Punchy the Clown

Photographed looking down into a brightly coloured electro-mechanical playfield behind glass, in a wooden cabinet with red-painted side rails. The centre of the playfield is dominated by an enormous grinning clown head: yellow face with orange polka-dot cheeks, huge white toothy grin outlined in red and blue, round eyes with blue irises looking upward, small round red nose, and a fat red-and-white striped conical hat at the very top. Below the chin sits a large orange bow tie with a red centre on a purple collar. The whole field is comic-book cartoon art in saturated red, yellow, blue, green and purple, covered in yellow five-pointed stars, cream smoke bursts and jagged orange explosion shapes. Lettering is scattered everywhere: a red-and-yellow logo at the top centre reading PUNCH, cartoon bubble words across the upper playfield, a vertical word down the left, and words running up the right sidewall. The upper left and right corners carry separate cartoon badger characters inside the side art, each with a speech or sound bubble. The lower left is packed with a fan of laughing faces and a diagonal rainbow-coloured striped insert with round red and blue plastic posts. The bottom edge shows three white apron instruction cards and a bare metal apron plate.

A cartoon-illustrated backglass in a red wooden frame, split into a large upper panel and a shorter lower panel by a black horizontal bar. The upper panel is dominated by a huge grinning clown head on the right: yellow face, tall yellow hair with a black tuft, a small red conical hat tipped forward, enormous bulging blue-and-white eyes, a round red ball nose, and a wide red-lipped mouth showing a full grid of square white teeth. The clown wears a polka-dot ruff in green, red, yellow and blue, and green gloved hands holding drumsticks over a row of yellow-and-red toms and cymbals. On the left the main title sits on a cream torn-paper burst: 'BUCKY' in fat bubble letters alternating blue, red, yellow and navy, small pink-and-blue script 'the', and 'CLOWN' below in tall green and yellow block capitals, with a small TM mark. Red flame-like swirls fill the background, with a tiny circus tent top left. The lower panel is a teal field with yellow polka dots, two big red-and-white bullseye speaker grilles, white 'POINTS' lettering, blue and white point values, and a yellow starburst carrying 'PUNCH-PUTER' in pink and white bubble caps.

A cartoon-style backglass with no score display or instruction text in frame, just full-height painted artwork split into two zones. The right two-thirds is dominated by an enormous grinning clown head: bright yellow face, huge white-and-blue eyes with long black lashes and a green brow, a bulbous red nose with a white highlight, and an enormous grin of white blocky teeth outlined in black and red. A green-and-yellow harlequin ruff with purple and green spots surrounds the jaw, and one green-gloved hand with a yellow cuff rests on a small keyboard of white-and-black piano keys at bottom centre. A purple star patch sits on the cheek. The left third is a jagged white-and-pale-blue splash or speech-bubble shape containing the title in chunky multi-coloured bubble capitals, with a red flame-like background filling the top and a row of orange-yellow trumpet bells with jagged flames along the bottom. A crowd of small cartoon spectators in red, blue, green and brown clothing peer out from behind the clown on both sides, some with open mouths and sweat marks.