Moon Shot

A full-length, freshly waxed playfield photographed in situ inside a bare aluminium cabinet. The artwork is a 1950s-style comic space scene: a pale blue star field crowded with white six-pointed stars, framed by a woodgrain band. A V of five pop bumpers sits in the upper third, with green and yellow translucent caps carrying red numerals 10, 11, 11, 10, 10. Below them a large yellow sun-shaped disc reads 50 POINTS WHEN LIT with 5 POINTS EXCEPT WHEN LIT underneath. Two red rockets flank the midline; a central orange-suited astronaut cradles a blue-and-green Earth above a yellow cratered plain with a tiny walking explorer. Blue triangular ramps fill the lower left and right, edged in red and studded with white stars. Red-outlined white ovals on posts read SPECIAL WHEN LIT. The lower apron is cream with a red 50 POINTS arrow either side, a helmeted pilot portrait between the two flippers, and BALLS PLAYED with a mechanical counter.

A square painted backglass with a black outer border, dominated by a flat mid-blue field of space crossed by a broad pale cream diagonal swoosh from lower left to upper right. Across the upper left sits a large logo: the word 'Bally' in flowing black-outlined script, and beneath it 'MOON SHOT' in heavy block capitals, orange-red fill with white edging and a black drop shadow, with the two O's of MOON rendered as round porthole-like discs. Nine human figures in orange space suits float weightlessly across the scene: men and women in bubble helmets, one woman holding a yellow lightning-bolt weapon, one man reaching up towards two small red-and-white balls marked '10'. Graphics include a large yellow ringed planet below the title, a white rocket with flame trail climbing at top left, a paper aeroplane marked '8', a small yellow rocket marked '5', a green and yellow curling organic mass in the top-left corner, a green island-like landmass with a red rocket exploding in orange-and-white flame at bottom left, and the word 'TILT' in large pink block letters at lower right beside a yellow starburst. An olive-yellow rounded score panel sits mid-left holding three windows showing 2, 4 and 1.

A painted space backglass photographed inside a plain white mount, so the artwork sits inside a cream-white rectangular border. The scene is a light powder-blue sky streaked with broad white swirl bands, opening onto a cratered grey-blue moon sphere in the lower left corner with a red-and-yellow burst or flame erupting from its lower edge. Across the upper left to centre runs the title: a small dark-blue cursive word above a much larger title in heavy red slab-serif capitals with a black shadow and a round dot separator between the two words. Below and left of centre is a rounded yellow panel containing three mechanical score reels reading 2, 9 and 5. Six astronauts in bright orange one-piece spacesuits with white trim, helmets left open and bare faces showing, float weightlessly across the blue field at different sizes and angles, giving a sense of depth. One woman is very large in the lower right, one blonde woman is mid-right, and smaller figures scatter towards the top and upper right. A small white-and-yellow capsule or craft drifts near the middle right beside a burst of white exhaust.