Orbit / Outer Space

Full-length electro-mechanical playfield shot from above inside a wooden cabinet, lit by warm lamp glare at the top. Background is a painted radial burst of green, orange, tan and brown wedges with a blue band running down the middle. At the centre is a target of concentric rainbow rings around a segmented striped globe of yellow, green and blue wedges, ringed by a spiral arc of round yellow insert lamps each set in a blue 100 disc. Across the top sit three large pop bumper caps, white with blue rings and a red 100 over the words BUMPER - SCORE ADVANCE. Left of centre is a vertical drop-target bank of four red targets marked 5000, 4000, 3000, 2000, backed by a yellow ladder numbered 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, with a red SPECIAL oval above. Right side carries a painted blue-and-white spacecraft on an orange lane with a rocket nose, plus small white flag markers. Two white flippers with red edging sit at the bottom, and a cream card carries the title and instruction text.

A comic-book painted backglass dominated by a huge cratered orange-tan planet at centre-left, with a slim white-and-pale-green rocket crossing diagonally over it, lettered A GAME OF SKILL along its hull. On the right, two large heads float in a black star field: an upper large male face in profile, yellow-orange skin, swept purple and blue hair, open mouth as if shouting, and below him a second face with bright green skin and green hair, one wide eye and bared white teeth. A small squat purple mechanical creature with round eyes and antennae sits on the planet's lower-left limb. Four printed score windows ring the glass, one for each player, each headed by a red panel reading 1st/2nd/3rd/4th Player and showing digit drums. Along the left edge stands a tall purple and magenta control console packed with round coloured buttons in red, yellow, green, orange and pale blue, plus a red-lettered GAME OVER plate. The background is deep black with scattered small ringed planets, a red-ringed planet, tiny asteroids and an orange starburst explosion near the rocket's nose. Bold flat comic colours dominate: orange-tan, purple, green and black, with heavy black outlines and halftone shading. A white banner across the top carries a slogan and the game's name in cursive script above 4 PLAYER.

A comic-book style science-fiction backglass in heavy black ink outlines and flat saturated colour. The centre top carries a big three-dimensional block-letter logo, OUTER SPACE, in tall extruded capitals shading from orange at the edges to yellow on the faces, sitting below cream cursive Gottlieb script and the black text 2 PLAYER. Above that, in purple lettering on pale blue, is the line It's MORE FUN to compete! Two pale rectangular score windows sit at upper left and upper right, each showing five digit slots with a comma; the right window has an orange-red 2nd Player insert plaque and the left has a yellow lamp insert. The artwork shows a black starfield with a large mauve-grey cratered planet low centre-left, a white rocket with a pointed nose and swept fins angling down to the right across the planet, a pink-and-orange ringed planet above it, and a small red explosion burst. On the right a large man in profile with heavy dark brows and a black pompadour, bare-chested with a purple harness, leans forward; below him a green-skinned alien woman with white face paint and green antennae. The left and lower thirds are packed with purple, blue and green control consoles, dials, coloured pushbuttons and speaker grilles. A purple panel on the left reads BALL PLAY. Dominant colours are deep purple, sky blue, black and orange-yellow.