Hot Hand

A late-1960s electromechanical poker-themed playfield seen under warm yellow lamp light and a strong blue plastic cast from the lower plastics. The lower half is dominated by a large light-blue and cream diamond bearing a 2X BONUS and four dark-blue roundels reading 4X BONUS, 3X BONUS and 5X BONUS, with SHOOT AGAIN curved beneath. Either side sit two triangular yellow-lit inlane/outlane guides carrying SPECIAL banners and 10X ovals, plus vertical WHEN LIT slots scoring 500 and 3000. Across the centre is a 5x2 grid of playing-card drop targets showing spades, diamonds and club pips, backed by a yellow bar reading BONUS SCORES and 10,000 FOR EACH CARD. Above that are three round pop bumpers with translucent yellow caps and red heart inserts, a red arrow reading EXTRA BALL with WHEN LIT beneath, and a large circular spinner/bonus dial under a chrome wireform. Two pale flippers with pink rubber rings sit above a blue apron reading COLLECT FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY.

Illuminated backglass on a dark navy-to-black field crossed by broad swirling ribbons in magenta, teal, gold and cream. Top right: a huge three-dimensional title, HOT HAND, in chunky yellow-orange block capitals with red inline shading and a deep blue extruded 3D shadow, sitting on blue ice-like angular shards. To its right small white BY above a white rectangle reading STERN in black serif capitals. Centre-right: a fan of four large face-up playing cards tilted right, white-bordered, hearts suit, showing a red A of hearts, a red J, Q and K of hearts with yellow-and-blue court figures. Left column: four rectangular score windows in blue and maroon frames, each with orange seven-segment digits reading 33 0, and black spade shapes decorating the frames. Black spade badges read 1 UP, 2 UP, 3 UP in white; a red heart badge reads 4 UP in white. Bottom centre: HIGH GAME TO DATE in small orange capitals. Bottom right: GAME OVER in pink-red capitals above MATCH. Chips and coins scatter across the lower edge in orange, gold, teal and blue. Lower right corner has a small white artist signature.

A rectangular backglass in a pale yellow-gold cabinet frame, with a deep teal-green background overlaid by broad flowing rainbow swirls of pink, orange, yellow, pale blue and white ribbon that curl around the whole panel. Across the upper right sits the title HOT HAND in large slanted yellow-to-orange block capitals with a red outline and a heavy dark-blue drop shadow, set inside a white banner shape. The centre is dominated by a fan of four overlapping playing cards tilted diagonally: a red 10, a red Jack, a red Queen and a red King, each with a red heart pip and an ornate black-and-gold court-card figure. Down the left side are four horizontal player score panels stacked vertically, each framed in a card-suit patterned surround - player 1 in blue, player 2 in red, player 3 in blue, player 4 in red - each showing orange seven-segment digits 848600, with a black spade-shaped UP marker to the right of each panel and a small red heart badge above it. A red spade-shaped CREDITS marker at the lower left carries the vertical numerals 1 2 3 4 and the word CREDITS. At bottom centre are two smaller windows, 09 and 80, in orange digits. Red, blue and grey casino-style poker chips are scattered over the lower left and lower right, and GAME OVER is printed in red at the lower right. Condition: glass front shows a strong white reflection streak across the upper right and haze over the lower left.