Made by
- Design
- Wayne Neyens
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- red
- blue
- yellow
- cream
Fingerprint: "DOUBLE ACTION" pale-yellow title split by white service sticker. Purple and magenta vertical wedge flaring open top, tapering to sharp point at bottom centre. Slogans "1 or 2 CAN PLAY AT THE SAME TIME" and "IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE! A GAME OF SKILL". Two symmetric oval score panels with cream wheels. Yellow starburst holding white ball in circle. Tessellated blue triangle background.
The enormous pale-yellow DOUBLE ACTION title split by a small white service sticker, with a purple and magenta flared wedge tapering to a sharp point dead centre between the two score windows. Two slanted white slogan placards on a red field: 1 or 2 CAN PLAY AT THE SAME TIME on the left and IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE! A GAME OF SKILL on the right. Symmetric oval score panels with cream number wheels reading 7 1 3 and 0 0 0, labelled 1st PLAYER and 2nd PLAYER with red pennants carrying 1 and 2. A yellow starburst holding a white ball in a circle at centre, with a second starburst at upper right over a tessellated blue triangle background.
Setting
- Bright red upper band
- Mid-blue tessellated triangle pattern field behind the score windows
- Varnished light-brown wooden cabinet frame around the glass
Symbols
- Yellow starburst sun with radiating spikes
- Yellow starburst containing a white ball in a circle
- Black-outlined spade-style emblem behind the ball-in-play plaque
- Yellow arrows pointing upward and downward either side of the centre wedge
- Four black diamond arrowhead motifs on each lower yellow strip
- Three concentric coloured oval borders around each score window
- Small white service sticker with handwritten dark text pasted across the title
Lettering
- Very large cream and yellow block capitals with heavy black drop shadow and red inner shading for the title; white sans-serif capitals on slanted white panels for the slogans; red sans-serif word players on a small yellow circular badge; red numerals on pennants and discs
Themes
- Two-player head-to-head play
- Competitive skill game
- Mechanical score reels
- Retro geometric pattern background
- Instruction card backglass
Title on it
- Double action
Text on it
- 2 PLAYER
- DOUBLE ACTION
- 1 or 2
- CAN PLAY
- AT THE SAME TIME
- IT'S MORE FUN
- TO COMPETE!
- A GAME OF SKILL
- BALL in PLAY
- 1
- 2
- 1st PLAYER
- 2nd PLAYER
- 7 1 3
- 0 0 0
- 1 PLAYERS 2
Flat rectangular backglass artwork, roughly square, mounted inside a varnished light-brown wooden cabinet frame. The field is dominated by a bright red upper band over a mid-blue background built from a repeating tessellated triangle pattern in blue, teal and white. At upper left a white cursive script word sits beside large white block capitals reading 2 PLAYER. Below that the enormous title DOUBLE ACTION spans almost the full width in tall cream and pale-yellow block letters with heavy black shadow and red interior shading, the two words split by a small white rectangular service sticker. A yellow-and-orange starburst with radiating spikes sits at upper right, and a second yellow starburst containing a white ball-in-socket circle is centred below the title. Two slanted white placards with red borders carry slogans: the left reads 1 or 2 CAN PLAY AT THE SAME TIME, the right reads IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE! with A GAME OF SKILL beneath in red. Between them a purple and magenta vertical wedge flares open at the top like a funnel and tapers to a point at bottom centre, flanked by yellow arrows and a black-outlined emblem reading BALL in PLAY. The lower half has two symmetric rounded-rectangle score windows: the left labelled 1 on a red pennant with 1st PLAYER beneath, the right labelled 2 with 2nd PLAYER. Each window has concentric red, orange, yellow and white oval borders and four small cream number wheels, showing a blank comma tile then 7 1 3 on the left and a blank comma tile then 0 0 0 on the right. A small round yellow badge at bottom centre carries a red 1, the word PLAYERS in small caps and a red 2. The lower edge shows two yellow strips each printed with four small black diamond arrowhead motifs. Condition good, with minor scuffing and a slight surface reflection across the upper centre, plus a small white sticker with handwritten dark text and a red underline pasted over the title.