Sky Jump / Free Fall

Electromechanical playfield photographed under glass, dominated by bold flat-printed blocks of teal, mustard yellow, red and black. The centre is a huge black star on teal, with white-outlined block text reading WOW above it and 10X TARGET SCORES over it, flanked lower-centre by two orange-and-black flipper bats printed on the apron plastics. A diagonal bank of seven white square drop targets numbered 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 runs from mid-left up to the centre, with a row of pink, orange and cream round insert lamps fanning out beneath it over a red starburst. The top end carries three white plastic saucer caps on coloured bases (one labelled SPELL, one 1000, one EXTRA) with a web of wireform ramps and posts between them. White starburst plastics at both mid-playfield edges read 50 WHEN LIT, and triangular light boxes read 100 or 50 WHEN LIT. Lower playfield sides show slingshot plastics printed as diagonal racing stripes with numbers 1, 2, 3 in circles, and the cabinet apron at the very bottom is white with a red-and-blue FLIPPER BUTTONS ON SIDE OF CABINET arrow and instruction cards titled PAPA JONES, TILT and ENDS BALL.

Full-length 1960s-style electro-mechanical pinball playfield seen through the glass of a tailed coin-op cabinet, shot from above so the wooden cabinet rails, chrome ball guides, apron cards and the front coin door with two blue '25c 2 PLAYS' windows are all visible. The playfield art is an airbrushed rocket/space-age collage in hot pink, mustard yellow, teal-blue, orange-red and cream, built from hard-edged geometric shapes: a big cream five-pointed star, overlapping pink and teal rectangles, radiating pink-and-grey speed lines, and a red-outlined chevron band across the upper middle. Hardware is symmetric: two red domed pop bumpers near the top centre, three round '100' jet-bumper caps in white/blue/red rings, two teardrop-shaped saucer/ramp covers in swirling red-and-grey cosmic patterns flanking the centre, and matching drop-target banks in the upper left and upper right corners with the numerals 1 to 7 visible. A long chromed ball guide rail runs diagonally down the left side into the lower left. The lower apron is packed with white instruction placards edged in blue and red, a big blue arrow banner, and an American flag stripe panel at the right edge.

A rectangular backglass with a cream/tan outer border decorated with red chevron and vertical stripes, enclosing a window of brightly coloured artwork. The scene is an aerial view of a stylised city map made of interlocking blocks of olive green, blue, pink, tan and grey, scattered with tiny buildings, cars, boats and fields, overlaid with concentric searchlight circles. Dominating the lower left is a large caricature head of a grinning man in a red leather flying helmet with a white star, dark goggles and a lined hood. Two figures in red jumpsuits, parachute packs and cream helmets tumble head-first through the centre, arms flung wide. At upper right a red biplane with a spinning propeller flies across a rainbow-streaked sky, with a manufacturer's plate on its wing. A large black-bordered window at upper right contains a mechanical split-flap score reel reading 015,510. A small orange window at left reads PREVIOUS HIGH SCORE, and red numerals 1 to 10 with BONUS TO PLAY occupy the bottom right.

Square painted backglass showing a bird's-eye view of patchwork farmland in dozens of small irregular fields of mustard yellow, pink, teal, orange, green and pale blue, with white roads, farm buildings and a windpump dotted between them. At upper left a blue script word sits above a huge two-line title in block capitals, each letter red with a white inner line, black outline and a dark drop shadow. Across the upper right runs a black rectangular score window with five white mechanical reel apertures, over which a red biplane with a white star on its wing banks downward; a second large red biplane with a white star and radial engine fills the middle right edge. At bottom left a grinning pilot in a black leather flying helmet with goggles pushed up, a red-and-white striped cap and red scarf leans into frame with a bare hand raised, and the label BALLS TO PLAY sits beneath him. Centre frame a woman in a deep red one-piece flying suit, white helmet with blue visor and yellow scarf tumbles head-down, arms flung wide, with three tiny red biplanes in the distance behind her. A second large open hand enters from the bottom right, palm up, beside a white PREVIOUS HIGH SCORE panel. Fine flat comic colouring with heavy black outlines throughout.

Portrait-format backglass photograph, mounted in a cream-coloured surround with a red-and-white triangular chevron apron strip along the bottom. The artwork is a hand-painted 1960s air-adventure scene: an aerial view of a town laid out as a flat plan, with grey roads, rectangular rooftops, a small aerodrome and a white bullseye target, all on a broad checkerboard patchwork of olive green, teal, salmon pink, tan and slate squares. Top left is a huge red block-letter logo of two stacked words with a heavy cream drop shadow, with a small black script word above it. Top right, a red biplane with a spinning propeller banks in from the corner, above a black rounded rectangular housing containing four cream mechanical score reels. Two parachutists tumble towards the town below, one in a magenta top and maroon trousers, the other in a white-and-orange striped suit, with a third tiny red figure higher up. Bottom left is an enormous red-orange pilot helmet bearing a yellow star, a grinning cartoon face with black hair and a wide toothy mouth beneath it, and two giant outstretched hands reaching in from the left and lower right. Curved red and cream letters at bottom left read BALL IN PLAY. Dominant colours: red, cream, teal-green, olive.

A painted backglass in bright comic-book style. The whole background is a bird's-eye patchwork of farmland and town: irregular fields in yellow, green, orange, purple and pink separated by white hedgerows and roads, with small white-walled buildings with orange roofs, a large yellow-and-white concentric bullseye target, and a red-and-white runway strip lower centre. A red single-prop biplane with a spinning propeller, radial engine cowling and a pilot in its open cockpit flies in from the upper right, wing tilted, with a red pennant banner hanging above it. Down the centre, three airmen in red flying suits, white helmets and dark goggles fall head-first with arms flung out, tumbling toward the bullseye. Bottom left is an oversized close-up of a grinning pilot's head in a red crash helmet carrying a white star and blue-tinted goggles, next to a white panel reading 'BALLS TO PLAY'. Two large bare hands reach in from the left and right edges as if falling. 'SKY STAR' is lettered in large red block capitals with white outlines and a dark drop shadow, upper left. A black plastic score window with four white reels sits top right, with 'PREVIOUS HIGH SCORE' on a white plate below it.

Painted backglass with a wide turquoise border carrying six large flat red hearts and a wavy yellow ribbon motif down both side edges. Inside, a flat magenta-to-purple sky sits above a yellow-and-green cross-hatched ground plane. Lettering reads MILLIONS in small white capitals above a huge LOVERS logotype in fat rounded blue letters with white highlights, red drop shadow and black outline. To the right a red horizontal band holds an oval cartouche reading SLOP in green-outlined yellow letters, flanked by two tiny winged cherub figures, and below it a white window with six mechanical score reels showing 7 7 1,3 0 0. Four figures occupy the lower half: at left a blonde woman in a vast plumed red-and-white feathered hat and pale blue off-shoulder gown; beside her an older grey-haired woman in a white ruffled maid cap, white apron and red sleeves; centre a grinning man in a black top hat, white shirt, bright red bow tie and blue trousers, one arm raised beside a huge spoked wheel; at right a smiling blonde woman leaning out of the window of a boxy royal-blue horse-drawn carriage. A pink-and-cream turreted manor house stands behind them on the left. At bottom left, on a purple angled panel, BALLS TO PLAY in white capitals. Art style is flat, outlined, mid-century comic illustration with saturated primaries.

Translucent backglass set in a cream-coloured wooden frame with a stepped, notched bottom edge and two red-orange painted stripes running up each side. Artwork is a 1960s-style cartoon of a skydiver: a grinning man in a red-orange helmet with goggles and a white star on the helmet, seen head-and-shoulders at lower left, one arm reaching up. Below and centre-right he holds a small parachute with a white, red and yellow segmented canopy trailing behind him. A pale blue sky filled with flat pastel rectangles and wedges of pink, yellow, cream and mint reads as a stylised patchwork of fields far below. Title FREE FALL in tall condensed red-orange capitals with heavy white outline sits top left, with a small cursive word above it. A white rectangular window with black numerals reading 26,340 occupies the upper right. The numbers 1 to 10 run along the bottom in an arc.

A square illustrated backglass dominated by a bright patchwork of pastel rectangles seen from high above, like an aerial view of a town of coloured rooftops. Top left carries a large logo: cursive script 'Gottlieb's' in cream with dark outline above the tall block capitals 'SKY JUMP' in red with white internal striping and a black drop shadow, arched across two stacked lines. Top right is a black-framed mechanical score window with a white card showing the digits '07,800' in black, and a red single-prop biplane painted nose-down overlapping the top of the window, its wings running off the right edge. Three human figures appear to be falling towards the rooftops: a large smiling man in a red leather flying helmet with goggles and a white star badge, cut off at the bottom left corner with two outstretched bare hands reaching in from both the left and right edges; above him a figure in a white helmet and red-and-white panelled jumpsuit with arms flung wide; and further up a woman in a red outfit tumbling head-down. Small parachutes and tiny buildings dot the background.