1976 · Komputer Dynamics
Invasion Strategy
Hong kong street receding to a central vanishing point, rows of pink, green and yellow shophouses with shuttered windows, pale blue sky with distant blue hills and wooden cabinet frame surrounding and cropping the glass.
- Year
- 1976
- Maker
- Komputer Dynamics
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Alphanumeric
- Players
- 2
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- red
- pink
- yellow
Fingerprint: HONG KONG: Blonde woman in light blue blouse seated in pink hooded rickshaw with gold trim, busy street scene, tall payout ladder down left with numerals stacked like totem, bingo card upper right, painted interior scene.
The most memorable element is a blonde pin-up woman sitting in the hood of a bright pink-and-yellow covered rickshaw that dominates the lower centre, directly in front of the giant red HONG KONG lettering. Nearly as distinctive is the tall cream MILLIONS payout ladder running down the left third of the glass, its red-to-green numerals stacked like a totem pole. A magenta bingo card of fifteen cream circles with blue numerals fills the upper right corner. The scene around them is a busy Hong Kong street of pastel shophouses, shophouse signs, cars, small pedestrians and a second red rickshaw with a straw-hatted puller and a passenger.
Setting
- Hong kong street receding to a central vanishing point
- Rows of pink, green and yellow shophouses with shuttered windows
- Pale blue sky with distant blue hills
- Wooden cabinet frame surrounding and cropping the glass
Symbols
- White pointing hand
- Cream circles containing blue numerals
- Payout numerals
- Small storefront signs
- Signposts
- Rickshaw spoked wheels
Lettering
- Hong kong in very large slanted red block capitals with heavy black shading and a white outline, arched across the sky; williams above it in smaller red cursive script; the left ladder heading in white hand-lettered caps on a red banner, with hand-lettered payout numerals outlined in red, green or orange
Themes
- Hong kong
- Street scene
- Rickshaw
- Prize ladder
- Bingo card
- Shophouses
- Asian setting
Title on it
- Hong kong
Text on it
- MILLIONS
- 100
- 200
- 300
- 400
- 500
- 600
- 700
- 800
- 900
- Williams
- HONG KONG
- 5
- 2
- 12
- 15
- 4
- 14
- 10
- 8
- 7
- 11
- 3
- 6
- 1
- 9
- 13
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Fair-skinned blonde woman with orange-shaded wavy hair, arched eyebrows, red lips and a knowing smile, wearing a light blue open-neck blouse; seated in the hood of the pink rickshaw, looking out towards the viewer, holding a small yellow object in one hand |
| Man | Man in a conical straw hat and blue tunic, seen from behind, leaning forward in the shafts of a red rickshaw |
| Woman | Dark-haired woman in a yellow dress seated in the passenger seat of that red rickshaw, facing away from the viewer |
| Man | Blond-haired man in a blue jacket seated alongside her in the same rickshaw, seen from behind |
| Other | Several small background pedestrians on the street, in blue, red and purple, near the storefronts |
| Vehicle | Pink hooded rickshaw with gold-yellow trim and a yellow wheel arch in the foreground; a second red rickshaw at the right; small cars and a truck in the mid-ground street |
| Other | A partially visible figure in pink at the lower left corner, mostly cut off by the wooden frame |
Painted backglass photographed inside a varnished wooden cabinet frame that crops the left, bottom and right edges. Flat, brightly coloured comic art of a Hong Kong street scene. Across the centre, Williams in red cursive script above HONG KONG in enormous red block capitals with black shading and white outline, arched over the street. Down the left third, a tall cream payout ladder headed MILLIONS in white on a red banner with a pointing hand, listing 100 to 900 in alternating red, green and orange numerals. Upper right, a magenta bingo card of three rows of cream circles with blue numerals 5, 2, 12, 15, 4 / 14, 10, 8, 7, 11 / 3, 6, 1, 9, 13; vertical pink, yellow and orange score columns run down the right side. Background: a receding street of pink, green and yellow shophouses, cars, small pedestrians, pale blue sky, distant hills. Foreground centre: a blonde woman in a light blue blouse seated in the hood of a pink rickshaw with gold trim. At right, a straw-hatted man pulls a second red rickshaw carrying a woman in yellow.