with the black numeral 4, a black 8, and a large green-and-white striped ball. Behind the table stands a smiling blonde woman in a bright green sleeveless dress, one hand raised to her cheek and the other gripping a cue stick upright. Beside her a red-haired young man in a red-and-cream striped shirt bends low over the table, cue extended, lining up a shot. On the far left a grinning man in a leopard-print shirt holds a cue, and in the dark blue background at upper right two more blue-tinted male faces grin out from shadow. Across the dark maroon middle band sits the title in huge yellow block letters with a white drop shadow. Two chrome-framed mechanical score windows with white reels and a comma sit left and right of centre, each under a triangular player banner.

A photographed backglass/translite panel dominated by a huge two-word title across the top half. Small white cursive script reading Gottlieb's sits centred above the title, slightly overlapping the top of the letters. The title HOT SHOT is set in massive block capitals: bright yellow fill, thick black outline and a heavy red drop shadow, spanning nearly the full width and cropped at the right edge so the final T is partly cut off. To the right of centre, below the title, black italic capital lettering reads IT'S MORE FUN TO, and below that the single white word COMPETE! with an exclamation mark; further down sits the white numeral 90. The background of the artwork is a flat, saturated red field. At centre-left a cartoon woman leans in from the left, shown in profile facing right: she has a black bob haircut with a blue/teal streak or scarf across the crown of her head, heavy green eye shadow, an open smiling mouth, and a red-and-blue spotted sleeveless top with bare arm and shoulder. A long thin tan stick, like a cue or pointer, runs diagonally up from her hand across the title. At the extreme left margin a second partial figure is cropped to just a sliver of blue/teal face and shoulder. Along the bottom of the frame the artwork is interrupted by a bright green playfield with glossy red-and-white striped balls and a pale blue ball, plus a yellow corner shape at lower left. The panel shows strong glossy reflections of window blinds and overhead lights.

A trans-lit backglass for a pool-themed game, with a cream-coloured cabinet surround visible around the printed panel. The artwork is a comic-book style pool hall scene on bold abstract swaths of dark maroon, red, sky blue and yellow. Four male pool players crowd the scene: a large grinning man in a red shirt with a blue-and-black quiff dominates centre-left, cue angled down to the table; a second young man in an orange shirt with two-tone red and white hair leans in centre-right with a raised pointing finger; a red-haired man in profile fills the lower right corner, smirking as he sights along the table. Two flat yellow-tinted background figures (a woman holding a cue and a man grinning) sit top left, and another yellow-tinted woman holding a cue stands at upper right. Lower half is a green-felt pool table scattered with coloured balls, with a yellow ball mid-table and balls racked nowhere in sight. Across the top a blue panel carries five coloured ball-backed letter reels spelling SCORE, a five-window mechanical score display reading 09,110, and a white PREVIOUS HIGH SCORE window at left. The centre logo is white cursive 'Gottlieb's' above huge block capitals PRO POOL in pale blue with red and black outline and drop shadow. Along the bottom sit eleven blue trapezoid panels numbered 1 to 10 and 1 in yellow, 'GAME OVER' in orange at left and 'BALLS TO PLAY' in yellow at right.

A painted, comic-book-styled backglass in a bright yellow, magenta, orange, teal and red palette, framed by a yellow cabinet edge. The scene is an ancient Egyptian harbour/temple at sunset: a wide blue-green water channel runs back through the middle, with an orange-red sun low on the horizon, green reed banks and small distant pyramids and obelisks, and a moored boat at right with a red-and-white striped canopy. Two colossal architecture elements dominate: on the left a teal-and-magenta temple facade with a red face emblem in a black arc at the top corner, and a huge green column wrapped in a thick red spiral band lettered MILLIONS; a second green column stands at right. Across the upper centre is a black-framed mechanical reel window with six white reels, and below it a small white-and-blue paper tag. The wordmark CLEOPATRA sits centre-right in large block capitals with an ankh for the O, in red outlined white and blue. Foreground left a standing Egyptian woman, right a male temple guard, and between them a crouching orange-and-black striped tiger.