1969 · Williams
Smart Set
Known for Big Wheel, Top A and B, Jet Bumpers and Side Eject Pockets. Flat turquoise sea and sky with no clear horizon line, white modern city skyline silhouette at far left, small motorboat on the water at centre and tropical palm-tree motif rather than a literal beach.
- Year
- 1969
- Maker
- Williams
- Type
- Electro-mechanical
- Display
- Score reels
- Players
- 4
Known for
- Toy
Big Wheel
- Lane
Top A and B
- Bumper
Jet Bumpers
- Hole
Side Eject Pockets
- Goal
10 Times Value
- Goal
Wheel 20
On the playfield
Toy 1
- Big Wheel
Holes 2
- Side Eject Pockets
- Top Saucer
Bumper 1
- Jet Bumpers
Targets 3
- Middle side standups
- Lower side standups
- Up Post and Down Post
Lanes 3
- Top A and B
- Wheel Value rollovers rollover
- Out lanes
Post or gate 1
- Center Post post
Lights 1
- 10 Times Value lamp lamp
On the backglass
Who and what
- woman Dark-haired woman standing dead centre, blue turban wrapped round her head, red lips, floral-patterned bikini top with green leaves, arms folded across her chest
- woman Blonde woman at lower centre-right, long wavy hair, blue bikini top, one arm resting on the pale blue convertible, holding a drink glass
- man Smiling man at lower centre, white cap, white-and-yellow horizontal striped shirt, head tilted up towards the central woman
Setting
- Flat turquoise sea and sky with no clear horizon line
- White modern city skyline silhouette at far left
- Small motorboat on the water at centre
- Tropical palm-tree motif rather than a literal beach
Text on it
- SMART
- SET
- SMART SET
- 1ST PLAYER
- 2ND PLAYER
- 3RD PLAYER
- 4TH PLAYER
- TO CAN YON
- 1933
- Computer Service Corporation
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
How it plays
-
Goals 2
- 10 Times Value
- Wheel 20
Made by
- Design
- Norm Clark
- Art
- Christian Marche
Reference
Linked terms
- Big Wheel also called Wheel also called center wheel
- Top A and B also called A and B also called A-B
- Jet Bumpers also called pop bumpers
- Side Eject Pockets also called side saucers
- Wheel Value rollovers also called Lower Wheel Value
- 10 Times Value also called Times Value
- Wheel 20 also called 20+extra ball
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- turquoise
- black
- yellow
- red
Fingerprint: Four towering black palm trees framing each side hosting white score reel windows and giant coloured player captions, SMART SET in oversized tall yellow art-deco serif letters SMALL over SET, woman in blue turban at centre with blonde bikini-clad woman and grinning man in striped shirt, tropical resort beach scene
The unmistakable first memory is four towering black palm trees, two per side, each trunk hosting a white numeric score reel window and a giant coloured player caption - a four-player tropical resort scene rather than the usual single-player layout. Over the top, SMART SET is spelled out in oversized tall yellow art-deco serif letters stacked SMALL over SET. A woman in a blue turban stands arms-folded dead centre, with a blonde bikini-clad woman and a grinning man in a yellow-and-white striped shirt clustered around a pale blue convertible at the bottom. A tiny white city skyline on the far-left horizon and the TO CAN YON 1933 badge in the bottom-right corner are the small details that pin it down.
Setting
- Flat turquoise sea and sky with no clear horizon line
- White modern city skyline silhouette at far left
- Small motorboat on the water at centre
- Tropical palm-tree motif rather than a literal beach
Symbols
- Four black palm trees
- Four white numeric reel windows
- Circled digits 1 2 3 4 in the bottom right
- Small motorboat
- City skyline silhouette
Lettering
- Hand-painted decorative script for the player captions in bright flat colours with black keylines; tall condensed art-deco serif capitals with red drop shadow for the main title; tiny plain block text for the copyright line along the top edge
Themes
- Tropical resort
- Beach
- Four player
- Tourism advertising
- Palm trees
Title on it
- Smart set
Text on it
- SMART
- SET
- SMART SET
- 1ST PLAYER
- 2ND PLAYER
- 3RD PLAYER
- 4TH PLAYER
- TO CAN YON
- 1933
- Computer Service Corporation
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Woman | Dark-haired woman standing dead centre, blue turban wrapped round her head, red lips, floral-patterned bikini top with green leaves, arms folded across her chest |
| Woman | Blonde woman at lower centre-right, long wavy hair, blue bikini top, one arm resting on the pale blue convertible, holding a drink glass |
| Man | Smiling man at lower centre, white cap, white-and-yellow horizontal striped shirt, head tilted up towards the central woman |
Wide backglass on a flat turquoise sea-and-sky background, framed by four large black palm trees, each trunk carrying a white score window: 0732 on the top-left, 0000 on the other three. Each window is captioned in thick painted script - 1st PLAYER in hot pink-red, 2nd PLAYER in lime green, 3rd PLAYER in yellow-green, 4th PLAYER in orange-red. The title SMART SET sits at top centre in tall decorative yellow serif letters with red shadow, SMALL over SET. Three figures in the middle ground: a woman in a blue turban and floral bikini top stands arms-folded at centre; a blonde woman in a blue bikini leans on a pale blue open-top car at lower centre-right; a smiling man in a white-and-yellow striped shirt and small cap stands at lower centre. At far left a white city skyline silhouette sits on the horizon, with a small yellow boat on the water at centre. A round badge at bottom right reads TO CAN YON above 1933, beside circled digits 1 2 3 4.