Count-Down / Space Walk

Photograph of a complete electro-mechanical playfield seen from above, glass-covered, with the cabinet front apron visible at the bottom and dark surroundings beyond. The playfield is a symmetrical, wedge-shaped space-and-comet scene painted in bold comic-book illustration. The background is a black outer-space sky sprinkled with white stars, overlaid by a huge swirling comet/lens flare of orange, yellow and red rays radiating from the upper centre. The dominant overall colour is a warm yellow field, with red, green, blue and white hardware accents. At the upper left is a large painted face of a woman with a pale cream complexion, heavy blue-black eyeliner, arched brows and wavy red-orange hair streaming to the right as if blown by wind; a smaller second face appears in a left-side panel. Two large plastic pop-bumper caps sit high left and high right, decorated with a comic rocket/comet streak over green-and-yellow bands. Down the centre runs a tall white rocket shape with a pointed nose cone, flanked by two vertical columns of round cream targets each ringed by a jagged starburst, labelled with descending red scores from 20,000 and 10,000 at the top down through 8,000, 9,000, 7,000, 6,000, 5,000, 4,000, 3,000, 2,000 and 1,000 near the bottom. The lower playfield carries two red-bordered cream instruction cards, a red chevron of three nested V shapes pointing down at centre, and two white rubber flippers with red faces at the base. The yellow lower area is filled with a row of pink and mauve cloud puffs along the bottom edge. Chrome rails, ball guides and posts run up both side lanes.

A rectangular backglass with a thick orange-red outer border and a riveted teal-and-blue metal frame, drawn in bold 1980s airbrushed comic style. Across the very top a large arched banner reads COUNTDOWN in chunky red block capitals with yellow-to-orange gradient faces and cream highlights, set against radiating white starburst lines on a black starfield. The centre-right is dominated by a chest-up male astronaut: a smiling light-skinned man with dark eyebrows and sideburns, his bare face visible through the clear visor of a white helmet ringed with red bands, wearing a pale blue spacesuit with red collar trim, orange chest harness straps and square buckle plates. A small cursive script name badge is painted on the helmet above his brow. His gloved hands grip a control yoke with a red coiled hose. To the left a tilted diamond-shaped inset window, shaped like a spacecraft window with a yellow porthole frame, contains two women in red sequined show costumes against a starry black field: a brunette in a low-cut bodice and a pink-haired woman wearing a crown or jewelled headdress, both leaning cheek-to-cheek with hands at their faces. Four yellow circular medallions numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 sit at the corners, each beside a black rectangular score window with cyan digital-looking digits. Dominant colours are red, teal blue, yellow and black.

A backglass photographed outdoors inside a chunky blue-painted wooden backbox frame, leaning beside a white car against a red-brick building. The artwork is a bright, hand-inked comic-style space scene in yellow, red, blue, black and pink. Upper left carries a large yellow-and-red script logo reading SPACE WALK, set over a pink circular badge ringed like a planet. Below it, a black starfield panel framed in blue contains two women with long magenta-pink hair in revealing red and pink tops, one raising an arm. The centre-right is dominated by a large astronaut in a white helmet with a red rim and a small striped crest, wearing a pale blue and white suit and gripping a control console. Upper right holds two stacked mechanical score reels in red-and-cream frames, each with a coloured numbered disc, reading 10050 on the top reel and 00000 below. A yellow-green angular space station and greebled machinery fill the right edge, while an orange circular badge lower right carries player information and a small white 'BALL IN PLAY' strip runs along the bottom.

A square, wood-framed backglass panel packed edge to edge with airbrushed retro-futurist artwork. Across the top, huge chunky block letters read COUNT-DOWN in gold/yellow-to-orange gradient capitals with magenta and dark red drop-shadow outlines and white star sparkle glints, over a deep blue geometric circuit-board background; a cursive script word Gottlieb sits in the upper left. Four rectangular score windows are set into the art in a 2x2 arrangement, each showing blue-green LED-style digits 582 190 and each paired with a yellow numbered disc in a red circle: 1 top-left, 2 top-right, 3 bottom-left, 4 bottom-right. Upper left quadrant shows a woman in a bubble space helmet with orange-blonde curly hair, red top and white collar, surrounded by orange starbursts, floating in a black starfield. Centre-right is a large white-and-red astronaut helmet with an orange-visored opening framing a man's face, blue eyes, dark brows and a slight smile; cursive name lettering on the helmet crown. Below him a gloved hand grips a red corrugated hose amid brown and blue machinery, panels and a small green-tinted digital readout showing 99 20. Lower right carries a yellow HIGH GAME TO DATE panel and a white maker's plate with cursive signature and city line.