Space Riders

A brightly coloured early-1980s solid-state playfield, photographed under glass with heavy reflection streaks, laid out as a big V of orange-and-cream wire ramps against a black starfield. Two large circular pop bumper caps sit high on the field, each printed as a pale disc bearing a black peace-troika style emblem, flanked by blonde woman's faces in profile and small red-and-white EXTRA BALL lamps. Down the centre runs a wedge of red and yellow chevrons carrying a column of round drop-target lamps, flanked by two giant cream-coloured panels with black vertical lettering reading BONUS, each topped by a yellow 'DOUBLE' and 'TRIPLE' box and a star medallion. A large sunburst explodes in red and yellow on the right-hand side wall. The lower third is a plain light-blue apron and lower deck carrying a yellow ATARI logo, a red two-digit ball-credit window, a cream instruction card headed SPACE RIDERS, and a small white replay card. Metal hardware includes two lower flippers, two slingshots, a wire gate, ball-shooter lane on the right, and a raised blue plastic ramp cover.

Rectangular backglass translite in a yellowed wooden cabinet frame with a dark inner border, filled edge to edge with a bright airbrushed comic illustration in saturated blue, magenta-red, cream and orange. Across the top band the title SPACE RIDER is painted in tall rounded outline capitals, pale blue letters with a magenta-red outline and cream highlight, flanked by two magenta chevron stripes. The artwork shows a futuristic blue hovercraft/speedster with a huge ribbed turbine wheel dominating the lower left, a swept fin canopy, a long striped exhaust boom running to the lower right, and a seated male pilot in a red suit and white-red helmet. Beside him leans a blonde woman with enormous swept white-blonde hair, a cream top and short red skirt, tall red boots. In the background are a domed pink tower with a needle spire, a blue domed building, a white cloud-like mass, a small red-suited figure on a motorcycle at upper left, and two more figures at upper right, one in a red jacket and one with a pale blue helmet beside a large wheel. The white ATARI logo sits on an orange triangle at the left edge.

Illuminated backglass panel framed by a narrow black border and a plain white inner margin, photographed at a slight angle with a milky glare streak washing down the left third. The artwork is wild 1970s airbrush and screenprint in orange, red, blue and cream. Across the arched top band, in huge red-orange script letters with a white keyline and dark drop shadow, is the single word SPACERIDERS, set against a fan of radiating orange and cream speed lines on black. The centre is dominated by an enormous chrome-and-blue wedge-shaped hovercraft or space speeder, drawn in foreshortened perspective so its pointed nose aims at the lower left and its great black treaded rear tyre fills the bottom left corner; its flanks are striped blue, white and red with chrome vents, exhaust tubes and a bubble canopy. Leaning against the craft at centre is a blonde woman in a gold-yellow outfit with tall glossy red boots, her hair streaming back in a wind-blown curl. Immediately behind her a second figure in a red suit wears a white-and-gold peaked space helmet with a dark visor, one arm raised. Small racing vehicles, a rocket nose and a striped tower-like shape crowd the mid-ground behind them. Pinstriped red, orange, cream and blue speed lines radiate outward from the craft across the whole background. A tiny white circular emblem sits in the lower left; no other small print is legible.