1982 · Stern Electronics
Cue
Dark green billiards table cloth, red and yellow table cushions and rails, large black elliptical drop shadow behind the lettering and cream nameplate panel in the top left corner.
- Year
- 1982
- Maker
- Stern Electronics
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Alphanumeric
- Players
- 4
Made by
- Design
- Harry Williams
- Design & Mechanics
- Brian Poklacki
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- black
- green
- red
- yellow
Fingerprint: Enormous CUE in yellow-to-red gradient block capitals with thick white outline tilted diagonally on black shadow, glossy billiard balls strewn bottom including yellow 9 ball, four red numerals 1–4 in white boxes under PLAYER UP, red and yellow billiards-table rails crossing dark green felt background, clean modernist design
The single gigantic word CUE, in yellow-to-red gradient block capitals with a heavy white outline, tilted diagonally across a black oval shadow. Underneath it, a row of glossy billiard balls strewn along the bottom edge, including a clearly numbered yellow 9 ball. Four red numerals 1, 2, 3, 4 in individual white boxes under the words PLAYER UP at the top right. A cream nameplate logo tucked into the top left corner. Billiards-table rail lines in red and yellow crossing a dark green background.
Setting
- Dark green billiards table cloth
- Red and yellow table cushions and rails
- Large black elliptical drop shadow behind the lettering
- Cream nameplate panel in the top left corner
Symbols
- Four white numbered player panels
- Billiard ball number 9
- Billiards table cushions and rails
- Score windows along the bottom
Lettering
- Very large bold sans-serif block capitals, each letter filled with a vertical yellow-to-red gradient, edged by a thick cream-white outline and an inner dark-red stripe; the whole word is set on a rising diagonal. secondary lettering in plain cream sans-serif capitals.
Themes
- Billiards
- Snooker and pool
- Cue sports
Title on it
- Cue
Text on it
- CUE
- PLAYER UP
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 9
- pinside.com
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Other | A billiard ball lying near the bottom left, coloured blue and white, half cropped by the frame edge |
| Other | A large yellow billiard ball just left of centre bottom, printed with a black numeral 9 in a small white circle |
| Other | A yellow ball tucked behind the large blue ball, only its upper curve showing |
| Other | A large glossy blue billiard ball at the bottom right foreground, with a white highlight and part of a number circle visible |
| Other | A red-and-white billiard ball at the right edge, tilted and partly behind the blue ball |
A square backglass dominated by one enormous word, CUE, whose block letters run diagonally from lower left to upper right. Each letter is filled with a gradient running from yellow-orange at the top to deep red at the bottom, and carries a thick cream-white outline plus a thin dark-red inline stripe. The letters sit on a broad black elliptical shadow that makes them float above the background. The backdrop is a dark green felt-like surface crossed by the red and yellow rails and cushion edges of a billiards table, drawn as straight right-angled lines. Top left carries a small cream nameplate logo. Top right has the words PLAYER UP in cream capitals above four white square panels, each with a red numeral 1, 2, 3 and 4, and a long greyed-out rectangular instruction panel hangs below them. Along the bottom, glossy billiard balls are piled: a blue-and-white striped ball, a yellow ball bearing a black 9, a red-and-white ball, a small yellow ball and a large blue ball, with four small blue score windows low in the centre.