Sea Scare

Full-cabinet view of a sea-monster themed electro-mechanical playfield, shot from above so the sea-green cabinet, coin door, START badge and the whole playfield show at once. The art is flat, bright comic-book watercolour in hot pink, red, yellow, cream and sky blue. The dominant figure is a huge rearing green sea serpent with a pink-and-red scaly head, open fanged jaws, a yellow belly and a long checkered dark-green body curling down the centre-left. Beside its head stands a small mermaid-like woman with long dark hair and a pink top. Lower centre is a cream sailing ship with a red and blue striped hull on stylised blue-and-white waves. An arc of round cream bonus lamps curves down the centre, flanked by pink plastic lamp covers glowing magenta. Three round star-printed pop-bumper caps run diagonally up the upper left. Two white rubber flippers with red rings point inwards at the lower centre, flanked by tall pink-guarded slingshots, with a red DOUBLE WHEEL LIT BONUS disc between them. The cabinet paint is crazed with age.

Straight-on photograph of a whole electro-mechanical pinball machine viewed from the player side through the playfield glass, with the cabinet front and coin door filling the lower third. The playfield wood is busy and brightly coloured, with saturated pink and magenta areas against pale blue and cream. Several tall pink/magenta plastic posts and round white-topped bumper caps stand in rows across the upper half, with two larger white domes nearer the middle. Wire ball guides arc over the top. Two small cream-yellow instruction cards with dense black print are mounted on the left side, and a paler card sits right of centre; their body text is too small to resolve. On the cabinet front, a cream rectangular plate at left reads FLIPPER BUTTON and a matching plate at right carries the same words. Below them a scratched silver-grey coin door has two vertical coin slots, a round service-button hole and a worn coin-return flap. The cabinet sides are pale green with a crazed, cracked finish. Strong glare and reflections streak the playfield glass. No title lettering, logo or character artwork was readable in this photograph.

Printed backglass with a broad pale-green crackle-glaze border framing a rounded-rectangle picture. Lettering: the word 'SEA' runs vertically in chunky dark-red block capitals with black drop shadow down the left of centre, and 'SCARE' continues horizontally across the middle in the same fat bevelled red capitals outlined black, so the title reads SEA SCARE. Above it, a cream bar carries 'EURO' at left, a hand-lettered credit panel reading 'PETACO' with a small figure emblem, and 'FLIP' at right. A black-framed window near the top shows a mechanical counter reading 100.500 on cream reels. Bottom centre reads 'BALL IN PLAY' in white-and-yellow capitals over a pink-clad thigh. Art is flat, heavily outlined comic illustration: a blonde woman in an orange two-piece and jewelled headdress stands on the back of a huge sea serpent with a purple-pink mane, bulging yellow eyes and a gaping fanged mouth. Below, a boat's gunwale carries a row of shouting pirates in red, blue, green and striped clothing, while a pink tentacled monster reaches from the right into the water. Background is a green-blue sea with yellow light beams, cliffs, a coastal village and distant hills.