Sky Rider / Hi-Flyer

A wide landscape backglass with a pale blue sky streaked with clouds over a flat yellow-green fairground. Across the top a large multi-coloured hot air balloon envelope (olive, tan, crimson and dark blue vertical gores) forms a halo behind the title. The title HI FLYER is set in tall, narrow slab-serif capitals, cream with red shading and a dark drop shadow, with cursive script at upper left reading Chicago Coin. Two black angled score panels flank the centre: 1ST PLAYER above six reels reading 0 4 6 2 0, and 2ND PLAYER above five reels reading 0 0 0 0 0. Mid-picture a small open-gondola balloon with a smoking burner rises between green-yellow arrow shapes. Below, a huge collapsed red-and-yellow striped balloon envelope lies crumpled across the field like a deflated parachute. Behind the figures at right stand two upright balloons, one green-and-white striped and one blue, white and yellow. At the far right, a blonde woman in a cream sleeveless top and a red-haired man in a white shirt with a red necktie stand side by side, smiling. At the left edge a small blue-and-white PLAYERS panel carries two round windows. Small staff and spectators in hats walk across the field, and a white domed rotunda sits on the horizon.

Rectangular painted backglass set in a pale grey metal frame, shot straight on with the cabinet speaker grille visible below. Sky-blue sky fills the upper half behind a huge circular parachute canopy of alternating red, orange, green, yellow and white panels, its centre ringed in dark blue. Across the top, the title SKY RIDER is lettered in tall red block capitals with white highlights and a thin dark outline, arcing over the canopy. Four black score reels with white number windows sit in the upper and middle thirds: 1st PLAYER at upper left (reading 4 4 6 1 0), 2nd PLAYER at upper right (all zeros), 3rd PLAYER mid-left and 4th PLAYER mid-right (all zeros), each player caption in small yellow capitals on a black tab. Lower left is a white balloon-shaped badge outlined in blue, headed PLAYERS, with circled red and white numerals 1, 2, 3 and 4 stacked down it. The lower half shows a golden-yellow sandy beach. A huge red, orange and yellow striped collapsed parachute lies across the sand with small beachgoers walking beside it. A man in a blue suit runs to the left of centre, and a parachutist in a yellow suit descends under a yellow-and-white striped canopy at centre-right. Two large head-and-torso portraits dominate the lower right corner: a blonde woman in a white sleeveless top and a red-haired man in a pale blue shirt with a bright red tie. Two large blue-and-white striped balloons rise behind them. Art style is flat airbrushed 1970s illustration with heavy black outlines.