Made by
- Design
- Wayne Neyens
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- black
- red
- yellow
- blue
Fingerprint: GOTTLIEB'S green-yellow caps flowing white cursive Continental Cafe coffee-cup substituting dotted-i, nightclub collage dozen figures blonde woman strapless yellow-dress front-center, dark-haired guitarist beside white-jukebox, yellow-black checkered dancing-suit dancer mid-right, pink-guitar-player woman right-edge, ornate red-green oval score-panels bottom, cafe jazz-party energy 1950s mid-century cartoon style
A packed nightclub party scene wrapped around a jukebox, with a blonde woman in a strapless yellow dress front and centre next to a guitar-playing man. Two white starburst bursts near the top read 1 or 2 CAN PLAY and IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE AGAINST A FRIEND, flanking a red TWO-PLAYER banner. The green-and-white GOTTLIEB'S above the flowing white script Continental Cafe, whose dotted i is a steaming coffee cup. A man in a loud yellow-and-black checkered dancing suit stands arms-out at mid-right. Two differently coloured ornate oval score panels, red and green, sit side by side across the bottom.
Setting
- Dark navy-to-black flat backdrop
- Indoor nightclub or cafe interior
- Jukebox and musical instruments throughout
- Retro cloud-and-rainbow decorative bands at the edges
Symbols
- Coffee cup and saucer
- Jukebox speaker cabinet
- Electric guitar
- Accordion
- Two white starburst bursts
- Red two-player lozenge banner
- Ornate red and green oval score panels with filigree and scroll work
- Cloud-and-rainbow painted border bands
- Four digit reels per player
- Yellow ball in play arrow
Lettering
- Large flowing white brush-cursive script for the title with a coffee-cup dot on the i, small green-yellow condensed caps for the maker name, tall white sans-serif caps in a red rounded lozenge for two-player, and bold black caps inside cream starburst callouts
Themes
- Nightclub
- Cafe
- Jazz
- Two-player versus game
- Jukebox
- Musical instruments
- Party
Title on it
- Gottlieb's continental cafe
Text on it
- GOTTLIEB'S
- Continental Cafe
- TWO-PLAYER
- 1 or 2 CAN PLAY
- IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE AGAINST A FRIEND
- 1st PLAYER
- 2nd PLAYER
- BALL IN PLAY
- D. Gottlieb & Co.
- Uncensored Pinball
- 1 2 3 PLAYERS
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Foreground centre, blonde bobbed hair, strapless bright yellow dress, smiling, shown from the waist up, front of a white jukebox speaker cabinet |
| Man | Foreground centre-left, dark swept-back hair, white shirt, holding a guitar across his body, facing right towards the blonde woman |
| Woman | Far left edge, red/auburn hair, only head and shoulder visible, facing inwards |
| Man | Mid-right, full-length, in a bold yellow-and-black checkered suit, arms flung wide, dancing |
| Woman | Far right, pink top, holding and playing a guitar, standing |
| Woman | Far right, seated on a stool in a red dress, legs visible, facing left |
| Man | Far right, yellow shirt, playing an accordion held at chest height |
| Other | Waiter/servant in black with white shirt front standing among the right-hand group |
| Other | Several smaller background partygoers in blue, red and pink clothing seated and standing in the left and mid-background crowd |
A landscape-format electro-mechanical backglass painted in a bright mid-century cartoon style on a very dark navy-to-black background. Top left carries the maker name GOTTLIEB'S in small green-yellow caps above the huge white cursive title Continental Cafe, two lines, with a coffee cup and saucer substituting the dot of the i. A wide red lozenge banner across the top centre reads TWO-PLAYER in tall white sans-serif caps. The centre is a crowded nightclub collage of about a dozen figures: foreground left a dark-haired man in a shirt holding a guitar beside a blonde woman in a strapless yellow dress, a white jukebox speaker cabinet behind them, a woman in a red hat at the far left edge; mid-right a man in a yellow-and-black checkered dancing suit with arms flung out; far right a woman in a pink top playing a guitar, a seated woman in a red dress, a man in a yellow shirt playing an accordion, and a waiter in black. Two white starburst speech bursts read 1 or 2 CAN PLAY and IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE AGAINST A FRIEND. The lower third is dominated by two ornate oval score windows, red for player 1 and green-yellow for player 2, each with a white number plate and four digit reels, labelled 1st PLAYER and 2nd PLAYER. Along the bottom edge are a yellow BALL IN PLAY arrow, a red bar with lamps, and a 1 2 3 PLAYERS panel.