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Junk Yard backglass

Also known as JY

1996 · Williams

Junk Yard

Known for Wrecking Ball, Sewer, Toilet ramp and Junk. Stormy night sky with lightning, distant city skyline, junkyard of stacked cars, tyres and cranes and crane and gantry structures.

Year
1996
Maker
Williams
Type
Solid state
Display
Dot matrix
Players
4

Known for

  • Toy

    Wrecking Ball

  • scoop

    Sewer

  • Ramp

    Toilet ramp

  • collection

    Junk

  • resource

    Fireworks

  • Wizard mode

    Outer Space

  • Mode

    Time Machine

  • Multiball

    Main Multiball

On the playfield

  • orange
  • red
  • brown
  • blue
Junk Yard playfield
Spotted in this photo
  • 2 flippers
  • 3 pop bumpers

Full vision analysis

Toy 1

  • Wrecking Ball

Ramps 2

  • Toilet ramp
  • Bus ramp

Holes 2

  • Crane shot
  • Sewer scoop

Spinner 1

  • Shooter lane spinner

Targets 3

  • Toaster Gun target
  • Car targets
  • Lower standup banks

Lane 1

  • Dog lane

On the backglass

  • blue
  • orange
  • black
  • white
Junk Yard backglass

Full vision analysis

Who and what

  • man Middle-aged grinning man with round wire spectacles and dark hair, floating inside a clear glass space helmet with a metal collar, wearing a green shirt, arms outstretched, grinning broadly
  • woman Brunette woman in a pale green sleeveless dress, recoiling with a frightened open-mouthed expression beside a toppled white trailer at the lower right
  • creature Green crocodile or lizard sprawled across the red scrapyard floor near the centre bottom
  • creature Small dark insect or spider-like shape on the red floor near the crocodile
  • other Orange bulldozer with raised front blade, dented cab and a driver figure visible
  • other Crushed white and blue car on its side, roof caved in

Setting

  • Stormy night sky with lightning
  • Distant city skyline
  • Junkyard of stacked cars, tyres and cranes
  • Crane and gantry structures

Text on it

  • Junk Yard
  • Williams

How it plays

  1. Modes 15

    • Adventure
    • Radar Adventure
    • The Great Jalopy Race
    • The Great Toilet Adventure
    • Air Tactical Combat
    • Time Machine
    • Mamushka
    • Move Your Car
    • Saucer Attack
    • Knight Mission
    • Payback Time
    • Secret Mania
    • Crane Hurry-Up

    Video modes

    • Run From Spike
    • Save the Girl
  2. Multiballs 3

    • Main Multiball
    • Crane Multiball
    • Midnight Madness
  3. Goals 10

    • Junk collection
    • Fireworks resource
    • Toast resource
    • Toaster Gun invention
    • Jalopy invention
    • Submerger invention
    • Flying Machine invention

    Other

    • Magic Bus
    • Window Shopping
    • Recycle
  4. Wizard modes 1

    • Outer Space

Made by

Design
Barry Oursler
Design & Software
Dwight Sullivan
Art
Paul Barker
Art
Pat McMahon
Art
Linda Deal (aka Doane)
Mechanics
Zofia Bil
Mechanics
Brad Cornell
Software
Graham West
Sound & Music
Kurt Goebel
Display animation
Adam Rhine
Display animation
Brian Morris

The cast

  • Spike

Reference

Linked terms
  • Wrecking Ball also called Crane ball
  • Crane shot also called Crane center lane also called Crane hole
  • Sewer also called Sewer scoop also called Sewer sinkhole
  • Toilet ramp also called Great Toilet ramp
  • Bus ramp also called Magic Bus ramp
  • Dog lane also called DOG scoop also called Dog shot
  • Toaster Gun target also called Toaster Gun standup
  • Lower standup banks also called lower three-bank
  • Junk also called Collect Junk
  • Radar Adventure also called Radar
  • The Great Jalopy Race also called Jalopy Race
  • The Great Toilet Adventure also called Great Toilet
  • Recycle also called Ball Recycle
Playfield vision analysis

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

Junk Yard playfield

Playfield

  • orange
  • red
  • brown
  • blue

Fingerprint: Two-line orange marquee FIGHT LIKE LUCHATIME CHICKEN CROCK, giant fanned hand playing cards ADVENTURE banner including OUTER SPACE card, blonde woman pink sunglasses stack tan stone blocks lower left, crowned red lion dog mask lower right, blue blueprint-grid speech balloons Come again Yes, large white arrows USE TO ANSWER DISPLAY QUESTIONS

Distinctive

The two-line orange marquee at the top reading FIGHT LIKE LUCHATIME / CHICKEN CROCK over a chaotic scrapyard collage. The centre is dominated by a giant fanned hand of playing cards with an ADVENTURE banner across it, including an OUTER SPACE card. Lower left has a blonde woman in pink sunglasses beside a stack of tan stone blocks, and lower right a crowned red lion or dog mask. A blue blueprint-grid section with speech balloons reading Come again?, Yes! and Yes! Everybody! sits between them. Two large white arrow decals reading USE TO ANSWER DISPLAY QUESTIONS flank the lower playfield above a graffiti-style JUNKYARD logo.

Setting

  • Cluttered scrapyard of twisted metal and junk
  • Blue engineering blueprint grid
  • Wooden and steel cabinet interior
  • Dark smoky playfield glass

Symbols

  • Playing cards
  • Spades
  • Hearts
  • Diamonds
  • Club
  • Skull
  • Crown
  • Blueprint grid
  • Speech balloons
  • Arrow decals
  • Stone blocks

Notable shapes

  • Large white arrow-shaped instruction decals either side of the apron
  • Giant fanned playing-card collage in the centre
  • Blue blueprint-grid panel
  • Dark round tunnel at upper left
  • Triangular slingshots and a squared-off outlane at the lower corners

Art motifs

  • Card suit pips scattered across the wood
  • Graffiti tag lettering
  • Collage of magazine and newspaper scraps
  • Stencil and comic ink outlines
  • Black marker signature on the apron metal

Themes

  • Scrapyard
  • Junk
  • Comic book
  • Adventure
  • Outer space

Title on it

  • Junkyard

Text on it

  • FIGHT LIKE LUCHATIME
  • CHICKEN CROCK
  • ADVENTURE
  • DANGER
  • CASH BEAR
  • CASH CLOTH
  • CASH BOX
  • OUTER SPACE
  • Come again?
  • Yes!
  • Yes! Everybody!
  • USE TO ANSWER DISPLAY QUESTIONS
  • SHOOT AGAIN
  • HOW TO PLAY JUNKYARD
  • FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY
  • 1 PLAY
  • 50c
  • 5 PLAYS
  • $2.00
  • 3 Balls Per Play
  • SEE BACKGLASS DISPLAY FOR REPLAY SCORE
Pop bumpers
Three round pop bumper caps across the upper playfield
Drop targets
Target banks on the left side
Ramps
Wireform ramp arcing over the upper-right playfield with a return lane
Slingshots
Standard triangular slingshots flanking the lower playfield
Upper playfield
Yes, elevated with a blue truck cab and a raised wire ramp lane
Apron and lower playfield
Metal apron with a white instruction card at left, a blue-tiled graffiti junkyard logo in the centre, and a white price card at right; a lit shoot again window between the flippers; the wooden cabinet front with coin slots is visible below the glass
Who and what
Kind Description
Woman Large red-haired woman's face at upper right, pale skin, grinning, half hidden behind metal and a blue van cab
Other Cartoon grinning skull and skeletal figure in the upper centre among twisted metal
Creature Red lion or dog mask wearing a small crown inside an orange shield at lower right
Woman Blonde woman with pink-tinted sunglasses at lower left, head and shoulders only
Robot Small goggle-eyed mechanical contraption with a helmet and tubes in the blue blueprint section
Vehicle Blue-grey van or truck cab at upper right
Full description

A photographed pinball playfield under smoked glass, with the cabinet front and coin door below. The art is a dense comic-book scrapyard collage in orange, red, brown and blue. At the top a two-line orange banner reads FIGHT LIKE LUCHATIME / CHICKEN CROCK above twisted metal, a grinning cartoon skull, a red-haired woman's face at the right edge and a blue-grey van cab at upper right. The centre is dominated by a large fanned hand of playing cards labelled ADVENTURE, with small panels reading DANGER, CASH BEAR, CASH CLOTH, CASH BOX and OUTER SPACE. Below, a blue blueprint-grid area holds a goggle-eyed mechanical contraption and speech balloons reading Come again?, Yes! and Yes! Everybody!. At lower left a blonde woman in pink sunglasses stands beside tan stone blocks; at lower right a crowned red lion or dog mask sits in an orange shield. Two white arrow decals read USE TO ANSWER DISPLAY QUESTIONS, above a HOW TO PLAY JUNKYARD card, a graffiti-style JUNKYARD logo and a FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY price card. Two pale flippers point inward above a lit SHOOT AGAIN panel.

Backglass vision analysis

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

Junk Yard backglass

Backglass

  • blue
  • orange
  • black
  • white

Fingerprint: Junk Yard with grinning man in glass space helmet floating above scrapheap; chrome reflecting sphere on mast upper left; jagged orange starburst title on wood-grain panel; wrecked orange bulldozer, crushed car, yellow lorry amid black tires; playing card faces on building wall; deep blue and orange dominates

Distinctive

The most memorable element is the grinning man in a round glass space helmet floating head-and-shoulders above the scrapheap with both arms thrown wide. A huge mirrored chrome sphere on a mast fills the upper left, reflecting an orange sunset that does not match the stormy blue sky. The title is mounted on a jagged orange starburst like a comic-book explosion. Down the lower left runs a wall of oversized playing-card faces, an odd motif for a junkyard scene. A cluster of five vehicles — an orange bulldozer with a raised blade, a crushed white car, a green saloon, a yellow flatbed lorry and a black hot rod — sits buried in a foreground heap of black tyres.

Setting

  • Stormy night sky with lightning
  • Distant city skyline
  • Junkyard of stacked cars, tyres and cranes
  • Crane and gantry structures

Symbols

  • Playing-card faces stacked on a wall
  • Black tyre stacks
  • Parachute
  • Chrome sphere
  • Parabolic radio dish
  • Crane boom
  • Lightning bolts

Lettering

  • Large chunky white block capitals with red drop shading, thick black outline, set on a jagged orange starburst

Themes

  • Scrapyard
  • Junk
  • Waste
  • Comedy accident
  • Vehicles
  • Crane
  • City skyline

Title on it

  • Junk yard

Text on it

  • Junk Yard
  • Williams
Who and what
Kind Description
Man Middle-aged grinning man with round wire spectacles and dark hair, floating inside a clear glass space helmet with a metal collar, wearing a green shirt, arms outstretched, grinning broadly
Woman Brunette woman in a pale green sleeveless dress, recoiling with a frightened open-mouthed expression beside a toppled white trailer at the lower right
Creature Green crocodile or lizard sprawled across the red scrapyard floor near the centre bottom
Creature Small dark insect or spider-like shape on the red floor near the crocodile
Other Orange bulldozer with raised front blade, dented cab and a driver figure visible
Other Crushed white and blue car on its side, roof caved in
Other Green 1950s saloon car
Other Yellow open flatbed lorry loaded with scrap
Other Black hot rod with exposed engine
Vehicle Stack of old red, yellow and blue televisions behind the title logo
Full description

A hand-painted, comic-realist backglass showing a scrapyard accident scene under a stormy blue sky. Upper right carries the title 'Junk Yard' in chunky block letters, white with red shading and a heavy black outline, sitting on a jagged orange-and-yellow starburst panel with a wood-grain border; a red and yellow jumble of old televisions is stacked behind it. Upper left shows a chrome reflecting sphere on a mast, a parachute, a red rocket-shaped marker on a pole, and a distant dark city skyline. At centre a grinning man with round spectacles floats in a glass space helmet, arms outstretched. Below him a wrecked orange bulldozer, a crushed white and blue car, a green saloon car, a yellow open lorry and a black hot rod sit amid stacks of black tyres. The lower left shows an illustrated panel of stacked playing-card faces on a building wall, while the lower right has a frightened brunette woman in a pale green dress recoiling beside a tipped white trailer. Dominant colours are deep blue, orange, black and white.