Gridiron / Pro-Football

Full-length American-football pinball playfield, photographed top-down with the wood-grain cabinet rails and coin door visible at the bottom. The colour scheme is teal-green, tan-wood brown, purple, red and cream. Down the centre is a green American-football field with white yard lines and yard-number numerals (10, 20, 30, 40) printed along both sidelines, a large 'ALL STARS' banner across the top of the field and 'PROS' across the bottom end zone. A cartoon referee in a black-and-white striped shirt, black cap and white shoes stands mid-field with one arm raised, a brown leather football on a kicking tee beside him, and a cluster of four chunky helmeted players in red and light-blue jerseys grappling and carrying the ball lower down the field. Above the field sit two large white starburst pop-bumper caps each printed '1000', flanking a small scripted 'D. Gottlieb & Co.' logo above a row of five tiny marching players. Radiating red and yellow chevrons and ramps fan outwards from the bumpers. Two printed NFL-style players flank the mid-field drop-target banks: left a yellow-helmeted figure in a yellow-and-red uniform running right, right a yellow-helmeted figure in a red jersey numbered '1' running left. Yellow-and-black chequered 'TOUCHDOWN' banners sit at the top left and top right, with cream 'TOUCHDOWN' arrows lower down beside the outlanes. Cream position labels with red lettering name the flanker back, halfback, quarterback and fullback above the two flippers.

A cream-coloured pinball backglass, edges heavily crazed and scratched, with a large rectangular painted insert set inside a plain cream border. The insert is a busy comic-book American football scene in bright reds, yellows, blues and pink. Top left a black panel with white HIGH SCORE lettering above a white window showing 2 4 1 6 0. Top centre a grinning player in a light blue helmet with a red-white-blue stripe, next to a man in a white and blue helmet. Top right a tall player in a blue jersey numbered 47 and light blue trousers stands arms raised, beside a small red, white and blue star cluster and a large pointing hand. Centre left a yellow arrow sign reads Ball in Play over a referee in a black-and-white striped shirt and a crouching player wearing number 24. A blue oval logo at centre reads PRO FOOTBALL in red block letters with a white outline, with Copyright in white script above it, and yellow GAME OVER on a rainbow swoosh beneath. Lower half: two large helmeted players grappling, one in pink holding a brown football, the other in yellow-green, and at lower right a smiling blonde woman in a red top and white trousers with one arm raised, standing on a blue ball.

A painted American-football scorecard-style backglass on a dark teal-green field, with a black silhouetted crowd of raised arms and heads across the top edge. Two large cream score panels with yellow outlines sit at the upper left and upper right, mirrored: the left is headed HOME TEAM in blocky red-outlined capitals above four mechanical reels reading 48,000, the right VISITING TEAM above four reels reading 00,100. Each is flanked by a triangular pennant, red with five gold stars at top left and orange-and-magenta with a lightning bolt at top right. Diagonal ribbons reading POINTS in red capitals run down from each score panel toward the centre. A red arrow-shaped plaque in the middle holds a cream insert reading PLAYERS 1-OR-2 with CAN PLAY AT THE SAME TIME beneath, and below that two smaller reel windows read 18 and 00. The lower half is a tumbling scrum of roughly ten helmeted players: one in a light-blue jersey numbered 80, another numbered 35, a lunging figure in yellow trousers, a player in an orange jersey and white helmet flying horizontally to the right, and a fallen player at bottom right. Bottom-left lettering reads A GAME OF SKILL over a cursive Gottlieb's above the huge word GRIDIRON in orange-red block letters with a white outline. BALL IN PLAY is lettered at mid-right. Reflections and dust on the glass are visible.