1978 · Sega Enterprises
Cha Cha Cha
Night sky with crescent moon and silhouetted palm fronds, island headland with lit buildings at upper right, moonlit sea with painted white wave crests and tropical beach party scene.
- Year
- 1978
- Maker
- Sega Enterprises
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Alphanumeric
- Players
- 2
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- pink
- orange
- yellow
Fingerprint: Cha-Cha-Cha title in pink bubble script, Caribbean beach night scene, party-goers dancing, green-out player plaque, score reels with digit strips, yellow chevron arrow insert, tropical colors bright pink and blue
The single most memorable element is a mass of about ten painted party-goers in a continuous frieze across the middle of the glass, dancing shoulder to shoulder in a horizontal line just under the title. Overlapping them is a large irregular pale-green translucent patch shaped like a peeled or sanded-out sticker area, with a dark purple shield-like silhouette inside it. The title is a lumpy rounded pink bubble script with a heavy white outline, reading Cha-Cha-Cha, sitting against a dark blue night sky with a yellow crescent moon. Two blue-framed score windows with red reel digit strips sit low on the left, separated by a large yellow downward-chevron arrow insert.
Setting
- Night sky with crescent moon and silhouetted palm fronds
- Island headland with lit buildings at upper right
- Moonlit sea with painted white wave crests
- Tropical beach party scene
Symbols
- Red-and-white triangular bunting flags
- Yellow chevron/downward arrow insert
- Two round orange-tinted lamps
- Blue-striped star-like emblems at the arrow tips
- Dark purple shield-shaped silhouette
- Crescent moon
- Parrot
- Palm fronds
Lettering
- Large rounded bubble/pillow script in hot pink with thick white keyline and dark drop shadow, mixed-case
Themes
- Tropical beach party
- Night sea
- Moonlit
- Dancing figures
- Music and dance
Title on it
- Cha-cha-cha
Text on it
- Cha-Cha-Cha
- SEGA
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Far left of the frieze, dark-skinned, black hair, standing in profile in a red/orange two-piece, arm raised |
| Animal | Green parrot with yellow wing bars and a red head perched on a branch just left of centre |
| Woman | Pale sleeveless ruffled dress, dark bobbed hair, both arms up, dancing left of centre |
| Man | Bare chest, red open shirt over shoulders, dark trousers, holding a drink |
| Woman | Orange/yellow bikini, one arm over her head, smiling |
| Man | Yellow shirt and striped tie, gesturing with a raised hand |
| Woman | Pink patterned dress, holding a glass |
| Man | Pink cap, blue shirt, arms thrown up beside the greened-out plaque area |
| Man | Far right, bare chest with a large tattoo, blue open shirt, one arm raised high |
A photographic backglass with a hot pink bubble-letter script logo reading Cha-Cha-Cha across the upper third, outlined in white with a dark shadow, and a small white SEGA block above it. Behind the title is a night-time Caribbean beach scene: dark blue sky, silhouetted palm fronds at the top left, a yellow crescent moon and a dark island with lit buildings at the top right, and blue moonlit water with white wave crests filling the lower half. Across the middle runs a horizontal line of about ten painted partying adults in tropical clothes, men in open shirts and patterned trousers and women in bright bikinis and ruffled dresses, arms raised, plus a parrot perched near the left of the row and a large greened-out player-plaque silhouette in front of the figures at centre-right. Below sit two blue-framed rectangular score windows with red-bordered reels of dark red digits on black, a yellow chevron-arrow insert between them, a red-and-white triangular bunting strip, two round orange-tinted lamps with a short white caption between them, and a small white instruction card at lower right. Dominant colours are blue, pink, orange-red and yellow; the whole piece is glossy behind glass with a visible diagonal glare streak at lower right.