Playtime

Full-length view down into a wood-rail pinball playfield shot through open lockdown bars, with the backbox absent from frame. The art is a 1950s comic-book masked-villain casino theme in saturated red, teal-green, purple, cream and gold. Three large yellow-and-red round pop bumper caps sit across the upper playfield, marked 10 CENTS, flanked by clear plastic ramp and wire-ball guides and a central glowing saucer/lane. Fan-shaped teal and cream rays spread down the middle over a purple starfield. Two large diamond-shaped SPECIAL card illustrations sit left and right of mid-playfield, each showing a jester-masked man in a red ruff holding playing cards beside a blonde woman in a low-cut red dress. Smaller jester figures in striped collars and skull-masked heads crowd the outer lanes. Lettering is chunky comic display type: ACTION SCORE, ADVANCE SCORE, SPECIAL WHEN LIT, SPELL SPECIAL, BALL, SAVER, 25 CENTS. The lower apron carries four cream and maroon instruction cards: PLAYTIME rules, a FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY / TOP HAT SCORES card, a 5 BALLS PER GAME replay ladder, and a maroon BALL IN PLAY window reading GAME OVER in red dot-matrix letters. Two white Flipper Button plaques sit above the apron. Only the left flipper bat is partly visible; no ball is in play.

Square backglass in a cream-painted wooden frame, painted in flat 1960s comic/poster style. The scene is a swinging cocktail party: a huge red block-letter title reading PLAYTHING, with a red cursive script Chicago Coin's above it, sits over a teal-blue fan-shaped sunburst that radiates from behind the letters, with an exploding multicoloured confetti starburst at the title's right end. Below, yellow lettering reads 1 or 2 Can Play inside two round medallions. Five scantily clad women dominate: two large foreground showgirls (left, short orange-bobbed hair, blue polka-dot corset with orange feather trim, holding a martini glass; right, seen from behind, long orange hair, pink feathered costume) and three dancers on a white oval floor in the centre wearing blue and pink two-pieces, one kicking her leg up. Suited men and women crowd the left and right edges holding drinks beside cocktail tables with bottles and glasses. Two black batwing-framed panels stack down the right, headed 1ST PLAYER and 2ND PLAYER in hot-pink capitals over cream reel windows showing 1 2 6 0 and 0 0 0 0. A yellow apron at the bottom carries a red TOP HAT SCORE plaque with three star symbols, flanked by two navy trumpets, above a red banner reading IT'S FUN TO COMPETE.

A landscape-format backglass painted in a bright mid-century cartoon style. A turquoise sky is broken by a huge radial sunburst of alternating crimson, pink and cream wedges that fan out from a point just above centre. Across the upper left sits the title: 'Choose Your' in slanted red script with white highlight, above the word 'PLAYTIME' in very large red block capitals with white and black outline, followed by two small orange-gold circular tokens and the word 'Family' in white script. Two tall black rectangular score windows are stacked on the right, each headed by a red banner reading '1ST PLAYER' and '2ND PLAYER', with four white digit reels apiece. Roughly a dozen cartoon figures in mid-century leisure dress skate and pose across a pink ground: women in pencil skirts and matching blouses with arms outstretched, a man in a cap and jacket, a man in a blue sweater and shorts, a woman in a check/plaid coat, and skaters in pink and white outfits mid-stride. A large glossy pink swirl or spinning-disc graphic occupies the centre. Along the bottom runs a tan-and-orange band of dark blue rectangles, and a red banner centred beneath reads 'IT'S FUN TO COMPETE.' Dominant colours are turquoise, crimson red, pink and cream.