Solar Ride

A photographed electro-mechanical style playfield under glass with wooden side rails and a metal coin-box front panel showing a 25 cent window. The playfield is a bright yellow-orange 'SOLAR RIDE' carnival/space-fairground layout. Across the top a curved banner reads ADVANCE BONUS MULTIPLIER above a row of small red pop-bumper caps. Four round pop bumpers with red bases and white star-and-swirl plastic caps sit in the upper third, flanked by yellow starburst badges reading 500 and EXTRA BONUS. A large circular BONUS MULTIPLIER spinner with a green rim and a pink sunburst centre occupies the middle. Left and right centre are curved drop-target banks scored 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, 10000 and 20,000, with a round SUNBURST/JACKPOT/ADVANCE target in the centre. Artwork includes a grinning clown head in a red conical polka-dot hat at top left, a wild-haired man's head at left, a blonde woman in a yellow outfit at right, stars, clouds, an EXTRA BALL disc and a red star. A large white instruction card with blue and red chevron borders fills the lower third, alongside a white replay-scoring card and a D. Gottlieb & Co. signature panel.

A square electro-mechanical backglass set in a red-orange painted wooden frame. A huge italicised title logo, SOLAR RIDE, in red letters with white and yellow outlines and a dark drop shadow, spans the whole top edge on a black band. A painted rider with long orange-blonde hair streaming behind, a red helmet, blue jacket, green trousers and white boots leans forward over a rearing pink-and-purple horse with a white mane and tail, one foreleg raised; the horse and rider burst out of a jagged yellow starburst against a black starfield. The rider holds a silver horn-like object. Four rectangular score windows with black reels and white digit wheels sit at the four corners, each paired with a red player number in a yellow circle: 1 upper left, 2 upper right, 3 lower left, 4 lower right. A narrow vertical magenta panel runs down the centre reading MATCH TO MATCH above glowing blue digits 15 30. Radiating yellow and blue speed lines, coloured balls and dots fill the black background.

A square, front-lit backglass bordered by a wide cream/yellow painted wooden frame. The artwork is on black: red and yellow sunburst rays radiate from a lower-left focal point, with a blue-grey cratered planet at top left, a yellow-ringed planet and scattered red and orange planets on the right, plus rows of tiny white stars and three slim rockets on the right edge. Four numeric score windows (two stacked reels per player, cream digit cards with black numerals, red and yellow trim) fill the upper half; above and between them are small circles containing the numerals 1, 2, 3 and 4 in red on pale grounds. Down the left edge a vertical panel reads PLAYERS 1 2 3 4 with the instruction SCAN R-1 AT THE SAME TIME. Lower left shows a single rider in a red helmet, red leathers and boots, hunched low over handlebars, riding a long-tailed red rocket-shaped machine with a pointed nose stretching right, set against a spiky yellow starburst. BALL IN PLAY is lettered in white on the right. The title runs along the bottom in slanted red block capitals with yellow inline and white outline. Bottom right carries a small white rounded badge.