Loop the Loop

Full playfield seen from above inside a silver aluminium coin-door cabinet, the lower third covered by a pale blue-white metal apron with red and blue scrollwork. Artwork is flat 1960s-style painted cartoon in hot pink, lime green, yellow, red and pale blue. The centre of the lower playfield is dominated by an enormous grinning clown head: bald cream-white scalp, yellow forehead panel, red side panels, pink cheeks, a big round pink nose with white nostrils, wide white toothy grin, and a black-and-pink striped bow tie below. Above the head, a big pink five-petalled flower-shaped cluster holds the lamps and lettering RED BONUS, YELLOW BONUS, and a rainbow pinwheel wheel target reading 100. Two diagonal ladders of oval score values run up the right side in red and yellow. Upper left is a small clown figure in a red hat with a yellow ruff beside a spinning drum target marked 200, and an upper-left cage of faces. Three round red pop-bumper caps sit mid-left, flanked by fan-shaped blue arrow ramps marked A, B, C and 10-30. Slingshots with clown-face inserts flank the lower playfield. A red-bordered instruction card and a ball-window gauge sit on the apron.

Illuminated carnival-fair backglass panel in a red wooden cabinet frame. The upper third is a magenta-and-purple geometric lattice (triangular grid) backdrop carrying a huge looping yellow script logo reading 'Loop the Loop', with an orange oval maker's emblem above it and small white diagonal instruction lettering either side. Two yellow shield-shaped score panels flank the logo: the left one marked with a big blue '1' over '1ST PLAYER' with four number windows reading 0 3 4 2, the right marked '2' over '2ND PLAYER' with four windows all showing 0. The middle band is a painted fairground scene: a blue-and-white striped 'FUN HOUSE' stall with carousel horses at far left; a grinning white-faced clown in an orange plaid coat and ruff; a belly dancer in a green costume; a fortune-teller-like woman in a pink bra, blue trousers and long pink-and-blue striped skirt; an arm-wrestling table; a blonde man in a black-and-white checkered jacket and cream trousers holding a cue aloft; and a bent-over pin-up in a green dress. Bottom right an embracing couple sits beside 'GAME OVER' lettering and a yellow '7'. Dominant colours: magenta, yellow, blue, red.

Painted carnival backglass set inside a white and maroon cabinet surround, with a broad red chevron arrow across the lower front panel. The top third is a red sky filled with the dark scarlet latticework of a roller-coaster track, bunting strung across the upper left, and a large curving yellow script title centred between two yellow bell-shaped score panels. The middle and lower thirds show a fairground scene on a flat yellow platform above a blue floor band: at the centre a group of costumed showfolk stands in a loose row, while at the left a striped booth with a small marquee sign sits behind a cluster of seated and standing spectators, and at the right a red-and-yellow striped circus tent rises behind a seated red-haired woman in a green bodice. In the lower right corner a blonde woman in a red dress kneels and reaches towards a boxy cabinet with a lit front panel. A narrow red banner with pale lettering runs along the bottom of the painted scene. Style is flat, mid-century cartoon illustration with heavy black outlines, flat blocks of saturated colour and minimal shading.