1977 · Nordamatic
Card Castle
Bright blue sky with scattered white clouds, blue-grey stone castle with crenellated curtain wall and red conical turret roofs, yellow and red conical tent roofs at the far left, teal-blue flat title panel in the centre and pale yellow-ochre courtyard floor in the lower half.
- Year
- 1977
- Maker
- Nordamatic
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 1
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- red
- yellow
- cream
Fingerprint: Blue-grey fantasy castle with red conical turrets, "CARD CASTLE" teal panel title, oversized playing cards scattered in courtyard, large red heart pip, black spade court cards.
A fantasy castle of blue-grey stone with a crenellated wall and needle-thin red conical turrets sits under a bright blue sky, with two circus-like conical roofs in yellow and red at the far left. The title CARD CASTLE is painted in heavy red block capitals on a teal panel, with a tiny red heart and black spade pip pair acting as a decorative mark beside the word CARD. The courtyard below is littered with impossibly oversized playing cards - a huge glossy red heart at bottom centre and a 10 card at lower right - while a red-clad woman dominates the right-hand side. A white reel-number strip reading 6 7 6 7 8 9 0 runs horizontally across the upper third, separating sky from title.
Setting
- Bright blue sky with scattered white clouds
- Blue-grey stone castle with crenellated curtain wall and red conical turret roofs
- Yellow and red conical tent roofs at the far left
- Teal-blue flat title panel in the centre
- Pale yellow-ochre courtyard floor in the lower half
Symbols
- Large red heart pip
- Black spade pip
- Small red heart and black spade pip pair beside the title
- 10 of hearts card
- Jack/queen of spade court cards
- Playing card suit pips
- Conical turret roofs
- Reel number panels
Lettering
- Heavy red slab-serif capitals with cream outline and dark drop shadow, two stacked lines; a small illegible line of gold script sits above the title
Themes
- Playing cards
- Fantasy castle
- Card game
- Jester characters
- Medieval
- Carnival
Title on it
- Card castle
Text on it
- 6 7 6 7 8 9 0
- CARD
- CASTLE
- 10
- J
- Q
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Large figure on the right, dark skin, wearing a vivid red dress or body suit with patterned trim at the belt and hem, red sleeves, arms raised and bent, dark hair or headwrap with a headband; seen from the thighs up, facing left towards the courtyard |
| Other | Small figure left of centre in a red costume, arms outstretched as if dancing or fencing |
| Other | Small cream-and-gold figure near centre holding a large playing card |
| Other | Small figure in blue and white at centre-right, bent forward |
| Other | Further small gold-clad figure at the right edge of the courtyard |
A painted pinball backglass in a flat, hand-illustrated storybook style. The top third is a pale blue sky with soft white clouds and a fantasy castle of blue-grey stone: a long crenellated curtain wall on the right with slender turrets capped by tall red conical roofs, plus a cluster of yellow and red conical tent-roofs at the far left. Below the sky sits a wide white reel-number strip bordered in black, each digit in its own panel. The centre-left is a flat teal-blue panel carrying the title in big red slab-serif capitals with a cream outline: CARD on the upper line, CASTLE beneath, and a small red heart-and-black-spade pip pair tucked to the right of the D. The lower half is a pale yellow-ochre courtyard floor scattered with oversized playing cards: a black spade pip, a large glossy red heart, a red pip on a card at lower left, a 10 card at lower right, and a fan of black spade court cards along the right edge. Tiny costumed figures in red, blue, cream and gold play across the middle ground. A large red-clad woman dominates the right side. A bright white glare blooms over the lower-right cards.