Cover Girl

A wide, wedge-shaped electro-mechanical style playfield photographed in a wooden cabinet under glass, seen from the front of the machine. The background art is cream, tan and pale yellow, overlaid with strong red, royal blue and yellow geometric lane guides shaped like triangles, arrows and a big central diamond. At the top a clear plastic horseshoe-shaped guide or ramp arcs over the upper playfield, where a cluster of bumpers, stand-up targets and a fan of small lamps sits beneath large printed numerals. A large painted pin-up woman in a swim costume sprawls across the middle-left of the field, her flesh-toned limbs outlined in red. Down the centre runs a tall vertical insert strip studded with round yellow and red windows, flanked by cream triangular panels carrying two red oval inserts and the text 10 POINTS WHEN LIT on each side. Below the centre strip, a white banner carries a red script company name with the small title COVER GIRL beneath it. Lower left and lower right are angled banks of small dark drop-target windows marked with numerals, and two round blue inserts reading 15 POINTS WHEN LIT. Two yellow-and-red flippers with FLIPPER printed on their bases sit at the bottom, either side of a yellow 50 POINTS WHEN LIT arrow target. The wooden apron carries a red BALLS PLAYED window and blue printed instructions, with blue line-drawn figures of a woman and a man at either end.

A rounded-rectangle painted backglass in a dark green/black plastic bezel, with a light grey patterned background. Across the top a blue ribbon banner reads 'Gottlieb's' in white script, followed by the huge title 'COVER GIRL' in heavy red-and-white block capitals with a black outline and a small five-pointed star between the words. Below the title is a grid of twelve small rectangular picture panels arranged in two rows of six, each with a large numeral 1-6 down its left edge and a month name printed at the bottom: JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL, MAY, JUNE on the top row and JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER below. Each panel holds a different 1950s-style pin-up woman in a bathing costume (blue two-piece, yellow mini-dress, red swimsuit, yellow top with green skirt, green swim trunks with archery gear, red polka-dot swimsuit; a blue-and-white gingham sun hat, a 1940s hairstyle, a wide-brimmed hat, a yellow fur-trimmed coat, a feathered headdress, a red drape, a hoop). Lower half: a large cream-and-red mechanical score reel window showing four reels reading 0, 0, 6, 6 on an orange-red cabinet, perched on slim legs, with a yellow plaque reading 'a Gottlieb FLIPPER SKILL GAME CHICAGO ILL.' Six colourful game birds (crows, geese, a parrot, a jay) stand on the reels. Flanking the reels are two large figures: on the left a glamorous red-haired woman in a strapless red evening gown with a jewelled headband, leaning on a gold rail; on the right a smiling dark-haired man in a bright blue suit holding a camera in one hand and pointing at the score with the other. A green band runs along the bottom edge.