Also known as SS
2000 · Stern
Sharkey's Shootout
Known for Pool-ball drop targets, 8-ball scoop, Far-right loop and Pool Saves. Dim pool hall interior with a wooden back bar, bottles and glasses on back-bar shelves, green banker's lamp hanging over the bar and purple-felt pool table filling the lower third.
- Year
- 2000
- Maker
- Stern
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Players
- 4
Known for
- Target
Pool-ball drop targets
- scoop
8-ball scoop
- loop
Far-right loop
- buttons
Pool Saves
- Mode
Trick Shot
- Mode
8-Ball
- Mode
9-Ball
- Wizard mode
The Web
On the playfield
Ramp 1
- Mystery ramp
Orbits 2
- Far-right loop loop
- Inner loop loop
Hole 1
- 8-ball scoop scoop
Targets 2
- Pool-ball drop targets
- Roving drops
Lanes 4
- Under-ramp lane
- CUE lanes
- POOL lanes
- Center top lane
Control 1
- Pool Saves buttons
Lights 2
- Lock insert
- Combos insert
On the backglass
Who and what
- man Stocky middle-aged moustached man, black cowboy hat with brown band, red shirt, black-and-white cow-print vest, turquoise squash-style necklace, clutching a wad of banknotes, standing far left foreground
- woman Pale-skinned woman with enormous glossy blue-black hair, heavily arched black brows, red lips, dark navy low-cut top; lying flat on her stomach across the purple pool table, sighting down a wooden cue held in both hands
- man Bald, stocky man in a white shirt holding a pool cue vertically at the back bar, grinning
- alien Grey-skinned alien with an oversized smooth head and huge black almond eyes, in a black suit, holding a pool cue upright
- man Smiling man in a tan fedora and camel overcoat with a red rose on the lapel, holding a cue upright
- woman Tall blonde woman with swept-back hair, black cat-eye mask, strapless pale pink/lilac dress, holding a cue upright at the right
Setting
- Dim pool hall interior with a wooden back bar
- Bottles and glasses on back-bar shelves
- Green banker's lamp hanging over the bar
- Purple-felt pool table filling the lower third
Text on it
- Sharkey's
- SHOOTOUT
- TOURNAMENT EDITION
- Featuring
- Jeanette Lee
- "THE BLACK WIDOW"
- STERN
- IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE
- IMPERIAL
How it plays
-
Modes 5
- Trick Shot
- Bumper Pool
- 8-Ball 8-ball
- 9-Ball
- Black Widow
-
Multiballs 1
- Stampede Multiball
-
Goals 2
- PAYOFF
- Prize Money
-
Wizard modes 1
- The Web
Made by
- Design & Mechanics
- John Borg
- Art
- John Youssi
- Software
- Dwight Sullivan
- Software
- Keith P. Johnson
- Software
- Lonnie D. Ropp
- Sound & Music
- Kyle Johnson
- Display animation
- Mark Galvez
The cast
- Jeanette Lee
- Tex
Reference
Linked terms
- Pool-ball drop targets also called Seven pool-ball drops
- 8-ball scoop also called 8-ball finishing scoop
- Far-right loop also called Virtual Lock loop
- Lock also called Virtual Lock
- Pool Saves also called Post Saves
- Mystery ramp also called Mystery Ball
- Prize Money also called Winnings
- The Web also called Web Multiball
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- purple
- brown
- black
- cream
Fingerprint: 'Sharkey's SHOOTOUT' with dollar signs replacing O letters, banknote-clutching cowboy in cow-print vest facing grey alien in black suit, both holding pool cues like rifles, pale enormous-haired woman flat on purple pool table sighting cue, oversized billiard balls at corners, pool-hall bar scene.
The word SHOOTOUT spelled with two dollar-sign symbols replacing the letter O letters, on a wood-grain plank banner. A banknote-clutching cowboy in a cow-print vest stands toe-to-toe with a big-headed grey alien in a black suit, both gripping pool cues like rifles. A pale, enormous-haired woman lies flat across the purple pool table in the centre foreground, sighting down a cue like a rifle, flanked by oversized glossy billiard balls in the lower corners.
Setting
- Dim pool hall interior with a wooden back bar
- Bottles and glasses on back-bar shelves
- Green banker's lamp hanging over the bar
- Purple-felt pool table filling the lower third
Symbols
- Dollar signs used as letter o in the title
- Three billiard balls (green, red-and-white striped, orange)
- Cue sticks held like rifles
- Bundle of banknotes
- Green chalk cube
- Banker's lamp
- Bar bottles
- Red rose on lapel
- Cow-print vest pattern
- Eyeglasses on the bald man
- Circular white medallion with a small cartoon figure at bottom centre
- Yellow and black tournament notice box at bottom right
Lettering
- Shootout in huge cream slab-serif block capitals with heavy black outline and gold shadow on a wood-plank banner; red brush-script sharkey's overlapping above; tournament edition in small white letterspaced capitals below; featuring in yellow serif with blue outline, jeanette lee in large yellow serif with blue shadow, and the black widow in small white capitals beneath
Themes
- Pool hall
- Billiards
- Gangster parody
- Showdown
- Card-playing cast
- Western parody
Title on it
- Sharkey's shootout
Text on it
- Sharkey's
- SHOOTOUT
- TOURNAMENT EDITION
- Featuring
- Jeanette Lee
- "THE BLACK WIDOW"
- STERN
- IT'S MORE FUN TO COMPETE
- IMPERIAL
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Stocky middle-aged moustached man, black cowboy hat with brown band, red shirt, black-and-white cow-print vest, turquoise squash-style necklace, clutching a wad of banknotes, standing far left foreground |
| Woman | Pale-skinned woman with enormous glossy blue-black hair, heavily arched black brows, red lips, dark navy low-cut top; lying flat on her stomach across the purple pool table, sighting down a wooden cue held in both hands |
| Man | Bald, stocky man in a white shirt holding a pool cue vertically at the back bar, grinning |
| Alien | Grey-skinned alien with an oversized smooth head and huge black almond eyes, in a black suit, holding a pool cue upright |
| Man | Smiling man in a tan fedora and camel overcoat with a red rose on the lapel, holding a cue upright |
| Woman | Tall blonde woman with swept-back hair, black cat-eye mask, strapless pale pink/lilac dress, holding a cue upright at the right |
A painted 'Sharkey's SHOOTOUT TOURNAMENT EDITION' backglass. A wood-grain horizontal banner strip across the top carries the word 'SHOOTOUT' in huge cream block capitals with black outlines and dollar signs substituted for the two letter Os, with red cursive 'Sharkey's' above it and 'TOURNAMENT EDITION' in white letterspaced capitals below. The scene is a dim pool-hall bar: a bottle-lined back bar with a green shaded lamp, six human characters arranged as a shootout line-up. Front left, a stocky moustached man in a black cowboy hat, red shirt, black-and-white cow-print vest and turquoise squash necklaces, clutching a bundle of banknotes. Centre foreground, a pale woman with huge blue-black hair, arched brows, red lips and a dark low-cut top, leaning flat over a purple pool table and sighting along a cue. Behind her, a bald man in a white shirt holding a cue upright, a grey alien in a black suit with huge black almond eyes holding a cue, a smiling man in a tan fedora and camel coat with a red rose, and at right a blonde woman in a black cat-eye mask and pale pink dress holding a cue. Large glossy green, red-and-white striped, and orange billiard balls crop the bottom corners; banknotes and a green chalk cube sit on the cloth.