Made by
- Design
- Wayne Neyens
- Art
- Roy Parker
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- white
- red
- yellow
Fingerprint: 'SEVEN SEAS' logo with 'S.S. GOTTLIEB' fishing boats, grinning boy fisherman in red shirt standing rock left with rod bent, blonde mermaid in green tail red rocks right, lighthouse, leaping fish and dolphin, painted cartoon sea-leisure scene
The most memorable element is the enormous white-and-red shadowed SEVEN SEAS logo slung across the centre, flanked by two comic-book boats that both carry the name S.S. GOTTLIEB on their hulls. Second is the grinning boy fisherman in a red shirt standing on a rock at the left edge with his fishing rod bent. Third is the blonde mermaid perched on red-and-yellow rocks at the right, rod in hand. Also distinctive is a small red-and-yellow 4-card score reel window under the 2-player boat that reads a P A P. The whole board is packed with comic-strip sea imagery: leaping fish, a dolphin, a lighthouse and a rower in a rowing boat along the bottom.
Setting
- Open sea with pale green choppy water
- Light blue sky with clouds
- Rocky shoreline at the left
- Red and yellow rock stack at the right
- Horizon lighthouse
Symbols
- Cartoon boats
- Fishing rods
- Lighthouse
- Dolphin
- Leaping fish
- Waves and foam
- Circled player numbers 1 and 2
- Rocks
- Rowing boat with oars
Lettering
- Fat white serif capitals with heavy red drop shadow and black outline for the main title; yellow block capitals with black outline for player's; red brush script with white outline for the 1 player / 2 player and ball to play labels; red serif and script lettering inside white panels with yellow borders for the instruction boxes; black cursive script for gottlieb's 2-player
Themes
- Fishing
- Seafaring
- Mermaid
- Boats
- Leisure
- Two player versus play
Title on it
- Seven seas
Text on it
- S.S. GOTTLIEB
- 1
- 2
- 1 PLAYER
- 2 PLAYER
- PLAYER'S
- 1 or 2 Can Play
- AT THE SAME TIME
- It's More Fun to Compete!
- A GAME OF SKILL
- Gottlieb's 2-Player
- SEVEN SEAS
- BALL TO PLAY
- D. Gottlieb & Co.
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Child | Grinning boy fisherman at the far left, standing on a flat tan rock, wearing a red short-sleeved shirt with a white collar and bright green trousers, holding a long fishing rod raised over his shoulder with the line hanging down |
| Woman | Blonde mermaid at the right, long wavy yellow hair, bare shoulders, seated on red and yellow rocks, lower body a green scaly fish tail curled up, holding a fishing rod angled up to the left |
| Man | Man at the bottom centre in a small green rowing boat, wearing a straw boater hat, sunglasses and a white shirt, arms raised holding oars, white wake streaming behind the boat |
| Animal | Grey-blue dolphin leaping out of the water left of centre, mouth open showing teeth |
| Animal | Spray of leaping silver fish bursting from the water at the lower left |
| Vehicle | Left cartoon fishing boat with red hull, four white windows showing a comma-like mark and the letters j, 7, 5, a circled red 1 on the cabin roof, small flag on the mast |
| Vehicle | Right cartoon fishing boat with white and red hull, four windows showing a letter and the letters p, a, p, a circled yellow 2 on the cabin roof, mast with a red flag and a small wheelhouse |
| Other | Red and white striped lighthouse on the distant horizon between the two boats |
A painted cartoon-style backglass showing a sea-and-sailing scene. Across the middle sits a large SEVEN SEAS logo in fat white serif capitals with a heavy red drop shadow, with cursive Gottlieb's 2-Player script above it. Pale green choppy water with white foam under a light blue sky fills the upper half, deeper blue the lower. Two cartoon boats flank a yellow PLAYER'S banner at the top: the left has a red hull, white windows showing J 7 5, a circled red 1 and S.S. GOTTLIEB on its hull; the right has a white and red hull, windows showing P A P, a circled yellow 2 and also S.S. GOTTLIEB. A red striped lighthouse stands on the horizon between, with fish leaping from the water. Two white instruction boxes with red lettering sit above the logo. A grinning boy in a red shirt and green trousers stands on a rock at the left with a rod; a blonde mermaid in a green tail sits on red rocks at the right with a rod; below, a man in a straw hat rows.