Made by
- Design
- Harry Williams
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- yellow
- red
- white
Fingerprint: FUN HOUSE in fat white block letters on deep royal-blue field, enormous grinning clown head center white-faced with red-orange curly wig holding striped ruff with blue medallion, four color-coded player windows green orange red blue with mechanical reel numbers, circus train with green dragon-head locomotive hauling brown and orange carriages
The single most memorable element is the enormous grinning clown head dead centre, white-faced with a red-orange curly wig, holding a striped ruff with a round blue medallion pinned at the throat. Around it the four bright player windows are colour-coded (green, orange, red, blue) and labelled 1ST through 4TH PLAYER with three-digit mechanical reel numbers. The bottom strip is unusually literal: a full circus train whose locomotive is a green dragon head with a long yellow jaw and red tongue, hauling brown and orange carriages along a black rail. A red cursive maker script sits above the title, and the top corners hold two profile busts flanking the two white instruction cards.
Setting
- Flat royal-blue field
- Yellow and white striped circus tent band
- Small circus ring stage with clown performers
- Black railway track along the bottom edge
Symbols
- Striped circus tent valance
- Circus ring stage
- Numbered circles 1-4
- Coinless instruction cards
- Railway track
- Dragon-headed locomotive
- Three-digit reel number windows
Lettering
- Chunky white sans-serif block capitals with heavy black and blue drop shadows for the title; small red cursive script above it; hand-lettered red and black caps on white card panels; rounded yellow-outlined numerals for player numbers; curved yellow-on-blue ribbon banners for the player labels
Themes
- Circus
- Clown
- Funfair
- Mechanical reels
- Player four
- Train
- Dragon
Title on it
- Fun house
Text on it
- Williams
- FUN HOUSE
- 4 PLAYER
- 1 to 4
- CAN PLAY
- Smile!
- COMPETITION
- for more fun!
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 7 2 9
- 4 0 8
- 0 2 9
- 1 1 6
- 1ST PLAYER
- 2ND PLAYER
- 3rd PLAYER
- 4th PLAYER
- BALL PLAY
- DRACON LINE R.R.
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Creature | Giant grinning clown head, centre: white face, black arched brows, bulbous red nose, wide open red mouth with square white teeth, red-orange curly hair, blue-and-white eyes, striped ruff collar and a small round blue medallion at the throat |
| Man | Top left, pale bare-chested young man with short yellow-blond hair, shown in profile facing right |
| Woman | Top right, red-haired woman in a yellow top, shown in profile facing left |
| Creature | Bottom right, a green dragon head with a long yellow jaw, red tongue and white teeth forming the front of the circus train |
| Other | Two small clowns standing on the circus ring stage in the lower band, one in green-and-orange, one in blue |
| Vehicle | A circus train of brown and orange carriages with small wheels running left to right along the bottom |
A painted electro-mechanical-style backglass on a deep royal-blue field with a yellow-and-white striped circus tent band running across the lower third. Top centre: the word Williams in small red cursive above the huge arched title FUN HOUSE in fat white block letters with black and blue drop shadows, sitting on a yellow ribbon banner reading 4 PLAYER. Directly beneath, a large grinning clown head - white face, red-orange curly mane, arched black brows, bulbous nose, wide red mouth with square white teeth and red tongue - stares straight out, with a striped ruff collar and a small round blue medallion at its throat. Left and right of the head are two bust portraits: at far left a pale bare-chested young man with short yellow-blond hair in profile facing right, at far right a red-haired woman in a yellow top facing left. Each sits beside a white card panel: the left reads 1 to 4 CAN PLAY in red and black, the right reads Smile! COMPETITION for more fun! in red and black script. Four player windows are stacked down the sides: green 1ST PLAYER with reels 7 2 9, orange 2ND PLAYER with 4 0 8, red 3rd PLAYER with 0 2 9, blue 4th PLAYER with 1 1 6, each headed by a numbered circle 1-4. The lower band shows a circus train of decorated cars pulled by a green dragon head, a small stage with two clowns, and BALL PLAY on a green banner at bottom left with DRACON LINE R.R. lettered along the bottom border.