Kings of Steel

A pinball playfield photographed under glass, whole machine visible including the metal lockdown bar and cabinet front with two illuminated coin-door windows. The art is a bold comic-book illustration on a mid-blue background: a huge fan of oversized playing cards spreads from the lower centre up the middle, each outlined in white with red or black pips and rank letters, and green circles marked 5x, 4x, 3x and 2x are scattered between them. Across the top arch more cards fan out behind two large round bumpers with shiny gold domed caps glowing orange from within. A chrome wireform ramp runs down the upper left, a red arrow insert points upward in the upper middle, and a bank of small round drop targets carrying single letters sits left of centre below the bumpers. Two blue triangular slingshot plastics with red rubber flank two white flippers at the bottom. The tan apron carries cream instruction cards and large PINBALL lettering.

Amber-lit wood playfield dominated by a huge snarling tiger head painted in orange, black and white, mouth wide open showing teeth and a red tongue, with a blue-and-white five-pointed star on its forehead. Around the tiger is a dense constellation of round amber lamps set in small black discs, plus black arrowed target lanes and scoring values: 80K, 160K, 240K, 320, 1000, 10000. The upper third holds two large red-ringed pop bumpers, a third smaller bumper below them, a black lane with 'WHEN FLASHING' lettering, and two flat blue triangular ramp panels printed with small pictures of a jungle hunter and other figures. Rope-and-tiger-print wireform guides snake round both side lanes, framed by a red-and-black tiger-stripe border. The lower playfield has a big black starburst, two white flipper bats, a blue script legend, and a black apron carrying gold PINBALL lettering and white instruction cards. Overall palette is orange, black, yellow, green and red in flat airbrushed cartoon style.

A painted, cartoon-styled backglass built around two huge profile portraits of medieval kings facing each other nose-to-nose across the top centre. The left king has a dark beard, a purple-blue horned and winged helmet and a gold crown; the right king has a fair beard, chain-mail coif and a taller gold crown. Behind them is a deep red patterned backdrop of stylised floral scrolls with a dark purple upper border and a green domed shape between the crowns. Across the very top, large block-serif lettering in orange, cream and red gradient reads KINGS OF STEEL, the first and last letters enlarged and the word STEEL set right. Below the title at upper left a bright blue script logo reads Bally in cursive followed by MIDWAY in solid capitals. Two rectangular grey score windows sit under the title either side of centre, with additional score windows at lower left and lower right and a small three-digit window at right centre. The middle of the glass is a large cream-framed picture window containing a grey metal panel, flanked by two tilted playing cards showing knights on horseback in orange and blue. Several dark blue and green glassy spheres float over black spiked club shapes. Small red text HIGH SCORE TO DATE sits above the centre window, and MATCH appears in red at right.

Illuminated backglass dominated by a colossal roaring lion's head in three-quarter view, filling the centre from top to bottom: orange-and-black striped fur radiating outward, yellow eyes with black slit pupils, flared pink-and-white muzzle, black nose, wide open mouth showing a row of squared white upper teeth and a tongue. Behind and around it is a warm tan brick wall. Across the top, huge jagged rock-style letters in mottled green and teal with orange and white outline read 'Tiger' and 'Raja', split left and right of the lion's forehead. Four red seven-digit LED score windows in black bezels with orange trim: one under each half of the logo, and two lower down flanking the lion's chest. Along the bottom edge sit four small oval plaques in green, red, brown and blue, one reading 'TOURNAMENT'. The art is hand-painted, saturated, airbrushed-outlined fantasy illustration in the style of Indian adventure-movie poster art.