Heat Wave

A cream-and-orange electro-mechanical playfield photographed through the glass, with metal lane guides and chrome ball guides catching the light. The whole surface is a fireball/thermometer motif: a large orange sunburst radiates from a grinning orange-faced clown head with wide eyes and a big yellow ruffled collar, positioned just right of centre under the upper plastics. Two cream triangular plastic shields sit at the top corners, each carrying a full-body cartoon jester in a pointed cap; the left jester wears a red-and-yellow costume, the right one a pink-and-white striped costume. Two more cream triangular shields sit lower down at left and right, decorated with a pink-and-white striped circus drum and a clown figure. A vertical ladder of lit inserts runs up the centre reading 500, 400, 300, 200, 100 POINTS, flanked by red arrow panels, cream SPECIAL WHEN LIT banners and teal-bordered point panels. Four round pop bumpers with numerals sit in an arc at the top under a curved TEMPERATURE ADVANCE banner, with a green/teal bumper above them. Two white flippers and two slingshots sit at the bottom, either side of a red UP TARGET arrow. The lower apron carries a cream instruction card, a BALLS PLAYED window, a QR code sticker and a small Williams script logo.

A brightly coloured beach-resort cartoon backglass. Across the upper third a huge title in slanted block capitals, red letters with a yellow inner highlight and white drop shadow, reads HEAT WAVE, over a green-yellow sky with radiating sunburst lines. To its left is a grinning anthropomorphic sun with a round red face, white spiky rays and a smiling mouth, and above it a small red script wordmark inside a white wing-like emblem. Upper left, white text on a yellow panel reads GAME OVER. Down the left side is a tall maroon thermometer-style gauge with a white segmented scale and a red column, flanked by stacked coloured temperature panels reading WARM, COOL and FRIGID in yellow, green and blue. Four mechanical score reels sit in a white framed window at right. The main scene shows a seaside pavilion and promenade: a woman in a red-and-white striped swimsuit, straw hat and white platform shoes holds a red-white-blue parasol; a bald man in a white shirt and yellow trousers holds a red-striped beach ball; a seated woman in a white floral dress and hat; a man in a hat holding a drink; a little girl in a yellow dress with two ice-cream cones; and a lounging man in a white vest and red shorts smoking a pipe. A red-coated figure stands at the right edge.