Made by
- Design
- Wayne Neyens
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the playfield
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- blue
- cream
- red
- yellow
Fingerprint: Niagara: grinning cartoon man bursting through giant wave in pink arrow reading 100,000 with special when lit, red-haired man and woman in red dress beside harlequin jester with horn, two yellow pop bumpers with point when lit targets, blue-outlined waves, seaside carnival atmosphere
A grinning cartoon man bursting up through a giant foaming wave inside a pink arrow-head that reads 100,000 with SPECIAL WHEN LIT - the single most memorable image on the board. Close behind it, a red-haired man and a woman in a red dress and flowered hat standing nose-to-nose beside a black-and-white harlequin jester with a horn, with a stilt pier and heart shapes behind them. Two round POINT WHEN LIT targets sit directly above, framed by yellow-glowing pop bumpers. The lower apron is unusually chatty, carrying both NO WAZZING NO PIXELS and BINGOES NOT PERMITTED TO PLAY THIS GAME on scroll banners.
Setting
- Seaside with foaming surf and a stilt pier
- Sailing ship on the open sea to the right
- Painted town skyline with a building marked 1001
- Bright blue sky behind the top bumper cluster
Symbols
- Pink heart shapes
- Playing-card suits on the centre insert panel
- Small pink parasol/umbrella over the sea
- Flowered hat
- Jester horn
- Arrow-head burst shape
- Qr code sticker
Notable shapes
- Large pink arrow-head burst containing 100,000 over the central wave
- Two big circular yellow-glowing bumper caps set into brown oval fields
- Two round point when lit plastic targets
- Curved white ball guides sweeping from the upper playfield down to the flippers
- Keyhole-shaped drain opening in the centre of the apron
Art motifs
- Stylised white-blue breaking wave spanning the centre
- Hand-painted carnival/sweatball lettering
- Pink and cream scroll banners
- Spectator crowd on a pier
- Striped red-and-tan cabinet paint
Themes
- Seaside
- Surfing
- Summer holiday
- Sweatball carnival
- Pier
- Sailing ship
Title on it
- Niagara
Text on it
- 100,000
- SPECIAL WHEN LIT
- POINT WHEN LIT
- FLIPPER
- A PRODUCT OF
- D. Gottlieb & Co.
- MFGRS. CHICAGO
- NO WAZZING NO PIXELS
- BINGOES NOT PERMITTED TO PLAY THIS GAME
- BUTTONS ON SIDE OF CABINET
- 3 BALLS
- 5 CENTS
- NIAGARA
- 1001
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Cartoon man with a wide toothy grin and dark hair, bursting up through the white foam inside a pink arrow-head, wearing a white shirt |
| Man | Red-haired man in a mustard-yellow shirt and dark tie, in profile facing right, standing close to the woman |
| Woman | Woman in a red dress with a flowered hat, dark hair, facing the red-haired man, near centre-left |
| Other | Black-and-white harlequin jester with a fool's cap, holding a small horn/trumpet to his mouth |
| Man | Laughing man in a red-and-white polka-dot sun hat and blue-tinted glasses, lower left apron corner |
| Other | Small heads in a crowd lined along the pier on the left |
| Other | Swimmers and tiny figures in the painted sea at right, plus a small swimmer mid-right |
A photographed early electro-mechanical pinball playfield in a wooden cabinet with a worn red-and-tan striped body, viewed from above with the whole board filling the frame. The artwork is a busy hand-painted seaside-carnival scene in blues, cream, pink and red: a foaming white-blue wave fills the centre, with a grinning cartoon man in a white shirt bursting up through the wave inside a pink arrow-head shape reading 100,000 with SPECIAL WHEN LIT beneath it. Lower centre-left a couple in 1940s dress - a red-haired man in a mustard shirt and a woman in a red dress with a flowered hat - stand beside a black-and-white harlequin jester holding a horn; behind them a pier on stilts carries a crowd of tiny figures and pink heart shapes. Left apron corner shows a laughing man in a red-and-white polka-dot sun hat and blue glasses. Two large yellow-glowing pop bumpers sit mid-field under round POINT WHEN LIT plastic targets, with two brown/tan rubber-banded bumpers above and three lit green bumpers across the top. White ball-guide rails curve down both sides to two white paddles lettered FLIPPER in blue. Bottom apron carries an instruction card, a QR code, and two scroll banners reading NO WAZZING NO PIXELS and BINGOES NOT PERMITTED TO PLAY THIS GAME.
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- white
- green
- red
Fingerprint: NIAGARA title in enormous cream letters red drop shadows down left side as waterfall slides, colossal white Niagara waterfall filling entire left half glass, cream-red lettering plunging diagonally like slide, four heart-shaped markers stacked left edge lettered D C B A, bulging crowd cartoon tourists corner leaning railing cameras hats dwarfed by falls, stepped pyramid nine coloured score-value boxes 100000-900000
The colossal white Niagara waterfall filling the entire left half of the glass, with the cream-and-red NIAGARA lettering plunging diagonally down it like a slide. Four heart-shaped markers stacked down the left edge, each holding a single letter D, C, B, A. A bulging crowd of gawping cartoon tourists in the bottom left corner leaning over the railing with cameras and hats, dwarfed by the falls. A stepped pyramid of nine coloured score-value boxes (100000 up to 900000) under an arched '1·2·3·4·5·6 MILLION' heading.
Setting
- Huge waterfall and river gorge
- Green banks and distant horizon
- Blue sky with a rainbow arc
- Wooden outer frame
Symbols
- Four heart markers lettered a b c d
- Rainbow arc
- Green canoe
- Score-value boxes
- Card-suit-free
Lettering
- Large cream block letters with red drop shadows and dark green extruded 3-d sides, running diagonally; white condensed sans-serif for points and million; coloured numerals inside rounded rectangular boxes
Themes
- Niagara falls
- Waterfall
- Tourism
- Swimming
- Sightseeing
- Holiday crowd
Title on it
- Niagara
Text on it
- POINTS
- 20
- NIAGARA
- 1·2·3·4·5·6 MILLION
- 900000
- 800000
- 200000
- 600000
- 500000
- 400000
- 300000
- 100000
- D
- C
- B
- A
- A PRODUCT OF
- D. Gottlieb & Co
- CHICAGO, ILL.
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Bottom left, yellow long-sleeve top, red cap, dark hair, pointing up at the falls with outstretched arm |
| Man | Behind him, purple shirt, arms around the first man, grinning |
| Woman | Floral sun hat and pink dress, standing on the ledge |
| Woman | Red polka-dot dress, dark curly hair, looking toward the water |
| Woman | Yellow swimsuit, holding a small red flag on a stick |
| Man | Green-and-white striped shirt, arms flung out towards the river |
| Child | Red cap, peeking over the crowd at the lower edge |
| Other | Figure in a white sailor-style cap and blue shirt at the railing |
| Other | Figure in a tan hat behind the crowd on the left |
| Woman | In the water at right, green swimsuit, swimming with one arm raised |
| Other | Small yellow bird or duck-like figure flying over the spray at upper right of the falls |
Illuminated backglass framed in light wood, showing a Niagara Falls scene in flat, brightly coloured mid-century cartoon style. A huge white waterfall crashes down the left half of the panel, throwing up white spray; to the right the falls recede into green banks with a red-brown horizon and a blue sky crossed by a rainbow arc. The title NIAGARA runs diagonally down the left in enormous cream letters with red drop shadows and dark green three-dimensional sides. At top left a purple rounded 'POINTS' banner sits beside a magenta reels window showing 20. Top right, '1·2·3·4·5·6 MILLION' curves above a stepped stack of coloured score-value boxes. Down the left edge four stacked heart markers lettered D, C, B and A. Along the bottom a crowd of about nine cartoon holidaymakers in caps and swimsuits crowd the rocky ledge: a man in a yellow top and red cap pointing, a woman in a red polka-dot dress, a woman in a yellow swimsuit, a man in a green striped shirt reaching out. In the water to the right three swimmers and a green canoe paddle among spray.