Pinball

A photographed electro-mechanical playfield, strongly lit with a blue-white wash across the lower half and warm red-and-yellow light at the top. The layout is a wedge: three round pop-bumper caps in a triangle on a big painted blue-and-red circle at the top centre, each capped with a pink-and-white starburst disc reading 1000 LIFT; a cloud-shaped white panel in the centre reading ALL TARGETS DOWN SCORE with a vertical ladder of blue diamonds running down the middle from 100,000 through 90,000, 80,000, 70,000, 60,000, 50,000, 40,000, 30,000, 20,000 to 10,000. Cream-white ball guides outline a large central return lane and two slings. Comic cartoon figures in flat 1970s print decorate the flanks: a pale grinning long-armed ghost-like figure on the left of the ladder, a small grey-blue character in a cap below it, a seated figure in a plaid/check shirt right of the ladder, and further cartoon figures near the upper left and upper right rails. The top arch carries red-and-yellow cat-eye graphic art with black lash lines. Colour: dominant red, gold-yellow, blue and white. Style: flat airbrushed comic illustration with white starburst panels.

A city-street-at-night scene painted in saturated purples, blues and reds, framed by a pale lavender metal edge. At centre sits a huge dark blue sphere like a giant pinball globe, its lower half filled with a white cumulus cloud and its upper rim ringed with concentric arcs, with a small yellow four-pointed starburst on its top edge. Lettered across the cloud in large curved red-and-yellow block capitals with a white outline is PINBALL, with BY STERN in small red capitals beneath. Four black rounded-rectangle score windows with red LED digits surround the title at the four corners, each flanked by a pointing cartoon hand holding a small yellow rank card reading 1ST, 2ND, 3RD or 4TH in red letters. The lower left shows a green-and-cream open-top vintage touring car with a big chrome grille, round headlamps and whitewall tyres driving out towards the viewer; behind and left of it a crowd of small pedestrians in hats stands on the pavement. A second smaller yellow-and-cream car sits further back at centre-right. On the right pavement, under a red-and-white striped shop awning, three small figures stand: one in a long orange-red coat, a taller one in a red jacket and blue cap seen from behind, and a child in a yellow top with an arm raised. A round blue plate, a fried egg and an orange cat lie on the road at bottom centre. Tall apartment blocks with lit yellow windows flank both sides.

Painted pinball backglass showing a city street scene receding into the distance between tall blocks of buildings in red, yellow, blue and tan brick, drawn in flat cartoon colour with heavy black outlines. At the centre a huge dark-blue and white spiralling vortex or shell curls up like a giant wave behind the logo, with 'PINBALL' in large arched red-and-yellow block letters with black shadow, 'BY' in small red letters beneath, and 'STERN' in red capitals below that. Two horizontal mechanical score reels, each in a white banded frame, run across the whole artwork above and below the title, showing digit windows with a yellow insert reading '2H' between them. In the foreground a large green open-top sports car with a long slatted silver grille, big round chrome headlights and a red badge on the nose speeds towards the viewer; a yellow convertible car with black bonnet stripes follows behind, kicking up white spray. On the left a man in a blue jacket and dark cap stands beside a 'PLAYERS' panel with four stacked numbered discs. On the right, a man in red trousers and a woman stand on the pavement by a red-and-white striped awning. Bottom left reads 'BALL IN PLAY'. A small copyright signature sits low centre-right.

A rectangular backglass with a dark blue night-time city street painted in flat comic-book colour. Four black oval score windows with red LED seven-segment digits are inset in two rows, the upper pair flanked by pointing cartoon hands and yellow cards reading 1 TO START and 2 TO PLAY. The upper windows show 469 and 46 0; the lower pair show 469 and 46 0. Across the middle runs a wide dark blue arc with yellow-outlined title lettering, largely hidden behind the score windows and glare, with the word BONUS in small capitals beneath. Below is a broad street scene: a large shiny emerald-green 1930s hot rod with a tall vertical chrome grille and round headlamps dominates the left centre, a pale yellow sedan with a small round roof sign sits to its right, and groups of small cartoon pedestrians in coats and hats stand on both pavements. Lower left is a vertical PLAYER 1 to 4 ladder and a small circular BGR badge. Lower centre shows a round green manhole cover and a small orange-red burning figure emitting grey smoke puffs. Lower right reads GAME OVER in bright green block capitals. Dominant colours are dark blue, black, yellow and red, in muted, slightly grimy night-time tones.