Black Gold

Full-length view of a brightly painted pinball playfield dominated by a cream and tan backdrop with a hot pink, orange and turquoise centre. A blue-painted steel lattice tower runs down the middle like an oil derrick, studded with round drop targets in descending pairs numbered 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1, with two red round targets at the very base either side of a triangle mosaic. At the top a yellow sunburst panel reads 500, WHEN LIT and ADVANCE BONUS around a round hole. Two large white-and-green pop bumpers sit side by side above the derrick. Two yellow pear-shaped inserts either side read MAKING LIFE 10 SCORE / EXTRA SPECIAL, flanked by two orange flipper bats, with ANY TIME 4 TO 10 in white arrows pointing inwards. Two big yellow ovals read BONUS in curved black letters, ringed by 15,000, 10,000, 5,000 on the left and 30,000, 25,000, 20,000 on the right. Pin-up bikini women in yellow polka-dot and green swimwear fill the top left and right corners, with smaller painted women down both side lanes. The lower apron carries a printed instruction card, FLIPPER BUTTON arrows, a circled W emblem, and 3 BALLS PER GAME.

A printed pinball backglass in a bold 1980s airbrushed-and-inked comic style, framed by a pale wooden backbox. The background is a huge orange-and-olive-yellow sunset sky with a low magenta horizon band, layered black-and-yellow scalloped cloud banks across the top and left, and a red steel oil derrick rising the full height of the right side above a scaffolded pier. Across the upper left hangs a black scroll-shaped score panel with a small white-and-blue ball resting on its top edge and six mechanical digit windows reading 1 4 6 3 0. Centred is a small white circle with a red W and a red cursive company name, above the enormous hot-pink title BLACK GOLD in tall angular letters with black shadowing, a crane boom cutting behind it. Four figures occupy a sleek teal-and-navy motor launch in the lower half: a grey-haired man in an orange shirt at far left, a blonde woman in a blue top and white striped trousers waving, a young man in a blue shirt at the wheel, and a reclining woman in a red bikini with blue hair. BALLS TO PLAY is printed in white block capitals across the hull, with green glowing porthole lamps beneath.

A painted backglass in a flat mid-century airbrushed/comic style, dominated by a huge orange-and-yellow setting sun with concentric magenta and yellow sunburst rays filling the sky. Dark navy cloud silhouettes band the top edge and the horizon. On the right a tall red-orange lattice oil derrick tower rises the full height, standing on stilts over green-blue choppy water, with a pumping-unit platform and railing structure at mid-right. The lower third is a choppy sea of white-capped teal and green waves. In the foreground a white speedboat with a red and dark-blue hull stripe cuts left-to-right; a woman in a red bikini and red cap sits on the boat's bow with her legs stretched forward, propped on one elbow. Behind her stands a man in a blue sleeveless top. On the left, a blonde woman in a white top and vertically striped trousers raises one arm in a wave, with a further woman in a dark bikini at the far left edge. Lettering: a white segmented score window at upper left reading 87420 in black digit panels, a red script brand word above the title, and the main title BLACK GOLD in tall condensed pink-and-black capitals with an inline black-gold outline. White text BALLS to PLAY sits on the boat's hull.