Made by
- Design
- Python Anghelo
- Art
- Pat McMahon
- Software
- Dan Lee
- Sound & Music
- Dan Forden
- Display animation
- Scott Slomiany
- Display animation
- Eugene Geer
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- crimson red
- black
- gold
- royal blue
Fingerprint: "THE PINBALL CIRCUIT": pure ornament panel, no figures, gold fleur-de-lis over each letter of CIRCUIT, red-to-blue gradient letterforms, symmetrical gold rococo scrollwork top and bottom
The whole piece is one single gigantic word, CIRCUIT, whose seven red-to-blue gradient serif letters fill the panel edge to edge, each letter stuffed with a gold fleur-de-lis and white scrollwork. Above it the smaller red THE PINBALL with a yellow dot inside every letter, flanked by a huge decorative C on the left and a matching S on the right whose bowl is dotted with gold circles like a billiard ball. The signature detail is the French-fleur-de-lis-and-filigree gold ornamentation, which is Victorian saloon rather than space-age, set on a black field between two crimson bands.
Setting
- Flat dark chocolate-brown to black field
- Solid crimson band across the top edge
- Solid crimson band across the bottom edge
- No scenery, no setting, purely graphic
Symbols
- Seven gold fleur-de-lis, one over each letter of circuit
- Gold acanthus scroll filigree, top and bottom centre
- Gold dots inside the bowl of the final s, billiard-ball-like
- White acanthus scrollwork under the letters of circuit
- Gold arrowhead spear leaf at the centre of each filigree ornament
- One small yellow dot inside each letter of the pinball
Lettering
- Very heavy slab-serif display capitals for circuit with a thick white keyline and a red-to-blue vertically striped gradient fill, overlaid with gold fleur-de-lis; smaller red slab-serif capitals with a black outline and a yellow dot per letter for the pinball; a compact bold sans-serif wordmark at bottom centre.
Themes
- Pinball
- Tournament circuit
- Competition
- Saloon
- Heraldic ornament
- Logo header
Title on it
- The pinball circuit
Text on it
- THE PINBALL
- CIRCUIT
- MIDWAY
- © 1993 MIDWAY MANU
A wide, short backglass header/logo panel with no figures at all - pure ornament and lettering. Two horizontal crimson-red bands run along the very top and very bottom edges, sandwiching a large dark chocolate-brown to black central field. Across the top of the dark field sits a symmetrical gold filigree ornament: a central spear-point leaf with two mirrored acanthus scrolls curling outward into tapering flourishes, flanked by short gold rules that thin as they reach the side edges. Centred below it, in medium-sized red slab-serif capitals with a thin black outline, is the line THE PINBALL, each letter studded with a single small yellow dot on its face. Filling almost the whole panel beneath is the single enormous word CIRCUIT, in heavy serif capitals with a thick white outline; the letter bodies are filled with a striped gradient that runs red at the top through to royal blue at the bottom, and each of the seven letters is overlaid with a gold fleur-de-lis over white scrollwork on its lower half. A second gold scroll-and-leaf ornament sits at bottom centre above the maker wordmark. Bottom right, tiny dark print on the red band reads a copyright line with the year 1993. A large blown-out white reflection or glare patch sits on the lower left red band.