1963 · Williams
Jumpin' Jack's
Known for Gobble holes and Hole Score. Flat cobalt-blue field, bright yellow wedge radiating from centre-left, large green dome or hill studded with coloured balls and light green ground strip along the bottom edge.
- Year
- 1963
- Maker
- Williams
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 2
Known for
- Hole
Gobble holes
- Goal
Hole Score
On the playfield
Hole 1
- Gobble holes
Bumpers 2
- Green passive bumpers
- Yellow pop bumpers
Lanes 2
- Center top lane
- Middle side lanes
Controls 2
- On Bumpers buttons button
- Off Bumpers button button
On the backglass
Who and what
- woman Young adult, fair skin, auburn bobbed hair with a headband, pale blue leotard with red trim and red shorts, leaping with both arms stretched wide and one leg kicked back, smiling with red lips
- other Clown diving head-down at the left in an all-red suit and pointed cap, legs in the air, grinning
- other Clown at bottom left, red shirt with green sleeves, white face, both arms thrown up, laughing
- other Clown at lower centre-right, red top and green trousers, arms raised wide, mouth open laughing
- other Clown at bottom right, yellow and green costume, shouldering a huge glossy red ball
- other Small clown at the top right beside the green dome, partially hidden
Setting
- Flat cobalt-blue field
- Bright yellow wedge radiating from centre-left
- Large green dome or hill studded with coloured balls
- Light green ground strip along the bottom edge
Text on it
- Williams
- TWO PLAYER
- Jumping Jacks
- 1
- 1628
- 1st PLAYER
- IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE!
- 1 OR 2
- CAN PLAY
- 2
- 000
- 2nd PLAYER
- GEE, A DOUBLE PLAY!
- WOW YA DING?
- TOO BAD, TRY AGAIN!
- BALL IN PLAY
How it plays
-
Goals 1
- Hole Score
Made by
- Design
- Steve Kordek
Reference
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- yellow
- red
- green
Fingerprint: Woman in blue leotard leaping across yellow wedge, six grinning clowns surrounding, Jumping Jacks in red polka-dot letters, green dome with oversized glossy balls, harness-clad donkey rearing, circus carnival comedy scene, bold outlines flat spot colour
The most memorable element is a woman in a pale blue leotard bursting mid-leap across a bright yellow wedge, arms flung wide, encircled by six red-and-green grinning clowns. Beside her a white harness-clad donkey rears against a huge green dome studded with oversized glossy coloured balls like a giant bag of marbles. The title 'Jumping Jacks' is rendered in red script covered in white polka dots on a cobalt-blue field, with a large red double-arrow scoring panel for two players on either side. Speech bubbles reading 'GEE, A DOUBLE PLAY!', 'WOW YA DING?' and 'TOO BAD, TRY AGAIN!' punctuate the clown figures. The yellow wedge radiating behind the woman against the blue background gives the whole backglass a hard diagonal split.
Setting
- Flat cobalt-blue field
- Bright yellow wedge radiating from centre-left
- Large green dome or hill studded with coloured balls
- Light green ground strip along the bottom edge
Symbols
- Playing-card style red score arrows
- Five plain coloured circles across the top left
- Five small coloured ball-in-play lenses at bottom left
- Oversized glossy coloured balls on the green dome
- Coloured ball cluster
- Horse or donkey in harness
Lettering
- Mixed: red-and-pink polka-dotted script title with white drop shadow on two staggered lines; heavy yellow sans-serif block capitals for 'two player'; white and yellow condensed sans-serif capitals on red panels for the player labels; black sans-serif capitals inside white-outlined circles for 'ball in play'
Themes
- Circus
- Clowns
- Fairground
- Comedy
- Sport
- Two player
Title on it
- Jumping jacks
Text on it
- Williams
- TWO PLAYER
- Jumping Jacks
- 1
- 1628
- 1st PLAYER
- IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE!
- 1 OR 2
- CAN PLAY
- 2
- 000
- 2nd PLAYER
- GEE, A DOUBLE PLAY!
- WOW YA DING?
- TOO BAD, TRY AGAIN!
- BALL IN PLAY
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Young adult, fair skin, auburn bobbed hair with a headband, pale blue leotard with red trim and red shorts, leaping with both arms stretched wide and one leg kicked back, smiling with red lips |
| Other | Clown diving head-down at the left in an all-red suit and pointed cap, legs in the air, grinning |
| Other | Clown at bottom left, red shirt with green sleeves, white face, both arms thrown up, laughing |
| Other | Clown at lower centre-right, red top and green trousers, arms raised wide, mouth open laughing |
| Other | Clown at bottom right, yellow and green costume, shouldering a huge glossy red ball |
| Other | Small clown at the top right beside the green dome, partially hidden |
| Animal | White horse or donkey with dark eye and mane, in red-and-white harness, rearing up at the right |
Illuminated two-player backglass artwork. Deep cobalt-blue field behind a bright yellow wedge that fans out from the centre-left. Top centre-right carries the title in large red-and-pink script: 'Jumping Jacks', the letters covered in white polka dots and given a white drop shadow, arranged on two staggered lines and tilted. Across the top, yellow block capitals read 'TWO PLAYER'. At top left a red script 'Williams' logo sits beside a row of five plain coloured circles (red, yellow, green, red, teal). Left side: a red arrow-shaped panel with a huge white '1', a mechanical score window showing 1628, and '1st PLAYER' on a red bar. Right side mirrors it with '2', a window reading 000, and '2nd PLAYER'. A green shield in the centre reads 'IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE!' above two white circles marked 1 and 2, over 'CAN PLAY'. Lower left, a white bar reads 'BALL IN PLAY' over five small coloured lenses. The centre figure is a young woman in a pale blue leotard with red trim, auburn bobbed hair with a headband, leaping with both arms flung wide and one leg kicked back. Around her are six grinning clowns in pointed caps and parti-coloured costumes: one diving head-down in all-red at the left, two laughing with arms thrown up along the bottom, one at the bottom right shouldering a huge glossy red ball, one small at the top right, and one at the foot of the green dome. A white horse or donkey in red-and-white harness rears beside a large green dome studded with red, orange, yellow and teal balls. Comic-book style, heavy black outlines, flat spot colour, glossy reflections and a blown-out specular highlight across the upper centre.