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1974 · Playmatic

Chance

Star field, pale blue radiating sunburst rays and medieval castle.

Year
1974
Maker
Playmatic
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.

Chance backglass

Backglass

  • purple
  • yellow
  • red
  • blue

Fingerprint: chance: wordmark slanting up left in white-yellow block letters with thick red drop shadow, huge multi-coloured prize wheel at centre with wedge labels and red castle in oval centre, blonde woman in star-spangled mauve dress left, grinning jester in floppy purple hat right crowding edge, deep blue violet star field

Distinctive

The single most memorable element is the enormous CHANCE wordmark slanting up from the left edge in white-and-yellow block letters with a thick red drop shadow. Second, the huge multi-coloured prize wheel at centre, packed with wedge labels such as 200 POINTS, 500 POINTS and BONUS around an oval picture of a red castle. Third, the blonde woman in a star-spangled mauve dress on the left. Fourth, the grinning jester in a floppy purple hat crowding the right edge.

Setting

  • Star field
  • Pale blue radiating sunburst rays
  • Medieval castle

Symbols

  • Five-pointed white stars
  • Radiating sunburst rays
  • Prize wheel wedges
  • Castle tower

Lettering

  • Very large slanted sans-serif block capitals, white face with yellow inner shading and heavy red-orange drop shadow

Themes

  • Prize wheel
  • Chance
  • Fairground
  • Medieval castle
  • Stars
  • Jester

Title on it

  • Chance

Text on it

  • CHANCE
  • 200 POINTS
  • 500 POINTS
  • 1000
  • BONUS
  • SPECIAL
  • DOUBLE BONUS
  • MYSTERY
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Blonde, fair-skinned, shoulder-length hair with a curl, wearing a mauve-pink dress patterned with white stars and a white collar; standing at the left edge, facing right, in three-quarter view
Other Grinning clown or jester at the right edge in a floppy purple hat with a yellow band, exaggerated wide mouth and prominent teeth, shown in profile facing left
Animal Small tawny owl with a rounded head and large eyes standing just right of centre at the base of the playfield window
Animal Black cat-like figure with pointed ears below the playfield window, near the bottom edge
Other A red-roofed castle turret with a conical orange roof at the bottom centre-left
Full description

A printed backglass in a flat, brightly coloured mid-century cartoon style. The upper left is dominated by a huge diagonal word CHANCE in chunky white block capitals with yellow inner shading and a heavy red-orange drop shadow on a purple ground. The centre holds a giant prize wheel outlined in dark purple and pink, its rim divided into alternating coloured wedges - yellow, green, red and pale pink - each carrying lettering, with a large oval at the middle showing a red brick castle tower with a dark arched doorway, green turrets and blue sky. Behind everything is a deep blue and violet star field scattered with white five-pointed stars and pale blue radiating rays. On the left stands a blonde woman in a mauve-pink dress covered in white stars with a white collar; on the right edge a grinning clown or jester in a floppy purple hat leans in. Along the bottom is a wide white rectangular window divided into three black-framed openings, a small red-roofed castle turret, a black cat-like figure and a small tawny owl.