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1977 · Recel

Icarus

Radiating starburst rays, jagged rocky cliff face and sea or water band along the bottom.

Year
1977
Maker
Recel
Type
Electro-mechanical
Display
Score reels
Players
4

Vision analysis

On the backglass

Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.

Icarus backglass

Backglass

  • orange
  • blue
  • red
  • cream

Fingerprint: ICARUS: leaping dark-haired woman in bright red costume with yellow sash launching upward across jagged brown rock face; huge orange-yellow starburst with dark blue-green rays; four stacked mechanical reel windows occupying entire left half; red ribbon banner and striped band crossing top

Distinctive

The most memorable element is a leaping dark-haired woman in a bright red costume with a yellow sash, arms flung out, launching upward across a jagged brown rock face. Around her is a huge orange-and-yellow starburst with dark blue-green rays fanning out to the frame edges, and the tall white-and-red title ICARUS sits across the upper right of that burst. Four stacked mechanical score-reel windows, each preceded by a small yellow numbered badge, occupy the whole left half of the glass. A red ribbon banner and a yellow-and-black striped band sweep across the top left corner.

Setting

  • Radiating starburst rays
  • Jagged rocky cliff face
  • Sea or water band along the bottom

Symbols

  • Orange starburst with radiating rays
  • Red ribbon banner
  • Yellow-and-black diagonal striped band
  • Small yellow numbered squares 1-4
  • Reel digit windows
  • Rocky outcrop

Lettering

  • Tall condensed all-capital serif letters, white fill with thick red outline and dark drop shadow, slightly slanted, positioned upper right over the starburst

Themes

  • Sunburst
  • Flying figure
  • Cliff
  • Sea
  • Score reels
  • Orange and blue

Title on it

  • Icarus

Text on it

  • ICARUS
  • BANG
  • BONUS LETTER
  • PLAYER 1 2 3 4
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Dark-haired adult woman in a fitted bright red costume with a yellow sash, bare arms, one arm raised and the other outstretched, posed leaping or flying upward across brown rock; painted in flat outlined comic style
Full description

A rectangular backglass mounted in a pale cream/white plastic frame, the painted field radiating dark blue-green rays from a large orange-and-yellow starburst that fills the upper right. Over the starburst sits the word ICARUS in tall, slightly slanted, all-capital serif letters, white-filled with a heavy red outline and a dark drop shadow. The entire left half is taken up by four stacked horizontal mechanical score-reel windows, each a white rectangle showing black digits, with a small yellow numbered square (1, 2, 3, 4) at the left end of each row. Above the reels a red swooping ribbon banner and a yellow-and-black diagonal striped band cross the top left corner, with a small yellow sunburst wedge behind them. Lower centre is a painted woman: dark hair, a fitted bright red costume with a yellow sash, bare arms, one arm raised and the other flung out, posed leaping or flying upward across a jagged brown-and-ochre rocky cliff. A pale blue-grey band of water and darker blue sea run along the bottom edge, with white lettering on the lower band. The style is flat, hard-outlined printed illustration in a limited palette of orange, red, blue and cream.