F-14 Tomcat

Full-length military jet-fighter themed playfield, dark navy-blue sky background scattered with orange flame bursts and black smoke plumes. A huge blue-grey swept-wing fighter jet points straight up the centre from the lower middle, its nose aimed at a circular green-teal radar/target disc ringed in red. Four more painted jets surround it: two pale blue-grey jets angled up the centre-left and centre-right lanes, and two large yellow-and-red jets in the lower left and lower right quadrants flying inboard over brick-red and gold geometric wing panels. The word TOMCAT is painted in blocky orange-and-yellow letters on the upper centre, over a red circular insignia, with a small red two-eyed cartoon face/goggles motif directly beneath it. Chrome wireform ramps and habitrails crisscross the upper third; a cluster of pop bumpers sits top-centre including a large orange-red mushroom bumper. Lower centre has a red pop bumper between two plain light-coloured flippers, an orange disc reading FLY AGAIN, and a red curved band carrying the artist signature STEVE RITCHIE. Yellow LED text on black panels at both lower corners reads HOLD FLIPPER BUTTON FOR STATUS REPORT. Two large white instruction cards with dense black serif text occupy the bottom, flanking a round yellow-and-red crown emblem. Condition: playfield is covered by a wrinkled clear plastic overlay creating heavy reflections and hazy glare.

Painted air-combat backglass dominated by a huge blue-and-yellow fighter jet seen from below and in front, banking steeply down towards the lower left with its black radome nose thrust into the foreground. The aircraft has swept wings with red leading-edge stripes, twin vertical tails, a pale blue bubble canopy showing a dark cockpit interior, and white smoke trails curling off its wingtips. Behind it a colossal orange, yellow and white explosion bursts across the centre, with black smoke blotches and three small dark aircraft silhouettes tumbling inside the fireball. The lower half is filled with churning red-brown and charcoal storm cloud, while the right side opens onto a deep blue sea and sky with four slim pale-blue missiles or contrails streaking downwards. Upper left is filled with grey-white smoke plumes. Across the top sits a black triangular badge edged in white and light blue, carrying the title in big red block letters with white and black outlines: F-14 over TOMCAT, backed by horizontal yellow stripes. Four small yellow-orange aircraft or missile silhouettes are stacked in the upper right corner. The style is bright, saturated 1970s-80s airbrush illustration with heavy black outlines.