Buckaroo / Cow Poke

A long, arrow-head-shaped 1960s electro-mechanical playfield painted in hot pink/magenta, salmon pink, sky blue, cream and yellow, heavily lit by magenta and blue LED strips that wash the wood in coloured light. The layout is a large pink arrowhead pointing up the middle. At the top sits a five-target bank of tall cream drop targets with red caps, flanked by three yellow dome pop bumper caps and two red-and-white starburst bumpers, plus a small round plunger knob at top centre. Curved red-and-yellow script lettering on white starbursts reads 'SPIN' on both upper left and upper right, with '10 POINTS' inside the adjacent round caps and '50 POINTS WHEN LIT' on angled white inserts. A row of eight white circles across the upper middle carries red numerals 1 through 7 in blue-outlined ovals. The centre of the arrowhead is dominated by a charging pink bull with a white horn, above a white ribbon banner carrying the red block title 'BUCKAROO' over a script 'D. Gottlieb & Co.' The lower arrowhead holds a blue starburst 'ROTO TARGET VALUE' window, two small teardrop windows reading 'FEED' and 'RICH', and two pale rubber 'LIPPER' bumpers. Two triangular inset art panels flank the centre: the left shows a cowboy in a white hat and red neckerchief raising both arms, the right shows a grinning cowboy in a dark hat and red neckerchief. The lower deck is pale grey-white with a red-and-white checkered border, a black 'BALLS PLAYED' window in a blue-outlined pill, a white instruction card, a QR code, and a red arrow reading 'FLIPPER BUTTONS ON SIDE OF CABINET'. A plaque at top left bears the same maker name in red.

A 1970s-vintage electro-mechanical coin-op playfield photographed through glass in a wooden cabinet, lit from inside. Layout is a classic wedge: at the top a cluster of five pop-bumper caps and four tall cone-shaped lane guides in orange, cream and red, with a central starburst target reading 100, flanked by two large round bumpers marked 10 in orange-and-cream concentric rings. Below, a horizontal row of numbered rollovers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 sits on a yellow-cream panel, under a cream nameplate reading COW-POKE above a red-and-white company logo. A large painted bullseye target of pink, white and red concentric rings dominates the centre, flanked by two triangular inset targets each showing a cartoon cowboy figure in a wide-brimmed hat; text beside them reads 100 POINTS WHEN TARGET DOWN. Under the bullseye, a horizontal slot with two green lenses reads 10 POINTS WHEN LIT, and below it a pink glowing lens in a yellow surround reads AUTO TARGET VALUE WHEN LIT. A shallow slot marked SPIN & 5 crosses the upper bullseye. Two yellow rubber flippers, two blue-and-white slingshots, a white metal ball-return trough at the bottom, and a black round button labelled FLIPPER. The lower apron is white with big red-and-blue striped FLIPPER BUTTONS lettering and a plain white COW-POKE instruction card. Colour palette: cream/off-white, red, yellow-orange and blue.

Illuminated backglass in a cream/white plastic surround with rectangular blue and magenta translucent colour blocks inset around the outer border. The painted panel has a deep blue sky streaked with magenta and purple clouds. Upper left: a huge yellow sombrero with a red band and blue-green stripe, tilted diagonally, with a rectangular reel window (four windows, comma between first and second) mounted over it showing the digits 6 7 2. Upper right: a smiling blonde pin-up woman in profile with bright red lips, cheeking a grinning yellow-gold horse head with a white blaze and a windmilling forelock; her hand cups the horse's jaw. A small square window to the right shows a 0. Across the middle runs a white printed band: MFD. BY D. GOTTLIEB & CO. ... CHICAGO, ILL. 60651, with a gold plaque reading A Gottlieb FLIPPER SKILL GAME over a pink flipper graphic. Below, a silver-bordered marquee reads Gottlieb's in red script and BUCKAROO in huge cream serif capitals with orange shading. The main picture is a desert ranch corral at golden hour: a lanky grey-white bucking horse mid-buck with an Indian-cowboy rider in red plaid shirt and blue jeans thrown forward, a second blonde figure and a tan-shirted man seated on the white fence behind, tall green saguaro cacti left and right, a stucco ranch house with terracotta roof and a windmill on the hill, pink mountains. Foreground bottom: a blonde girl in a magenta dress and wide white sun hat photographing the scene with a blue camera, and a cowboy in a red hat and blue shirt in profile. BUCKAROO is also painted on the ground in white script.

A landscape-format backglass with a cream/ivory outer border decorated with solid red and blue rectangles. The painted scene is a cartoon Western ranch at dusk. Across the top, a big brown cowboy hat holds a white reel window showing the numbers 2 - 4 1 - 4, against a deep blue sky streaked with pink and orange clouds. To the upper right, a smiling blonde young woman in a red-and-white checkered shirt leans cheek-to-cheek with a laughing brown horse whose pink-and-white muzzle shows big teeth. A pale pink card at right reads PREVIOUS HI-SCORE over a blank window. Below them a grey plate reads MFD. BY D. GOTTLIEB & CO. ... CHICAGO, ILL. 60651, with a yellow Gottlieb SUPPER SKILL GAME badge between the words. A horizontal banner across the middle carries red script Gottlieb's at the left and large yellow COW*POKE letters with a star for the apostrophe. The panel below shows a golden straw-hatted, tan-hatted cow standing in a fenced yellow paddock before a red barn, with a farmhand in a red shirt leaning on the fence, a bending man in a yellow plaid shirt, and a seated woman in a straw hat. At lower left a blonde cowgirl in a blue hat and blue denim outfit holds the cow's tail; at lower right a red-haired man in a white hat and red shirt is seen from behind. Along the bottom a brown rail reads COW*POKE above eleven numbered reel windows 1 through 10, and a white panel at right reads BALLS TO PLAY.

A painted cartoon backglass set inside a cream-yellowed wooden cabinet border, with the playfield-like scene contained in a rounded-rectangle window. Deep blue sky fills the upper half with two fluffy white clouds; a large mechanical score reel window sits upper left, showing 0,0,0,0 in black digits on white reels behind a red cloud-shaped housing with yellow trim. The lower half is a warm yellow-ochre desert ranch scene: a huge dark brown bucking horse rears at centre-left, a grinning cowboy in a wide straw sombrero, white shirt and blue trousers crouches beside it, and a broad-hatted man in blue overalls with a red neckerchief leans in at the right edge. Smaller riders and a yellow stagecoach sit in the mid-ground among pink and red rock buttes, cacti and a small windmill. Upper right shows a tiny pink-clad dancing woman, a red horse and a galloping white horse in the clouds, plus a small red water tower. Dominant colours: cream, blue, red, yellow-ochre.

Landscape backglass on a flat mid-blue field, with a photographic painted Western scene inset in the centre. Top left: an oversized bright red cowboy hat in profile, its white crown band carrying four black-outlined white number cards reading 2, 4, 4, 8. Upper right: a brown-and-white paint horse head with a white blaze, cheek to a blonde woman with curled hair and a pink-and-white gingham shirt, mouth open as if speaking. Below her, a white box reads PREVIOUS MISSIONS over a grid of pale squares. A black print line across mid-height reads MFD. BY D. GOTTLIEB & CO., a yellow crest, CHICAGO, ILL. 60651. The centre inset is a framed photographic ranch: a white horse rears centre-left, red barn and hitching rail behind, prickly pear cacti and a water tower right, and a plank signboard reading COWPOKE in black slab capitals. Bottom left, a laughing woman in a bright blue halter dress and wide yellow straw hat has her arm grabbed by the white horse's muzzle. Bottom right, a cowboy in a white hat and red shirt faces left. A red strip along the bottom carries ten number cards 1 to 10, with a black BALLS TO PLAY panel right.