High Hand / Capt. Card

A photographed two-player electro-mechanical pinball playfield, framed by the cabinet's cream-painted apron and a plexiglass sheet whose reflections wash pale bands across the wood. The artwork is a playing-card theme on a hot magenta-red ground: a fan of five giant white cards with black, red and blue suit pips sits dead centre, radiating over a gold starburst. Four white-fletched pop-bumper caps form a wide arc above it, flanked by two more below the cards. Down each upper flank runs a long diagonal red-and-white striped rail, with upright cream posts and jester figures in conical striped hats at the top left and top right. Two more decorated jester/clown figures in pointed hats sit low on the left and right at roughly the mid-lower playfield, outlined in cream and teal. Bright yellow and cyan triangular colour wedges fan out from the centre toward the two lower corners, carrying black 'BONUS VALUE' lettering. Blue '100 POINTS PER LETTER 1000' captions and red 'SPECIAL' captions repeat symmetrically on both sides. Near the top centre is a cream circular '1000' badge above a red-white '1000 POINTS WHEN LIT' panel. The lower deck is bare varnished wood with two white flipper bats, flanked by cream instruction cards, a blue double-headed arrow and red 'INSERT COIN ONLY WHEN COIN ENTRANCE IS LIT' text.

Full-length view of an electro-mechanical playfield inside a wooden backbox, photographed from above with the glass lid on, so a bright blue LED reflection bar runs horizontally across the middle. The upper third is dominated by painted Egyptian-style architecture: two cream-and-red colonnaded temple facades with rows of black spade markings, flanking a central tall red figure or mask with two tall vertical panel shapes and a small round score window above it. Below that sits a white oval printed '1000' flanked by red, with a '1000' inside a red rectangle on each side wall. The centre of the playfield is a magenta-pink field carrying a large fan of overlapping white playing cards, each showing a pip and a letter or numeral, plus separate blue and yellow card panels and small printed diamonds, clubs, spades and hearts. A pale blue roundel in the middle reads '10X WHEN LIT'. Two chrome-edged ramps with white-and-red striped side rails descend from the upper left and upper right, and two white rubber-tipped flippers point up-and-inward over a cream apron. Teal bands printed 'BONUS VALUE' run along both lower sides. A white instruction card with dense black rules text is glued to the lower-left apron, and a blue double-headed arrow reads 'FLIPPER BUTTONS ON SIDE OF CABINET'.

A painted, airbrushed card backglass with a purple-and-teal spiral-vortex background. Top left carries a small white cursive word with dark outline above the huge title 'HIGH HAND' in tall slanted block capitals, orange-red fill with a yellow inner edge and cream drop shadow, the letters arranged on an arc and fanning downward as white-and-black tapered rays. A spiral of yellow-green speckled spheres curls down the left side. Scattered across both flanks and behind the figure are tumbling oversized playing cards showing hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, several with illustrated court-card faces. Centre-right stands one woman in a yellow-orange space suit with a red stripe, black shorts, a domed helmet with a pink-and-magenta reflective visor, red gloves and red boots with white crosses; she crouches with knees bent, leaning forward and looking down at a small card held in her raised hand, a wide grin on her face. Bottom centre a jagged red-and-yellow rock formation rises like a stepped pyramid. A cream four-window score panel at top right reads 38,020, with a small square tile and stacked white 'BALL IN PLAY' over a cream signature box below it.

Tall portrait-format painted backglass in a psychedelic airbrushed style. The background is a swirling marbled wash of teal, turquoise, violet and purple, overlaid with a huge pale ghostly female face in left profile across the upper half, its white hair and features dissolving into the swirl. Down the left and centre runs a curling spiral of large glossy yellow spheres, like a string of balls or beads. Scattered across the artwork are oversized playing cards - a king, an ace, a card showing the ace of spades and one showing the ace of clubs, plus hearts - tumbling over the figure and the background. At upper right sits a rectangular score window with a heavy black frame and a white face showing dark roller-drum digits reading 0 0,0 0 0. Centre stage a man in a vivid red suit crouches hunched forward, head down, one hand raised to his brow, the other braced on his knee. Lower right, above a red draped surface, white lettering reads BALLS TO PLAY. The title TOP HAND is stamped in large white block capitals across the lower centre.

Illuminated rectangular backglass with a purple and teal spiral vortex background, framed by cream card-suit decals on a white outer panel (black club top-left, black spade top-right, red diamond mid-left, red heart mid-right, black tapered wedges at both side edges). Top-left carries a bright green TILT block beside cursive Gottlieb's, over the large arched-and-slanted title CAPT. CARD in red letters with yellow fill and black outline, stacked diagonally. A fan of roughly twenty gold coins erupts downward and left from behind the title. Centre-right a single crouching female showgirl in red-orange costume, wide-brimmed red hat, orange-yellow patterned leggings and pink shoes, lit by a bright red lamp. Playing cards scatter across the right side, several face-up showing court cards and a spade ace. A black rectangular score window at top-right holds a mechanical 12,700 readout; a yellow PREVIOUS HIGH SCORE window sits below it. Along the bottom a red-brown diagonal striped ramp runs behind a row of ten red boxes numbered 1 to 10, with a yellow GAME OVER panel at lower left and a yellow BALLS TO PLAY panel at lower right.

Vertically oriented painted backglass on a swirling concentric background of violet, magenta and sky-blue rings radiating from a point just left of centre, with pale sunburst rays. A huge fanned burst of cream-white tapered streaks (like a spray of coins or trumpeting light) fills the upper half, topped at top-left by large slanted block capitals in red with a thick yellow-gold outline and drop shadow, reading as a single bold word; the letters splay outward along the top. Dozens of round gold/yellow coins with darker rims scatter and arc through the burst, many tumbling down toward the lower left. At centre-right a jester or magician figure in a red costume with yellow trim and a red cap leans forward, fanned playing cards spilling from his hands. Face cards (kings and aces) and number cards float across the blue field to the right of the burst. Bottom left holds a cluster of shaded yellow-olive spheres like moons or planets plus a pale grey-blue one. A fan of red and dark striped rods rises from the bottom centre. A white rectangular score window with a heavy black frame sits top-right, and a small white signature plaque is at bottom-right.