1968 · Chicago Coin
Gun Smoke
Flat open prairie of pink-tan sand, pale turquoise sky with one small white cloud, distant blue mesas and low hills, scattered frontier buildings and telegraph poles and yellow wooden fence rail across the lower third.
- Year
- 1968
- Maker
- Chicago Coin
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 2
Made by
- Design
- Ed Sermonti
- Design
- Albin Peters
- Art
- Christian Marche
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- pink
- turquoise
- yellow
- red
Fingerprint: Grinning cowboy dead center straw hat red shirt revolver, framed by four other armed men firing sides, five white cloud-shaped value bubbles 500-50 down right side, GUN SMOKE yellow-orange slanted capitals red shading, Chicago Coin's yellow cursive, two black swallow-tailed banners with reel windows 1ST PLAYER and 2ND PLAYER stacked left, yellow fence rail lower third, pink-sand prairie
A grinning cowboy in a straw hat and red shirt standing dead centre with a revolver, framed by four other armed men all firing off to the sides. Five white cloud-shaped value bubbles (500, 300, 200, 100, 50) cascade down the right-hand side in blue numerals. The title 'GUN SMOKE' sits under 'Chicago Coin's' in large yellow-orange slanted capitals against a turquoise sky. Two black swallow-tailed banners carry four-digit reel windows for 1ST and 2ND PLAYER, stacked down the left side. A yellow wooden fence rail runs across the lower third, in front of which two gunmen crouch and fire.
Setting
- Flat open prairie of pink-tan sand
- Pale turquoise sky with one small white cloud
- Distant blue mesas and low hills
- Scattered frontier buildings and telegraph poles
- Yellow wooden fence rail across the lower third
Symbols
- Six-shooter revolvers
- Cowboy hats
- Horseback riders
- Cloud-shaped value bubbles
- Mechanical reel score windows in black banners
- Telegraph poles
- Yellow fence rail
Lettering
- Large slanted sans-serif block capitals in yellow-orange with red inline shading and dark outline; 'chicago coin's' in yellow cursive script above; banner headings in gold capitals with red shadow; value numerals in slanted blue sans-serif
Themes
- Wild west
- Gunfight
- Cowboys
- Prairie
- Frontier
- Shoot-out
Title on it
- Gun smoke
Text on it
- Chicago Coin's
- GUN SMOKE
- 1ST PLAYER
- 0 0 0 0
- 2ND PLAYER
- 1 OR 2
- PLAYERS
- ITS FUN
- TO
- COMPETE
- 500
- 300
- 200
- 100
- 50
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Central cowboy, straw hat, red shirt, blue-trimmed vest, blue jeans, holster at hip, wide grin, right hand on hip, revolver in left hand |
| Man | Left of centre, blue shirt and wide-brimmed hat, leaning forward firing a revolver to the left |
| Man | Lower left, crouching behind the fence rail, brown hat, spotted/light shirt, aiming a gun left |
| Man | Right edge, green hat and blue shirt, in profile firing a pistol leftward |
| Man | Far right, tan hat and brown coat, partly hidden, firing a pistol leftward |
| Animal | Dark brown horse galloping in the mid-left background, riderless |
| Other | Several small mounted riders on horses across the background plain |
A transomed Western gunfight backglass set in a flat pink-sand prairie under a pale turquoise sky with a small white cloud and distant blue mesas. Across the top, 'Chicago Coin's' appears in yellow cursive script, above the big title 'GUN SMOKE' in slanted block capitals coloured yellow-orange with red shading and a dark outline. Upper left is a black swallow-tailed banner reading '1ST PLAYER' in gold-and-red lettering above four white reels showing 0 0 0 0; below it a matching banner reads '2ND PLAYER' above four reels showing 0 0 0 0. The centre foreground is dominated by a grinning cowboy in a straw hat, red shirt, blue-trimmed vest and blue jeans, right hand on his hip and a revolver in his left. He is ringed by four other armed men: one in a blue shirt and hat firing left across a yellow fence rail, one crouching at lower left in a spotted shirt, and two at the right edge firing pistols. Small horseback riders, a riderless galloping horse, telegraph poles and low buildings fill the background. Down the right side, five white cloud-shaped value bubbles read 500, 300, 200, 100 and 50 in blue. A red panel lower left reads '1 OR 2 PLAYERS / ITS FUN TO COMPETE'.