Joker Poker

A full-length electro-mechanical poker-themed playfield photographed under glass, its whole surface crowded with painted playing cards, dice, chips, coins and gold filigree scrollwork on a red and deep-green ground. The lower half is dominated by five stepped score rows printed on cream arrows, each ending in a gold-and-black circular spinner disc with values 500, 1000, 2000, 3000 and 5000, with painted king, queen, jack, ace and ten card faces in rows above them. Two large yellow plastic flippers sit left and right of centre with matching yellow triangle lane guides, and a cream shuttle-shaped wooden ball-return plunger with a metal ball rests in the middle. The upper playfield is much deeper, domed by two clear plastic pop-bumper caps with cream disc tops reading SPECIAL, surrounded by brightly lit coloured lenses, chrome posts, three red target banks and a fan of painted cards. Curved red-and-yellow lettering reading JOKER POKER sits over a yellow BONUS starburst, with a smaller GOLDEN HANDED logo. Two cream instruction cards with dense black print are screwed to the lower apron, one headed JOKER POKER INSTRUCTIONS, beside a blue script company signature.

A rectangular painted backglass set in a pale cream wooden frame. Centre-right carries the title in two stacked lines: a small yellow script 'Gottlieb's' above huge block capitals 'JOKER' and 'POKER', letters yellow with a red inner fill and a heavy black outline, on a flat mustard-yellow sky. Three jester/clown women dominate the art: at left a figure in a pink-and-white harlequin diamond top with yellow spotted trousers and green-yellow cap, fanning out playing cards from her raised hand; centre a pink-haired jester in a pink-yellow-white diamond leotard and white-and-pink striped tights, crouched with one arm raised, her long pink hair curling forward; at right a blonde jester in an orange leotard, green-and-white striped tights and a two-pointed green/white cap, holding a striped circus ball and a small wand. Behind them are billowing magenta, purple, navy and teal clouds, with a fan of playing cards arcing up through the sky. Four player score windows in ornate orange-red frames with Greek-key borders sit at the four corners, each numbered 1 to 4 in a circle, showing blue digits. A yellow-and-navy chequered floor runs along the bottom with a central red-lit '020' display, a white 'BALL IN PLAY' arrow sign over ace and heart cards, and playing cards scattered at lower right. Style is flat, saturated airbrushed illustration with heavy black key lines.

A four-player electro-mechanical style backglass dominated by a warm yellow-orange starburst in the centre and deep purple-and-cobalt cloudy masses around the edges. Four rectangular score windows with cream faces and dark numerals sit across the upper two-thirds, framed by red-and-gold striped surrounds and each headed by a yellow circled player number (1, 2, 3, 4). A tall curving band of playing cards runs down the left of the top-left window. Two identical dancing showgirls in yellow frilled bikinis with white beaded headdresses occupy the centre and right, one crouching low on a green-and-blue chequered floor at bottom-left of centre and one standing at mid-right with arms flung out. Three flamingos stand centre-right with one head down pecking. Large playing cards fan across the bottom, including a jack, queen and a five of clubs showing a crowned figure. The title is spelled out in huge yellow block capitals with black and white outlines in the centre.