1975 · Recel
Criterium 2000
Outdoor road-cycling race on a country road: banked dark clouds in a blue sky, distant green hills and fields, a crowd of spectators packed along the right verge, and a broad yellow-and-black hatched road surface filling the foreground.
- Year
- 1975
- Maker
- Recel
- 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.
Backglass
- navy blue
- yellow
- black
- green
Fingerprint: Huge blonde female cyclist in green shown three-quarter from behind occupying right half, right arm raised in triumph above tiny crowd of onlookers, international national flags immediately under score windows at upper left, chunky yellow-on-blue CRITERIUM 2000 block lettering anchoring left side, yellow-and-black hatched road texture with white cloud bank
The single most memorable feature is the huge painted blonde female cyclist in green, shown three-quarter from behind, occupying the whole right half of the glass with her right arm raised in triumph above a crowd of tiny painted onlookers. A second striking element is the row of international national flags set immediately under the score windows at upper left, including a Swiss flag and other striped flags. The title CRITERIUM 2000 in chunky yellow-on-blue block lettering anchors the left side and is the only large text block. The BALLY IN PLAY legend in the lower right corner is the only manufacturer word physically printed on the artwork. The yellow-and-black hatched road texture and the white cloud bank give the glass a busy, poster-like look despite the small image size.
Setting
- Outdoor road-cycling race on a country road: banked dark clouds in a blue sky, distant green hills and fields, a crowd of spectators packed along the right verge, and a broad yellow-and-black hatched road surface filling the foreground
Symbols
- Row of national flags beneath the score panel (a swiss flag with white cross on red, a blue/white/red tricolour, a union jack-style flag, and a red-and-yellow spanish-style flag), a black-and-white chequered racing band across the middle, painted bicycle wheels and frames in the foreground, a white score-reel window bank with a small pale-yellow caption band at top right
Lettering
- Heavy condensed sans-serif capitals, yellow fill with black outline and drop shadow, all caps, two lines; small white condensed sans-serif capitals for the bally in play legend
Themes
- Road cycling
- Bicycle race
- Sports
- France
- Championship event
- Crowd of spectators
Title on it
- Criterium 2000
Text on it
- 427630
- CRITERIUM
- 2000
- BALLY
- IN
- PLAY
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Other | Three painted cyclists: (1) a fair-skinned blonde woman at right, largest, seen from behind in three-quarter view, green helmet, green short-sleeved jersey and green leg warmers, right arm raised, left arm bent at the hip; (2) a smaller rider at lower centre with dark hair, blue-and-white striped jersey, dark shorts and white socks, hunched over the bars; (3) a third rider at lower left in a pink/magenta and white jersey on a yellow bicycle, partly cropped by the frame edge. plus roughly a dozen small painted spectators in the right-hand crowd, rendered in white, red and dark tones with raised arms. |
A small, low-resolution photograph of a pinball backglass printed with a road-cycling road-race scene. The upper third is a dark navy-blue sky with a bank of dark-blue clouds and a large white five-window score reel panel in a white plastic housing running across the top; the visible reel digits read 4 2 7 6 3 0 with the leftmost digit cut by the frame. A horizontal strip of national flags runs beneath the score panel at upper left, and above the reel at top right a small pale-yellow caption band with a white rectangular insert sits over the clouds. The left-centre carries a large two-line title, CRITERIUM over 2000, in heavy yellow block capitals with black outline on a blue field. Below and right, a yellow-and-black hatched road surface fills the lower half, with a black-and-white checkered band and a mass of small painted spectators in white, red and dark clothing along the right edge. Three painted cyclists ride left-to-right in the foreground, the largest a fair-skinned blonde woman in a green jersey, green leg warmers and a green helmet, right arm raised. Printed at lower right in white capitals is BALLY IN PLAY.