1978 · Nordamatic
Devil
Deep blue night sky with lighter blue streaks of cloud, two white searchlight beams raking up from the lower left, red starburst explosion above the rooftops, flat-roofed city skyline in orange, red, yellow and blue and large white circular dial graphic at the top right.
- Year
- 1978
- Maker
- Nordamatic
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 1
Made by
- Art
- Michele "Mike" Martinelli
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- red
- yellow
- cream
Fingerprint: Gigantic blood-red devil black hair bare muscular shoulder dominates right half head overlaps score reel window arm sweeps bottom, enormous yellow DEVIL lettering upper left edged black red shadow, white circular MILLIONS value-per dial top right ringed red numbers, tiny rooftop diorama lower left brown dog rearing blocky orange yellow buildings
A gigantic blood-red devil with black hair and a bare muscular shoulder dominates the right half, drawn so large that his head overlaps the score reel window and his arm sweeps across the bottom of the glass. The second most memorable element is the enormous yellow DEVIL lettering in the upper left, edged in black with a red shadow. Third is the white circular MILLIONS value-per dial at the top right, ringed with red numbers, sitting oddly against the blue cloud background. Fourth is the tiny rooftop diorama at the lower left - a brown dog rearing up between blocky orange and yellow buildings with two women standing on separate roofs.
Setting
- Deep blue night sky with lighter blue streaks of cloud
- Two white searchlight beams raking up from the lower left
- Red starburst explosion above the rooftops
- Flat-roofed city skyline in orange, red, yellow and blue
- Large white circular dial graphic at the top right
Symbols
- Mechanical score reel window with digit wheels and blue comma separators
- Large white circular millions dial with red numerals around its rim
- Two small yellow circular lamps or discs at the bottom right
- White searchlight beams
- Red starburst explosion
- Small red-and-cream oval submarine badge at the top left
Lettering
- Heavy display type: tall condensed yellow slab-serif capitals with a black outline and red drop shadow for the title; plain red sans-serif capitals around the dial and in ball in play; small black capital letters on the cream reel band
Themes
- Devil
- Supernatural
- City skyline at night
- Searchlights
- Pin-up women
- Destruction
Title on it
- Devil
Text on it
- SUBMARINE
- MILLIONS
- value per
- DEVIL
- BALL IN PLAY
- 4X
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Monster | One colossal red-skinned male devil, bare-chested and hugely muscled, short black hair, drawn in left-facing profile with chin lifted, occupying the entire right half of the glass; his head sits beside the score reel and his long red arm reaches down and left across the bottom edge |
| Animal | One brown dog or hound rearing up on its hind legs on a rooftop at the left, mouth open, facing right |
| Woman | One brunette woman in a short red dress standing upright on a rooftop at the lower left, facing right |
| Woman | One blonde woman in a yellow dress standing on a rooftop just right of the brunette, facing left |
| Other | One small pale figure seated or crouched at an open window on the far left building, facing right |
Tall rectangular backglass in flat, boldly outlined comic-book style. The background is a deep blue night sky streaked with lighter blue clouds, crossed by two white searchlight beams from the lower left. Across the top runs a cream-coloured mechanical score reel window showing black reel digits and blue comma separators, with a small red-and-cream oval badge above it at left. Below that, filling the upper left, the huge title word DEVIL in tall yellow slab-serif capitals with a heavy black outline and a red drop shadow. On the right half looms a colossal red-skinned, black-haired muscular devil figure seen in profile facing left, his head tilted up beside the reel window, his bare shoulder and chest filling the right edge, one long arm reaching down across the bottom. At the top right is a large white/cream circular MILLIONS dial ringed with red numbers and a cream inner disc reading value per. The lower left shows a stylised city of flat-roofed orange, red, yellow and blue buildings with lit square windows; a brown dog-like animal rears up on one rooftop, a brunette in a red dress and a blonde in a yellow dress stand on lower rooftops, and a small pale figure sits at a window at far left. A white beam ends in a red starburst explosion over the rooftops.