1996 · Capcom
Flipper Football
Known for Goalie drop targets, Upper flippers, Center drain and Timed match. Open stadium bowl, pale blue sky with white clouds, dark purple spectator stands with white light spots and curved running track edge.
- Year
- 1996
- Maker
- Capcom
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Players
- 6
Known for
- Drop target
Goalie drop targets
- extra flipper
Upper flippers
- drain
Center drain
- Mode
Timed match
On the playfield
Drop target 1
- Goalie drop targets
Flippers 2
- Upper flippers extra flipper
- Lower flippers
Display 1
- Soccer-ball display
Other 1
- Center drain drain
On the backglass
Who and what
- woman One female footballer, young adult, light skin, mid-dive header with body horizontal across the panel and head inverted at centre facing the viewer; long brown hair fanning out in separate strands; flushed cheeks, wide eyes, open mouth; yellow-and-olive camouflage long-sleeved jersey with purple shoulder and elbow panels, purple shorts, orange socks, white boots; one foreshortened yellow-and-orange boot with lime-green sole fills the bottom centre, the other booted leg kicks up into the upper right corner
Setting
- Open stadium bowl
- Pale blue sky with white clouds
- Dark purple spectator stands with white light spots
- Curved running track edge
Text on it
- CAPCOM
- FLIPPER FOOTBALL
- TM
- H. VanZanten
- FLIPPER FOOTBALL™ & ©
- CAPCOM CORP. INC.
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
- AN00219
How it plays
-
Modes 1
- Timed match
Made by
- Design
- Bryan Hansen
- Design
- Python Anghelo
- Art
- Hugh Van Zanten
- Sound
- Jeff Powell
Reference
Linked terms
- Goalie drop targets also called Goalie bank
- Upper flippers also called Attacking flippers
- Center drain also called Own goal
- Timed match also called Player vs. game also called Versus play also called Head-to-head or team play
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- green
- blue
- yellow
- black
Fingerprint: Colossal painted woman footballer in yellow-and-green hooped shirt diagonally spanning entire upper playfield, long blonde hair and extended arm. FOOTBALL logo title with two O's rendered as stitched footballs in black outline. Green pitch with white penalty-box lines crowded with roughly a dozen painted players. Football soccer theme, bright green and blue.
A colossal painted woman footballer in a yellow-and-green hooped shirt lies diagonally across the entire upper playfield, her head and long blonde hair at the top left, dwarfing everything below her. The title logo spells its first word with two footballs standing in for the letter O. Dozens of small painted players in mixed kits are scattered across a real green football pitch with white penalty-box lines. Two black plastic ramp/ball-guide tunnels flank the lower playfield, funnelling the ball to a pair of magenta-and-navy flippers.
Setting
- Outdoor football stadium pitch
- Painted sky-blue banner area
- Green grass pitch with white markings
Symbols
- Footballs used as letter o in the logo
- Stitched ball graphics
- Arrow-shielded crests with football motifs
- Confetti blobs
- White pitch line markings
Notable shapes
- Two black enclosed ball-guide tunnels on the lower left and right
- Green rubber-covered triangular guide wedges flanking the lower playfield
- A wire-frame goal structure at upper left
- Arrow-topped shield decals on the side rails
Art motifs
- Action sports photography style painted figures
- Hard-edged cartoon outlines
- Diagonal action composition
Themes
- Football
- Soccer
- Sport
- Players
- Pitch
Title on it
- Football
Text on it
- FOOTBALL
- TEAM FOOTBALL
- I GETTONI VINTI NON SONO CONVERTIBILI IN DENARO MA POSSONO ESSERE RISCOCATI NEGLI APPARECCHI.
- ANGELI
- STARK
- NOVELTY
- CAPER
- 8
- 2
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Giant painted female footballer in a yellow and green hooped shirt, long blonde hair, sprawled diagonally across the upper playfield with one arm extended |
| Man | Male outfield player in dark blue/black kit with number 8 on the back, arms spread, upper left of the pitch |
| Man | Player in a red-and-black striped shirt with white shorts, standing left of centre |
| Man | Player in a black kit lunging low, mid-left |
| Man | Player in a dark shirt running rightward at centre, arm forward |
| Man | Two players contesting the ball just right of centre, one in dark blue and one in white |
| Man | Player in a white shirt with dark shorts, right side |
| Man | Goalkeeper diving flat, arms outstretched, right side in a light blue/grey kit |
| Man | Player with number 2 on his back in a dark shirt, standing centrally just above the flippers |
| Man | Player in a maroon/dark red kit lunging diagonally near the lower centre |
| Man | Player in a black kit with blue trim lower left, arm extended |
| Man | Player in a black kit with blue trim lower right, mirrored pose |
| Man | Smaller players clustered around the upper centre circle and near the goal mouths |
Full-length view down a football (soccer) themed pinball playfield, lit by blue and green LEDs against a bright green pitch. The upper third is a sky-blue banner carrying a big chunky title logo reading FOOTBALL in block capitals, the two letter O's drawn as stitched footballs, with a heavy yellow drop shadow and a purple shadow layer beneath, plus small cursive script below. Above and behind the logo a huge painted female footballer in a yellow and green hooped shirt leans diagonally across the whole upper playfield, her long blonde hair sweeping left and her arm thrown forward. The green pitch below is printed with white penalty-box markings, a centre circle and halfway line, and is crowded with roughly a dozen painted male players in various dark, white and striped kits, plus a goalkeeper diving flat on the right. Two magenta-and-navy flippers sit low centre above a black wire ball-return gate, with green rubber-triangle guides and slingshots either side. Colourful confetti-like blobs of pink, yellow and blue float over the pitch. A white instruction card with a football crest border is taped to the lower-left of the playfield.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- purple
- yellow
- blue
- black
Fingerprint: "FLIPPER FOOTBALL CAPCOM": female footballer mid-dive header body horizontal with long brown hair fanning, enormous yellow-and-orange boot with green sole foreground, stadium stands with confetti
A single female footballer frozen in a full-length diving header, drawn upside-down with her long hair fanning out and one enormous foreshortened yellow boot with a lime-green sole thrust into the bottom centre of the frame. The two footballs that replace the double-O in the word FOOTBALL are stitched into the logo itself. A giant cropped black-and-white ball intrudes from the right edge opposite the logo, bracketing the composition. Multicoloured confetti is scattered across the whole panel against pale blue stadium sky and dark purple stands. Tiny artist signature in the lower left just above the copyright block.
Setting
- Open stadium bowl
- Pale blue sky with white clouds
- Dark purple spectator stands with white light spots
- Curved running track edge
Symbols
- Three black-and-white footballs
- Footballs forming the double-o of the title
- Multicoloured confetti rectangles and streamers
- Stadium floodlight spots
Lettering
- Chunky block capitals, purple upper line and yellow-to-orange gradient lower line, thick black outlines and drop shadows, trademark tm at the end
Themes
- Association football
- Women's sport
- Stadium
- Diving header
- Celebration
- Confetti
Title on it
- Flipper football
Text on it
- CAPCOM
- FLIPPER FOOTBALL
- TM
- H. VanZanten
- FLIPPER FOOTBALL™ & ©
- CAPCOM CORP. INC.
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
- AN00219
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | One female footballer, young adult, light skin, mid-dive header with body horizontal across the panel and head inverted at centre facing the viewer; long brown hair fanning out in separate strands; flushed cheeks, wide eyes, open mouth; yellow-and-olive camouflage long-sleeved jersey with purple shoulder and elbow panels, purple shorts, orange socks, white boots; one foreshortened yellow-and-orange boot with lime-green sole fills the bottom centre, the other booted leg kicks up into the upper right corner |
A horizontally framed sports backglass: a single female footballer is depicted mid-dive, body floating head-low across the middle of the panel with her head tipped upside-down towards the viewer, long brown hair fanning out in individual strands. She wears a yellow-and-olive camouflage-pattern long-sleeved jersey with purple shoulder and elbow panels, purple shorts, orange socks with ribbed cuffs, and white boots; a huge yellow-and-orange boot with a bright green sole and heel dominates the bottom-centre foreground in extreme foreshortening, while her other booted leg kicks up into the upper right corner. Her face has flushed cheeks, wide eyes looking at the viewer and an open mouth. Behind her is a pale blue stadium sky with soft white clouds, curving tiers of dark purple-black spectator stands with white rectangular light spots, and drifts of multicoloured confetti in yellow, green, magenta, red, orange and cream. Two black-and-white footballs sit in the upper left as part of the title, and a much larger black-and-white football is cropped at the right edge. Bold comic-book airbrushed artwork in purple, yellow, cyan and black.
Backglass
- blue
- purple
- yellow
- orange
Fingerprint: FLIPPER FOOTBALL title with two footballs replacing O letters in purple and yellow logo, plunging goalkeeper with long brown hair and tiny moustache mid-dive reaching upside-down toward yellow glove, striped jersey in yellow-green tones, massive stadium crowd in purple shadows at bottom filling space with confetti and red-orange streamers, bold airbrushed comic style with heavy black inking, pale blue sky
The most memorable element is a giant goalkeeper diving sideways through the air, his face upside-down and centre-frame with a tiny moustache and long flailing hair, one hand swallowed by an enormous yellow padded glove that reaches for a ball at the top right. The second strong hook is the title logo, where the two O letters of FOOTBALL are replaced by a pair of black-and-white panel footballs, with the word CAPCOM tucked in tiny above the purple FLIPPER letters. Also striking is the bottom third being entirely a speckled mass of crowd, with confetti and red/orange paper streamers raining across it.
Setting
- Open sky with white clouds and stadium floodlight glow
- Packed stadium crowd rendered as speckled texture
- Football pitch implied below the crowd
Symbols
- Football
- Goalkeeper glove
- Confetti
- Paper streamers
- Floodlights
- Crowd
Lettering
- Chunky three-dimensional block logo with heavy black outline and drop shadow; flipper in purple capitals, football in white capitals with the two os rendered as black-and-white panel footballs; the f is oversized and overlaps the first o; small purple sans-serif capcom wordmark set above
Themes
- Football
- Soccer
- Goalkeeper
- Stadium
- Sports
- Crowd
- Confetti
Title on it
- Flipper football
Text on it
- FLIPPER FOOTBALL
- CAPCOM
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | One male footballer/goalkeeper, young adult, light skin, long brown hair swept back by motion and a small dark moustache, drawn with head near centre-frame and upside down, diving horizontally to his right with both arms outstretched. he wears a yellow-and-green marbled/leaf-patterned long-sleeve jersey, dark navy shorts, orange socks banded green and blue, and orange boots with green trim. his expression is wide-eyed and open-mouthed, focused on the ball. his right hand is inside a huge yellow-orange padded goalkeeper glove reaching to the upper right; his left hand wears a matching glove. |
| Vehicle | A classic black-and-white panel football tucked into the extreme top right corner, cropped by the glass edge. |
| Other | Two smaller black-and-white footballs used as letterforms inside the word football in the top left logo. |
Backglass artwork dominated by a single male footballer/goalkeeper diving horizontally head-first across a packed stadium, in a bold airbrushed comic style with heavy black ink outlines and flat saturated colour. He occupies the centre band: his head near the middle with long brown hair swept back and a small moustache, both arms thrown wide, one reaching up to the top right into a large yellow-orange padded goalkeeper glove that catches a black-and-white panel football at the top right corner. He wears a mottled yellow-and-green patterned long-sleeve jersey, dark navy shorts, orange socks banded green and blue, and orange boots with green trim. The bottom third is a dense speckled crowd of tiny heads in dark purple, mauve and grey, strewn with confetti in orange, yellow, green, white and purple, plus red and orange paper streamers drifting down the right. The upper half is pale blue sky with white cloud banks and floodlight glows. Top left carries a chunky three-dimensional logo in purple, yellow and white, with a tiny CAPCOM wordmark above it.