Hot Wheels

Full-length view of an electro-mechanical racing-game playfield, photographed in a cabinet with the chrome front rail and apron below and two red-digit score windows visible under the apron. The art is bright, flat, hand-painted airbrush in red, yellow, blue, white and green. The upper third is a deep blue/purple field with black-and-white chequered flags flanking a gold arch on which white circles numbered 1 to 8 run round the curve; three large gold-rimmed pop-bumper caps sit in a triangle, each with a white numeral (1, 2, 3) on a green fan/sunburst background, sitting in pink and yellow flames. Below them a red open-wheel racing car faces down the field. Centre playfield has a cream plaque reading SPECIAL / WHEN FLASHING, with a gold trophy cup bearing a red shield marked 1, flanked by blue panels marked III and II. Left of centre a green infield holds a looping dirt race track with a pack of about ten brightly coloured formula cars (red, pink, blue, yellow, orange, green) and white oval value discs 1,000 up to 20,000. Right of centre a large yellow-and-red arrow reads SPECIAL with 10,000 POINTS, WHEN LIT and ADVANCE BONUS. The lower playfield is dominated by red and yellow flames, two white flippers, a yellow circle reading SAME PLAYER WHEN LIT SHOTS AGAIN, and blue/white/black chevron panels in both bottom corners. Cream instruction cards and a blue QR repair label sit on the apron.

A brightly coloured motorsport-themed backglass in a white cabinet frame, drawn in a bold comic-book/cel-shaded painted style with heavy black outlines. A huge slanted logo of chunky white block letters covered in yellow, orange and red flames stretches diagonally from the middle-left up to the centre, outlined in black, with a red and magenta striped racing flag tucked into the top of the letters. Behind the logo a fan of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and magenta sunburst rays radiates from the top centre. Four racing drivers and a blonde woman lean over a green laurel wreath hung with a red-and-white ribbon at the top centre, between big white player numerals 1 and 2. Below, four open-wheel racing cars charge towards the viewer: a red-and-white car with a long pointed nose in the lower left foreground, a blue car with a yellow number 5 behind it, a dark blue/black car, and a red car in the upper right. A black-and-white chequered flag sweeps across the lower right. Red seven-segment displays read all zeros, with credit and match windows, a yellow-green lane grid, a magenta band along the bottom and a green grandstand crowd in the distance.