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1977 · Briarwood

Cosmic Pinball

Black starfield speckled with white dots and magenta and violet radial sunburst rays.

Year
1977
Maker
Briarwood
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.

Cosmic Pinball backglass

Backglass

  • black
  • magenta
  • blue
  • yellow

Fingerprint: cosmic pinball, large cratered blue moon occupying lower half with pale letter tiles across its face, dramatic fan of magenta and violet sunburst rays filling middle like rocket exhaust, symmetrical pair of yellow five-pointed stars on magenta ribbon banners flanking moon, black starfield with white speckle, no characters

Distinctive

The most memorable element is a huge cratered blue moon in the lower centre with a row of pale letter tiles laid across its face. Rising behind it is a dramatic fan of long magenta and violet sunburst rays that fill the middle of the panel like a rocket exhaust, spreading up into the title. A symmetrical pair of yellow five-pointed stars on magenta ribbon banners flank the moon at left and right. The whole panel is set on black with dense white star speckle and no characters at all.

Setting

  • Black starfield speckled with white dots
  • Magenta and violet radial sunburst rays

Symbols

  • Large cratered moon
  • Five-pointed yellow star
  • Magenta ribbon banner
  • Radial ray burst

Lettering

  • Tall condensed sans-serif block capitals, white-to-pale-pink gradient fill with dark purple outline, title spanning the full width at the top

Themes

  • Space
  • Moon
  • Planet
  • Starfield
  • Sunburst rays
  • Stars

Title on it

  • Cosmic pinball

Text on it

  • COSMIC PINBALL
Full description

A portrait-format backglass set in a wooden cabinet, with a plain brown wood top rail visible above the printed panel and a sliver of playfield showing below. The background is a deep black starfield speckled with fine white dots. Across the very top, in tall condensed block capitals, is the two-word title COSMIC PINBALL, the letters filled with a white-to-pale-pink vertical gradient, outlined in dark purple, with long magenta and violet ray beams fanning downward from behind the words. A large cratered blue-grey moon or planet sits dead centre, occupying the lower half, rendered in flat airbrushed greys and blues with dark shadow patches. A short row of small dark capital letters on pale rectangular tiles is set across the face of the moon. Flanking the moon at mid-height on both left and right is a five-pointed yellow star on a magenta ribbon banner, mirrored symmetrically. A block of tiny white instruction print sits in the lower-left corner. No people or characters appear; the artwork is entirely celestial and geometric.