Rocket III

A vertically photographed 1960s-style electro-mechanical pinball playfield set into a chrome-railed cabinet, photographed head-on with the lower apron and coin door visible below. The playfield is dominated by lime, olive and mid-green, with a large orange rocket on a curving upper-left orbit lane and a second orange-and-silver rocket angled down the upper-right. At top centre a painted swirl of blue, orange, yellow and white smoke forms a vortex on a green circle, flanked by two red-bumper caps and a fan of white, blue and pink pop-bumper caps on posts. Five white starburst bumpers with blue-and-red sunburst decals sit in two rows across the upper half. Centre playfield carries a black arrow-head panel with white circular insets spelling R-O-C-K-E-T, flanked by a yellow triangle and a pink triangle. Below is a big painted orange-brown globe with deep blue sea, marked 10 on each side, and two triangular lower pockets each containing three painted men in white shirts and blue jackets looking upward. Two chrome-faced flippers sit low and wide with black rubber. Lower field carries a white PLANET BONUS card, a magenta PANORAMA card, a blue cursive company script with a manufacturing line beneath, and a 5 BALLS 10c card.

A space-themed backglass dominated by a huge blood-red sun disc with ragged flame-like corona, overlaid by a large cream-and-pink 3-D block-letter title reading ROCKET III, with the maker name Bally in flowing black cursive script tucked above the middle of the title. The background is a deep navy blue field crossed by thin pale-blue and white arcing orbit lines. Down the left side runs a vertical solar-system chart: nine planets, each a painted disc with its own colours and surface markings, joined by the orbit lines and labelled in yellow numerals with white-outlined capitals - 1 MERCURY (grey and tan, half-shadowed), 2 VENUS (green and blue swirls), 3 EARTH (red-orange and pale sea-green with a visible Africa/Europe landmass), 4 MOON (small grey-blue crescent), 5 MARS (rust-red), 6 JUPITER (cream with red and mustard horizontal bands and a red oval), 7 SATURN (pale olive globe with a wide flat green-and-gold ring), 8 URANUS (green with darker green blotches), 9 NEPTUNE (pale blue and teal banding). A slim rocket with orange flame exhaust climbs diagonally into the sun from the lower left. Bottom left a cartoon astronaut in a puffy white-and-teal striped spacesuit with a large golden-yellow bubble helmet lies strapped in a green harness, one gloved hand raised. Top right a black angled housing holds four mechanical score reels reading 2639 on cream windows in a gold band. A vertical green lamp panel at lower left reads BALL IN PLAY, and a red TILT window and a semicircular gauge with two rows of small lamps run along the bottom edge.