Drop-A-Card / Pop-A-Card

A 1960s-style electro-mechanical playfield, photographed in the cabinet with wood rails and the coin door below. Dominant colour is a sea-green background, overlaid with a huge cream-and-yellow five-pointed starburst at centre and a red-and-yellow ribbon banner across the top carrying the title in chunky yellow block capitals with red shadow, flanked by two grinning harlequin heads in red-and-yellow diamond-patterned collars. A full-figure harlequin in a red, yellow and black diamond costume stands at the star's centre, arms out, holding a small wand, with a white ruff collar. Two round pop-bumper caps with red-and-white scalloped rims sit high on the playfield, each above a painted '50 POINTS or 500' caption. Down each side are cream plastic lanes and posts, 'SPECIAL When Lit' and '10 POINTS or 100 When Lit' rollovers, and red '500 POINTS' arrows. Two triangular lower inlays carry large painted card suits - red hearts and black clubs and spades. A cream 'ADVANCE BONUS' medallion with a red '100' disc sits on the star's lower point above a maker's signature cartouche. The bottom apron carries a blue instruction card, red FLIPPER BUTTONS text with blue arrows, and a yellow replay card.

A jester-and-playing-cards themed playfield shot through a glass top, dominated by a huge cream-white multi-pointed star spreading across a sea-green field, its points outlined in black and pointing down towards the drain. Around the star's upper arms sit mirrored jester and court-card figures: a grinning harlequin in a red-and-yellow diamond-patterned fool's cap and ruffled collar at top centre, and two large side-facing queens or kings with long flowing golden hair, crowned headgear and closed eyes, their names printed on red banners. The lower half is a symmetrical fan of black club and red heart card pips set into white triangular cutouts, flanked by clear ball guides. Across the top runs a row of white card tiles lettered 10, J, Q, K, A in red, with a yellow '100 POINTS' bar beneath. Two pop bumpers with white domed caps sit left and right of centre, a red disc reading 100 when lit glows on the right, and small red circles read 50 POINTS. Yellow lightning-bolt arrows read WOW When Lit 1000 POINTS. Two flippers with white bats and blue FLIPPER labels stand above a bare varnished wood lower panel.

A rounded-rectangle backglass panel with a plain cream outer border, photographed at an angle so a wooden floor and the cabinet's red-and-white chevron stripes show below. The artwork background is bright turquoise-teal with a fine dotted texture. Top left is a printed score window in a black frame, white reel digits reading 1 3,430. Across the centre-left, three playing-card court figures crowd together: a king in a red robe and red-and-gold crown raising a black club card, a queen in a green gown with a spiked red-and-gold crown and orange hair holding a small card, and a grinning second crowned figure behind them. Playing cards tumble down the right side, face-up showing red diamonds and black spades. Centre-lower is an ornate rosette medallion with red-and-gold script inside a green oval, carrying the big yellow-gold block title CARD KING on a maroon, gold-edged banner. The right edge holds a tall fanned column of cards like a white-and-black spade waterfall over red and gold ornament. Style is dense 1970s airbrushed comic illustration in teal, red, gold and white.

A painted card-and-jester backglass set in a cream wooden cabinet surround. Composition is diagonal: a huge crowned king bust in red, white and gold patterned robes occupies the right half, holding a fanned hand of playing cards low in frame, while a queen figure stands left of centre in a red-and-gold crown and green-trimmed dress, holding a single playing card upright and a small three-headed flower. Behind them at upper left a grinning jester in a red-and-yellow ruff and pointed motley cap leans over a cream rectangular reel window, one arm flung wide, with playing cards tumbling from his mouth across a teal sky. At the far left a striped red-and-white jester in a crown grins while holding up a single card. The background is flat teal at the top, with a dark red, orange, black and yellow zig-zag tapestry pattern and a pale spotted card-like form filling the lower right. A large ornate oval logo panel sits low centre, reading DROP-A-CARD in fat yellow block capitals inside a red banner, with a cursive name above it and a small maker plaque below. Faint pencilled numbers are on the cream border.

A photographed backglass/translite insert with a cream cardboard surround and two blue painted arrows at the bottom margin. The art panel is a flat bright blue background packed with playing-card graphics. Upper left is a black rectangular window housing five mechanical score reels reading 0 0 , 5 7 0, with a small blank white label above it. Centre-left stand two crowned playing-card royalty figures: a king in a red-and-white striped robe with yellow crown, smiling and holding a single card aloft, and beside him a crowned woman in a red-and-gold gown with long blonde hair and blue eye shadow, fanning a hand of cards. Dominating the right half is an enormous court figure of the ace of spades, a king of clubs with a tall red-and-gold crown, white curled wig, moustache and goatee, wearing a black-spotted ermine robe over red and gold, one hand raised and the other resting on a card. Above the score window a grinning jester in a red-and-yellow fool's cap bursts through a gold starburst, arm outstretched. Cards of mixed suits scatter diagonally across the blue field, and a red-and-gold sunburst medallion fills the lower left. The title is a red script name above large yellow block capitals on a maroon banner, with a row of ten numbered panels beneath.

A painted card-themed backglass on a teal-blue ground, framed by a cream speckled cabinet edge. Four crowned playing-card court figures crowd the art: at right a large king in a white ermine-spotted robe with a grey beard, orange face and a red-and-gold crown; at left a grinning king in a red crown holding a single playing card aloft; centre a queen with orange face, red lips, black hair and a small gold crown, raising a sprig of three yellow flowers. Above them a jester in a red-and-yellow ruff throws playing cards that scatter down the centre of the glass. A white mechanical score window reading 57,800 sits in a black rounded rectangle at upper left. Lower centre a brown banner carries the title in fat yellow block capitals with red shadow. Below it a row of numerals 1 through 10 in yellow, and a small white plate of tiny print at lower right.