North Star

A 1950s-style electro-mechanical playfield photographed in the cabinet, seen at a slight angle with wooden side rails visible left and right and metal lockdown bar and apron plate at the bottom. The upper half is a busy mosaic of teal-green sea-blue background with orange, red, yellow and black pop-bumper skirts, four large red mushroom pop bumpers each printed 10 on the cap and skirted in pink-magenta and orange rings, plus a fifth smaller bumper high in the lane at the top. A row of yellow cylindrical rollover lane guides runs across the top, flanked by small orange and green post lamps in cream collars. Two big orange cash-register/cashbox motifs with tall vertical flutes sit on the left and right mid-field, marked 5 POINTS on white pennants, alongside green standing figures with cream discs. Across the middle is a cream ribbon reading 3RD PLACE WHEN TIE WITH THAT HIGH in black caps, flanked by a SPECIAL AWARD rosette, and lower down 10 POINTS WHEN COMPLETE THIS appears twice beside gate targets. Two identical blonde women in profile, red lipstick, red-and-white striped scarves and bare shoulders, are printed on the left and right lower playfield facing inwards. At the centre sits a smiling child-like cashier figure above a script name plaque, with two chrome LOCKED cash registers on rails either side. A brushed-aluminium apron carries NORTH STAR instructions, a BALLS PLAYED window, and FLIPPER BUTTONS ON SIDE OF CABINET.

Rectangular backglass with a white outer border, printed in a flat airbrushed mid-century cartoon style. A red-and-gold sunburst of straight rays fills the upper two-thirds behind a cold arctic seascape: green-teal water with curling wave lines, pale blue-grey ice floes and a large white polar bear head and shoulder rising out of the water at left-centre. At top left a curved script word sits above a huge arched block-letter NORTH, a big five-pointed gold star with an orange rim, then the word STAR in large cream-outlined serif capitals. A white pill-shaped score window at top right contains , 6 - 3 - 3 on cream reels, framed by a dark teal lozenge with a small gold star at its top. Two fur-clad human figures dominate: a standing woman in a glossy orange one-piece parka with cream fur trim, a fur ruff hood, matching leggings and orange boots, cradling a green fish, standing on a floe beside the polar bear; and a seated or kneeling woman on a floe right of centre, in a white-and-blue parka with a ruff hood and a fur muff, playing a bright red electric guitar. Behind them an orange seal and a small red-clad figure on the ice; at upper right a grey-blue building on stilts, a NORTH POLE sign, a bare tree hung with rings, and a scattering of white coins. Bottom centre shows a lit green 6 and faint GAME OVER lettering.

A painted jungle-hunt themed backglass. A blonde woman in a white pith helmet and cream safari shirt stands at the upper left, holding a long rifle diagonally across her body, her head turned in profile to the right. Across the top runs a large weathered tan-and-brown serif title, partly washed out by a bright glare at centre, with a red rectangular logo box at the top right corner. To the right of the title are three rectangular reel windows in a rounded white frame with a red outline. The centre of the glass is filled with two staggered rows of eight pointed oval medallions, red, cream and white bordered, each containing a painted big-game animal head: lion, tiger, cheetah, elephant, gazelle, warthog and rhinoceros. The background throughout is flat bright green jungle foliage. At the bottom a dark-skinned smiling man kneels in the foliage beside a carved masked tribal figure on the left, with small running animals and a red-and-black striped totem-like shape on the right. A thick red border with a cream outer edge frames everything.

A painted cartoon-illustrated backglass set in a cream cabinet frame decorated with red and blue diagonal stripe blocks down each side and across the bottom. The art panel has a red sunburst sky fading to orange and yellow at the horizon, over turquoise-green arctic water broken by white ice floes. Lettering at top: a yellow cursive script word above big white block capitals with black outline reading 'NORTH', a large five-pointed yellow star with orange outline behind it, then 'STAR' in slanted white capitals with black shadow lower down. A tan horizontal banner across the top carries small black lettering including a city line reading CHICAGO, ILL. Upper right holds a rounded white and orange window with four white number cards showing 1, 6, 8, 3 under a small yellow star. Left of centre a woman in a red fur-trimmed parka, yellow fur hat, fur-trimmed boots and red trousers stands on a floe beside a large white polar bear wearing a yellow tag. Centre right a man in a blue parka with brown fur hood and trim sits on the ice playing a red guitar with a yellow pick, black and white musical notes floating above him. Behind: a small red-coated figure with raised arms, a grey-blue ice tractor on the horizon, and an orange-brown husky sitting upright at the right.