Also known as GCP
1998 · Sega
Golden Cue
Dim smoky pool hall or amusement arcade, rows of pinball machines receding into darkness on the right, pool table with dark blue-green rail across the lower foreground and hanging lamps and dark panelled walls at the left.
- Year
- 1998
- Maker
- Sega
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Players
- 4
Made by
- Design
- Jon Norris
- Art
- Morgan Weistling
- Mechanics
- Rob Hurtado
- Software
- Lonnie D. Ropp
- Software
- Orin Day
- Music
- Kyle Johnson
- Display animation
- Kurt Andersen
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- gold
- black
- red
- blue
Fingerprint: Golden Cue billiards: brunette woman in low-cut red dress lunging across pool table with cue stretched out horizontally, glossy billiard balls on dark table rail including blue and red-and-white striped, gold serif capitals with 'TOURNAMENT EDITION' subtitle, pool hall with pinball machines in background.
A brunette woman in a low-cut red dress lunging across a pool table, cue stretched out horizontally in both hands, forming a strong diagonal across the whole panel. Beside her, glossy billiard balls sit on the dark table rail, including a blue-striped and a red-and-white-striped ball. The title is unusually long and plain: 'Golden Cue' in big gold serif capitals, with 'TOURNAMENT EDITION' in a small gold line beneath. A second, shadowy man in a checked shirt stands at the left edge in a dark smoky pool hall, and rows of pinball machines recede into the right-hand background. A white artist signature reading 'Kelley' is handwritten in the top left corner.
Setting
- Dim smoky pool hall or amusement arcade
- Rows of pinball machines receding into darkness on the right
- Pool table with dark blue-green rail across the lower foreground
- Hanging lamps and dark panelled walls at the left
Symbols
- Pool cue
- Billiard balls in blue, black and red-and-white stripe
- Pool table
- Rows of pinball machines in background
- Dot-matrix alphanumeric display below the artwork
- Small trade mark symbol
Lettering
- Large gold serif title capitals with dark outline and pale drop shadow, plus smaller gold sans-serif capitals beneath; white hand-lettered artist signature
Themes
- Billiards
- Snooker
- Pool hall
- Amusement arcade
- Tournament
- Pinball setting
Title on it
- Golden cue
Text on it
- Golden Cue
- TOURNAMENT EDITION
- Kelley
- SEGA
- ™
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | One slim adult brunette woman, shoulder-length hair, bare shoulders, low-cut sleeveless red/pink dress; leaning forward over the pool table, right hand gripping a pale wooden cue near her hip, left arm extended to the right along the cue, face turned down towards the table with a slight smile |
| Man | One adult man at the left background, standing upright, wearing a checked/plaid shirt and pale trousers, small and partly in shadow |
Photographed backglass of a pool-themed machine, printed on a rectangular panel with a thin dark border. The title 'Golden Cue' runs across the top in large gold serif letters with a dark outline and pale drop shadow, and the smaller gold word 'TOURNAMENT EDITION' sits under the 'Cue' end on the right. A white hand-drawn signature beginning 'Kelley' is scrawled in the upper left corner over the dark background. The central figure is one woman, a slim brunette with shoulder-length hair, wearing a sleeveless low-cut red/pink dress; she leans forward over a pool table, right arm extended, gripping a long pale wooden cue that runs diagonally from the lower left across to her outstretched left hand at the right. Behind her on the left a man in a checked shirt and pale trousers stands in a dim room; the right background is a dark smoky pool hall with rows of pinball machines receding to the right. Several glossy billiard balls in blue, black and red-and-white stripe sit on the dark blue-green table rail at the bottom. The art is soft-focus airbrushed realism, dominated by gold, black, dark blue and red.