Counterforce

Full-body photograph of an electro-mechanical pinball playfield seen from above through the cabinet, tilted so the apron and coin door fill the bottom of frame. The playfield is dominated by a military aviation theme: a scarlet and crimson background packed with yellow starbursts, a cream-coloured bomber aircraft flying left across the upper third trailing yellow flame-like streaks, and olive-drab green wing and machine shapes in the lower half. A large yellow starburst with the words FAMILY OVER in jagged yellow capitals sits mid-playfield. Circular insert discs reading 2000 WITH LIT appear repeatedly, and a diagonal bank of round drop targets numbered 1 through 10 runs up the right-centre beside a rising star medallion marked 20 and 10. Two white rubber pop bumpers with pink caps sit upper right, clear ramps with yellow rails edge both upper corners, and teal-tinted slingshots and plastics glow at mid-left. The apron is rose-pink with a big yellow star marked 80 and cream instruction cards.

Illuminated rectangular backglass filled edge to edge with airbrushed sci-fi battle art on a black ground. Across the top runs the title: 'Gottlieb's' in small yellow-green cursive script tucked left, followed by 'COUNTERFORCE' in enormous slanted block capitals, acid yellow with white inner faces and heavy black drop shadow, arched slightly. Four green player numbers (1 upper left, 2 upper right, 3 mid-left inside a yellow starburst, 4 mid-right) sit above four rectangular windows glowing cyan-green seven-segment digits, three reading 000 000 and the top-left reading 284 1.90. The centre is a massed tangle of olive-green and chartreuse futuristic warships with orange and pink ribbed hulls, tilted diagonally, with white spiky starburst flashes scattered over them like sparks. A large yellow-orange spiked cylindrical structure rises from the bottom centre, flanked by skeletal mechanical debris and a yellow sphere marked YORK. Lower right holds a pink-and-white label with black text. A wooden cabinet frame surrounds the glass.

A portrait-format backglass with a hot magenta-pink airbrushed space background scattered with white starbursts and thin white streak-lines. Across the top a small green script word reads 'Gottlieb's' followed by the huge title 'COUNTERFORCE' in fat yellow-green bubble letters with orange shading and a heavy black outline. A central painted figure: a green alien/helmeted humanoid head in profile facing left, rendered in dark green with a bulky ribbed collar, and a huge orange-ringed ringed planet behind it to the right. Flanking the head are two narrow rectangular inset panels: the left shows a red-and-yellow hand or launcher firing a blue-tipped rocket, the right shows a ringed planet. Bottom half is crowded with black-and-yellow machinery, two bulbous green-eyed alien or insect heads with pink-and-yellow domed brain casings, orange spheres, and a large gold riveted structure. Four blank light-blue rectangular display windows with black frames sit in a 2x2 grid, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 in green. Small instruction labels in white and pink lettering sit on both edges. A small pink-and-white service sticker with a cursive signature is stuck on the lower right corner.