Space Mission / Space Odyssey

Photograph of a solid-state-era pinball playfield, shot square-on and filling the frame. The surface is a swirl of dark blue and purple space/underwater wash, overlaid with large pale-pink block lettering reading BONUS and WING running across the lower-middle, plus a big turquoise arrow. The top arch is crowded: an ornate red-and-gold swinging-target plate, a cluster of round pop-bumper caps printed 100, a yellow-and-orange saucer on the upper right, and a green/teal rocket-shaped cutout on the upper left. A red pop-up target bank sits mid-field with white scoring inserts, flanked by yellow arrow insets for extra bonus. Teal lanes and star-studded side aprons run down both edges to two flippers at the bottom. Dominant colours are dark blue, red, turquoise/teal, yellow-gold and cream. Illustration is flat airbrushed sci-fi in a 1980s style; no human figures are present. Condition is good, with light play wear and a few scratches on the plastics.

Photograph of a complete electromechanical pinball machine seen from above and in front, so the wooden-framed glass-covered playfield fills the upper three-quarters and the stainless front cabinet with coin door, two red-glowing coin slots and ball trough appears below. The playfield is a bright 1970s airbrushed space scene: deep blue and teal swirling nebula over an orange-yellow radial burst, with a chrome arch rail across the top. At the top sits a cluster of three vertical pop-bumper caps and two large white mushroom pop-bumper caps reading 100. Two large flat orange discs sit left and right of centre at the top, each ringed by arrows and labelled ADVANCE BONUS / SWING TARGET. Down the middle runs a tall red bonus ladder panel of nine round white lamps in three columns of three, values 10000, 20000, 7000, 8000, 9000, 4000, 5000, 6000, with a yellow BONUS / DOUBLE BONUS triangular cap and a teal SINGLE PLAYER SHOOTS AGAIN WHEN LIT plate below. Two white-topped flippers sit low left and low right with plain steel inlanes. Teal geometric target panels with red and yellow triangles flank each side, and pink block lettering reading SWINGING WINNER spans the middle. Two card-suit decals, a portrait medallion of a helmeted figure, and two blue starburst rosettes decorate the lower mid-field.

A rectangular space-themed backglass inside a pale wooden frame, background a deep blue starfield streaked with pale green and white brush-swirls, with a large flat yellow sun disc at mid-left. Across the top a red script maker's name sits above the main title SPACE MISSION, set in huge block capitals with horizontal red-to-orange striping and a black drop shadow. Two spacecraft dominate: an upper-right green cylindrical rocket with a ribbed orange-brown flared nozzle opening towards the viewer, wrapped in orange banding and carrying two pale solar-panel wings; a lower-left teal-and-orange capsule craft with a ringed barrel, fins and a small round porthole. Four angled score windows with red-and-cream striped surrounds span the panel, each paired with a round yellow-and-green ringed medallion reading 1 UP, 2 UP, 3 UP, 4 UP. Blue numeric readouts 100,000 sit above the windows. Lower left holds the words BALL IN PLAY and GAME OVER; a cream wedge at bottom right carries red text, four red numbered circles and a line of black lettering. No human figures; a small pale crescent moon appears low centre.

A painted backglass in a comic-book airbrush style, dominated by a deep blue outer-space background streaked with white starbursts and pale-blue nebula wisps. Across the top, in huge block capitals shaded red with white horizontal striping and a black outline, is the two-word title SPACE ODYSSEY, with a small white script maker name above it. Below the title sit two horizontal scoring strips on black panels: the left one headed 1st PLAYER in blue italic letters with a row of small digit windows and a red-and-yellow roundel marked 1 UP, the right headed 2nd PLAYER with its digit windows and a matching roundel marked 2 UP. The central illustration shows a huge white-and-yellow sun low on the left throwing out long white rays, and a long multi-coloured optical instrument running diagonally from lower left to upper right: a pale blue and white ribbed barrel, a dark section with an American flag motif, an olive-green tube, and at the upper right end a large orange-rimmed circular lens or dial with a white face, black tick marks and a central black hand. A blue solar-panel lattice of small squares angles up behind it, and small white-suited figures are scattered on the blue ground below. The bottom band is white with a single line of black instruction text, two red numbered circles and a red maker name.