1981 · Game Plan
Global Warfare
Black starfield with white star specks, mottled red-orange textured band across the top edge, blue planet upper left with green ringed planet, large yellow wedge of light fanning from the left and green and teal panelled spacecraft hull in the lower left.
- Year
- 1981
- Maker
- Game Plan
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Alphanumeric
- Players
- 4
Made by
- Design
- Roger Sharpe
- Design
- Ed Cebula
- Art
- John Trudeau
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- black
- yellow
- red
- blue
Fingerprint: GLOBAL WARFARE in enormous italic red capitals with yellow outline slicing through huge white starburst explosion splitting backglass diagonally, blue-white rocket craft streaking toward enormous yellow wedge of light on black starfield, red segmented score windows with yellow and grey bezels, green-teal panelled spacecraft hull, GamePlan logo
The single most memorable element is the enormous italic title GLOBAL WARFARE in red capitals with a yellow outline, sliced through by a huge white starburst explosion that splits the whole backglass in two. Behind it, blue-and-white rocket craft streak diagonally across a black starfield towards a huge yellow wedge of light. A distinctive red logo reading GamePlan with the small caption AN A&S COMPANY sits just above the title. Red segmented score windows with bright yellow and grey bezels are scattered at the upper left, upper right and along the bottom, and a pale green panelled spacecraft hull fills the lower left corner.
Setting
- Black starfield with white star specks
- Mottled red-orange textured band across the top edge
- Blue planet upper left with green ringed planet
- Large yellow wedge of light fanning from the left
- Green and teal panelled spacecraft hull in the lower left
Symbols
- White starburst explosion
- Blue planet
- Green ringed planet
- Rocket and aircraft shapes
- Speed lines
- Small green planet
- Red score windows
- White star specks
- Orange sphere
- Small yellow circle
Lettering
- Very large italic bold sans-serif capitals, red fill with a yellow outline and white inner highlight, slightly angled across the centre; the smaller gameplan wordmark is a rounded red/orange logotype with a dark outline above a tiny pale-yellow uppercase company line
Themes
- Space war
- Space combat
- Rocket battle
- Explosion
- Starfield
- Planet
Title on it
- Global warfare
Text on it
- GLOBAL WARFARE
- GamePlan
- AN A&S COMPANY
- PLAYER
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- Game
- pinside.com
A dynamic space-combat backglass, split diagonally into two zones. The upper two-thirds is a black starfield with small white star specks, a blue planet upper left, green and red orbital rings, and a large mottled red-orange textured mass across the top edge. A dramatic white-and-yellow starburst explosion erupts from the centre, sending speed lines outward; several sleek blue-and-white rocket or aircraft shapes with pointed noses streak diagonally across the field. A huge yellow wedge of light fans from the left towards the centre-right. The lower-left third is a green and teal panelled structure resembling a spacecraft hull or control panel, with white rails, a yellow caption bar of small unreadable print, and purple and orange details. Multiple red rectangular score/display windows with grey or yellow bezels are set into the art: one upper left, one upper right, and three along the bottom edge. The title reads GLOBAL WARFARE in huge italic block capitals, red with a yellow outline and white highlight, running across the centre.