1993 · Data East
Last Action Hero
Known for Movie scoop, Crane, CRANE drop bank and Left captive ball. Bright blue sky with white clouds, wall of orange and yellow flame and smoke across the lower half and collage montage with no single continuous setting.
- Year
- 1993
- Maker
- Data East
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Players
- 4
Known for
- scoop
Movie scoop
- Toy
Crane
- Drop target
CRANE drop bank
- Captive ball
Left captive ball
- Captive ball
Right captive ball
- Lane
Ripper lane
- button
Smart Missile
- mini-wizard mode
LAH 6-Ball
On the playfield
Toy 1
- Crane
Ramp 1
- Roof ramp
Holes 3
- Movie scoop scoop
- Chicken Scoop scoop
- Lower right scoop scoop
Captive balls 2
- Left captive ball
- Right captive ball
Spinner 1
- Lt. Dekker spinner
Drop target 1
- CRANE drop bank
Targets 3
- Danger Bar
- Eyeball targets
- Cat target
Lane 1
- Ripper lane
Control 1
- Smart Missile button
On the backglass
Who and what
- man Huge photorealistic head at centre-right, dark swept-back hair, blue eyes, heavy brow, stubbled jaw, serious expression, shoulders cut off by frame
- man Top-left corner, shoulder-up bald smirking face in shadow, wearing dark clothing
- other Top-right corner, figure in a black hooded robe with the face mostly hidden in shadow
- woman Left, brunette with shoulder-length hair, red bikini top and blue jeans, aiming a small pistol with both hands, stern expression
- woman Just behind the brunette, blonde with long hair, face in three-quarter profile
- man Right side, short grey hair in a white shirt, gripping a revolver, looking left
Setting
- Bright blue sky with white clouds
- Wall of orange and yellow flame and smoke across the lower half
- Collage montage with no single continuous setting
Text on it
- LAST ACTION
- HERO
- DATA EAST
How it plays
-
Modes 11
- Dynamite Features
- M-Ball Restart
- The Ripper's Downtown Blow Out
- Light Extra Ball
- Go to the Movies
- Cat Millions
- Catch the Red Eye
- Big Mistake
- Save Danny
- To The Roof
- Find Benedict
-
Multiballs 4
- M-Ball
- 6-Ball 6-ball
- Super Crane
- Double Jackpot
-
Goals 3
- Badges
Other
- Wildcard
- Second Cousin Frank
-
Wizard modes 2
- LAH 6-Ball mini-wizard mode 6-ball
- World Premiere
Made by
- Design
- Lyman F. Sheats Jr.
- Design
- Tim Seckel
- Design
- Joe Kaminkow
- Design
- Ed Cebula
- Design
- John Borg
- Art
- Markus Rothkranz
- Software
- Lonnie D. Ropp
- Software
- John Carpenter
- Sound & Music
- Brian Schmidt
- Display animation
- Jack Liddon
- Display animation
- Kurt Andersen
The cast
- Benedict
- Danny
Reference
Linked terms
- Movie scoop also called Center scoop also called Movie Screen scoop also called mode start scoop
- Crane also called Crane lane also called Crane shot and lock
- CRANE drop bank also called Crane drop targets also called CRANE drop
- Chicken Scoop also called Chicken
- Ripper lane also called The Ripper
- Lower right scoop also called Wildcard scoop
- Roof ramp also called left ramp
- LAH 6-Ball also called Last Action Hero
- Double Jackpot also called Jackpot 2
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- blue
- red
- yellow
- black
Fingerprint: Crime action theme: Giant central painted figure in bright red jacket holding pistol aloft, weathered one-dollar ADMIT ONE banknote sign across artwork above head, row of six red-glowing vertical drop targets diagonally down left-centre, tall yellow overhead ramp sweeping upper right, green seal on banknote, slim woman in pink sleeveless top at lower left, comic-book action art dense saturated colours
The giant central figure in a bright red jacket holding a pistol aloft, with a weathered one-dollar 'ADMIT ONE' banknote sign painted straight across the artwork above his head. The instruction card and the large DATA EAST decal pasted across the bottom apron are also very memorable. A row of six red-glowing vertical drop targets runs diagonally down the left-centre, unusually tall and bright.
Setting
- City street with scaffolding and girders
- Grey stone arch or stadium entrance
- Crushed tin cans and debris
- Painted red sky at the top edge
Symbols
- Antique banknote with green treasury seal
- Pistol and rifle
- Playing-card suits
- Dice
- Film reel
- Red pop-bumper caps
- Yellow overhead ramp
- Banknote stacks
Notable shapes
- Tall diagonal bank of six red vertical drop targets
- Arched grey tunnel at the top centre
- Long yellow ramp sweeping across the upper right
- Fan of coloured circular inserts above the flippers
- Large angled instruction card at lower left
- Cut-out hole in the apron beneath the flippers
Art motifs
- Halftone comic shading
- Heavy black ink outlines
- Explosion bursts
- Speed lines radiating from centre
Themes
- Action
- Crime
- Comic book
- Urban
- Shooting gallery
- Money
Text on it
- ADMIT ONE
- JACKPOT
- WIN
- Palace
- TRAVEL
- BLOW OUT
- LIFE EXTRA BALL
- GO TO THE MOVIES
- CAT BALLROOM
- RED EYE
- SAVE GIANT
- BIG BOMB
- SUPER CRANE
- FIND
- LAST
- ACTION
- SHOOT MISSILE
- 1 PER GAME
- RIPPER
- SHOOT AGAIN
- DATA EAST
- Owned and operated by:
- the church ARCADE
- M-BALL:
- Jackpot:
- Shields:
- Dynamic Values:
- Select Missions:
- Coins:
- This action has:
- 159-8645-00
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Huge central painted figure, short dark hair, stubbled jaw, white shirt under bright red-orange jacket, right arm raised holding a pistol, mouth open shouting |
| Woman | Slim, long light hair, pink sleeveless top, blue shorts, standing at the man's lower left |
| Woman | Long dark hair, blue clothing, seated/crouched lower left near the sling |
| Man | Painted man lower right in a light shirt, arm outstretched |
| Man | Additional small painted male faces and figures scattered up the right side beside the ramp, several holding weapons |
Long portrait playfield seen through smoked glass at a slight angle, right side rail visible. Dense comic-book action art in saturated blue, red, yellow and black. A huge painted man dominates the centre: short dark hair, stubbled jaw, white shirt under a bright red-orange jacket, arm raised with a pistol. Below-left stands a slim woman with long hair, pink sleeveless top and blue shorts; a second woman in dark blue sits lower left, and other armed men crowd the right side by the ramp. Across the artwork above the man's head is an antique banknote-style sign reading ADMIT ONE with a green Treasury seal, above which sit a JACKPOT window, a red WIN window and six red-glowing vertical drop targets. The upper third is a tangle of chrome wireforms, a yellow overhead ramp, three red pop-bumper caps and red saucer lamps under a grey arch. The lower centre carries a fan of coloured round inserts above two red-and-yellow flippers with LAST and ACTION windows between. The apron carries a white instruction card, a large DATA EAST decal and a teal arcade sticker.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- orange
- red
- black
Fingerprint: Colossal photorealistic male head filling centre-right, blue eyes, stubble, serious expression. Yellow-to-red "LAST ACTION HERO" logo with black shadow. Brunette in red bikini with gun lunging left. Row of grimacing action heroes at bottom edge. Burning red car, fireball American flag, helicopter, jet silhouettes. Black crow silhouettes across fire. Cerulean-blue sky background, action-movie collage.
The colossal photorealistic male head filling the centre-right half, next to the yellow-and-red slanted LAST ACTION HERO logo. Crow silhouettes strutting across the wall of orange flame along the bottom. A row of grimacing action heroes shoulder-to-shoulder along the bottom edge, including a man in a white naval-style peaked cap and one in black sunglasses. A brunette in a red bikini top, gun in hand, lunging in from the left. A burning red car and a fireball American flag amid helicopter and jet silhouettes.
Setting
- Bright blue sky with white clouds
- Wall of orange and yellow flame and smoke across the lower half
- Collage montage with no single continuous setting
Symbols
- Helicopters
- Jet fighter
- Radar dish
- Satellite
- Burning american flag
- Burning red car
- Crows
- Flame and smoke
- Pistols and revolvers
- Rifle held at bottom left
Lettering
- Large slanted italic capitals, yellow-to-red vertical gradient with heavy black drop shadow, hero smaller in orange-red and underlined
Themes
- Action film
- Military
- Explosions
- Gunfights
- Martial arts
- Spy thriller
Title on it
- Last action hero
Text on it
- LAST ACTION
- HERO
- DATA EAST
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Huge photorealistic head at centre-right, dark swept-back hair, blue eyes, heavy brow, stubbled jaw, serious expression, shoulders cut off by frame |
| Man | Top-left corner, shoulder-up bald smirking face in shadow, wearing dark clothing |
| Other | Top-right corner, figure in a black hooded robe with the face mostly hidden in shadow |
| Woman | Left, brunette with shoulder-length hair, red bikini top and blue jeans, aiming a small pistol with both hands, stern expression |
| Woman | Just behind the brunette, blonde with long hair, face in three-quarter profile |
| Man | Right side, short grey hair in a white shirt, gripping a revolver, looking left |
| Man | Bottom centre-left, bearded man in dark sunglasses and a tan jacket |
| Man | Bottom left of centre, black man with a beard shouting, mouth open |
| Man | Bottom centre, man in a tan coat and white naval-style peaked cap, holding something small in both hands |
| Man | Bottom centre-right, white-haired man in dark clothing seen from behind/side |
| Other | Bottom right, black-clad masked or hooded figure crouching, only dark silhouette readable |
| Man | Bottom-left corner, soldier/aviator in a khaki flight helmet and goggles |
| Man | Mid-left background, man in a reddish jacket partly hidden by fire |
Painted action-movie collage on a bright cerulean-blue sky background. Dominating the centre-right is an enormous photorealistic close-up of a square-jawed, dark-haired man's face, blue eyes, stubble and forehead creases, cropped at the shoulders. Across the upper left a large slanted logo in yellow-to-red gradient capitals with black drop shadow reads LAST ACTION, with smaller orange-red HERO underlined to the right; beneath it a white geometric double-D style logo and stacked white text. The left third is packed with smaller vignettes: a brunette woman in a red bikini top aiming a small pistol, a blonde woman behind her, a man in a white shirt on the right holding a revolver, hooded and dark-robed figures in both top corners, and a head-and-shoulders portrait of a smirking man top-left. Along the bottom band, shoulder to shoulder, are a helmeted soldier in khaki, a shouting Black man with a beard, a man in dark sunglasses and a tan jacket, two men in tan coats (one in a white peaked cap) and a black-clad figure. Orange fireballs and smoke fill the gaps; a burning red car sits lower left, helicopters and jet fighters fly overhead, a radar dish and a small satellite appear mid-left, and a burning American flag is mid-frame. Black crow silhouettes perch across the fire.