Sky Divers

Photograph of a pinball playfield shot at a slight angle, with the upper two-thirds filling the frame and the lower deck out of view. The upper playfield is painted as a pale blue sky with white cloud patches, crossed by a broad curved metal ball guide rail and a clear plastic ramp running across the top. A large gold-and-yellow cursive title in heavy script spans the top arc, but its letters are almost entirely hidden behind a row of red translucent pop-bumper caps and only fragments of the letterforms are resolvable, so the wording cannot be read. In front of the title sit three round bumpers: two with green caps and one with a pink-red cap, each printed '10 POINTS' on a white starburst. Red five-pointed star banners carry the words 'BONUS GATE', 'FREE BALL GATE' and 'OPENS BONUS GATE WHEN LIT'; yellow starbursts read '50 POINTS WHEN LIT' and '100 PTS'. A red instruction line curves across the middle over the blue: 'HIT ALL THREE TO OPEN YELLOW BUMPERS BONUS GATE'. Art in the lower-left corner shows a stylised blue-and-white rocket on a stand. Small pictures of the American flag and an aircraft appear in the top-right lane.

Translucent-style air-barn backglass in a flat 1950s comic-strip cartoon style, dominated by pale turquoise sky with soft white cloud patches. The centre-right is taken by a huge title: the word 'Bally' in slanted red script with a white outline, sitting above 'SKY DIVERS' in enormous crimson red block capitals, each letter shaded with white highlights and a dark navy drop shadow, arcing slightly across the glass. Above the title at upper right is a yellow wing-shaped panel containing four white rectangular windows, and above that a blue-and-red twin-engine propeller aircraft flying to the right with small white registration lettering on its fuselage and a red tail fin. The upper left corner holds two round winged badges side by side: a yellow-and-green winged wheel with a big yellow 'A' over a red aeroplane silhouette, and a red-and-white striped winged wheel with a big white 'B' over a red aeroplane. The whole left third is a two-column jump chart: ten white circles numbered 1 to 10 in a slightly wandering vertical run, each beside a small parachutist or red aeroplane, over a green field strewn with open yellow-and-white and orange-and-white parachutes. Along the bottom right stands a group of eight smiling cartoon parachutists in front of a yellow hangar, the front figure a blonde woman in orange overalls, green turtleneck and yellow gloves holding a blue revolver. Dominant colours: turquoise, red, yellow, white.

A painted, comic-style backglass set against a pale blue sky with soft white cloud streaks and distant green hills. The right half is dominated by a huge two-line title of block capitals in red with white highlights and heavy black drop shadow, set on a yellow-green hangar wall. Above it sits a yellow winged oval panel with four reel windows showing blank, 7, 4 and 6, and a dark blue single-propeller monoplane with orange trim flying in the upper right. Across the lower right stands a group of seven smiling cartoon figures in aviation clothing: a blonde woman in an orange cap and red bib overalls over a mustard turtleneck holding two blue canisters in the foreground, and behind her a man in a tan leather flying suit and brown helmet with goggles, a woman in an olive jumpsuit, a blonde woman in a magenta jumpsuit with a ponytail bow and a cream round bag printed with red stars, a grey-haired man in a blue shirt and white cap, a red-haired man in a white suit with blue trim raising one arm, and a partly hidden figure with a large beige bag. The left third is a score ladder: two winged roundels lettered A and B, each above a small red-brown aeroplane, above two columns of numbered parachutists 1 to 10.