Disco Fever

Photograph of an electro-mechanical playfield under glass, shot at a steep angle with heavy white light glare streaking down the centre. The field is a rainbow of vertical and diagonal colour wedges: red, orange, yellow, teal, cream and brown bands radiating from a large standing figure painted in the middle of the lower playfield, a man in a cream/white suit and dark shoes, legs apart, one arm raised. Two cream-yellow rubber flippers sit at the bottom with a plain brown wooden apron between them. Each flipper is flanked by a triangular orange-and-blue insert reading 'FLIP' in black capitals, and beyond those a red panel reading 'SPECIAL WHEN LIT' with '1000' and '500' nearby. Above the flippers a blue band says 'FLIPPER BUTTON' with white arrows. The upper playfield is crowded with two large red mushroom pop-bumper caps, a lane of white circular inserts, rollovers and a kicker area marked with yellow 'A' and 'B' circles, 'SHOOT AGAIN', 'REPLAY' and '1000 1000'. Lettered score values 2,000 to 22,000 run up the right side. Two white instruction cards with dense black print sit on the lower apron beside a blue 'FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY' panel carrying a circled W emblem. Dominant colours are red, yellow, orange and teal.

A late-1970s-style painted backglass showing a mirrored disco floor rendered as a receding chequerboard of tiles, each tile carrying a large coloured oval in red, teal, turquoise or yellow, running from the bottom edge up to a horizon behind the figures. A single lanky young man with orange-brown swept-up hair dances centre stage in an all-white suit (jacket and trousers) trimmed with pink and magenta scroll and flame embroidery down the sleeves and outer leg seams, teal lining, a yellow shirt collar, and pointed black-and-white two-tone shoes. He stands wide-legged, right hand raised palm-out, left arm hanging, grinning at the viewer. Behind and to his right is a dense crowd of roughly nine onlookers in 1970s disco clothing, packed shoulder to shoulder and watching. The title DISCO FEVER sits on the left in huge hot-pink block capitals over a magenta-and-black jagged starburst, with a white script wordmark and a circled emblem above it. The upper third is a dark mirrored ceiling crowded with coloured light dots, starbursts and diagonal sparkle streaks. Four red seven-segment displays in black bezels are scattered across the glass, each paired with a gold coin-like disc reading 1ST UP, 2ND UP, 3RD UP and 4TH UP. Condition: glossy surface with strong reflections.