Star Explorer

A brightly lit single-level playfield on a pale cream/tan background, dominated by four huge red-and-yellow comic explosion starbursts with spiky black-edged rays. Five round pop-bumper caps, each a white disc with a red starburst ring and black '100', sit scattered across the upper and middle field. Yellow scripted '5000' appears twice near the top, with '2,000' and '1,000' further down the left lane and a vertical column of red '1000' numerals down the right side. Left edge carries vertical 'DIVE BOMB ALLEY' lettering in red and yellow, with 'SLAM' in big white block letters beneath it. Curved red-outlined 'BOMB ALLEY' script arcs across the right-middle, next to 'ZIP ZAP ZING' stacked in yellow and a vertical 'WARNING' beside three stacked yellow ovals. A long yellow horizontal cross-brace with two round speaker-like circles spans the lower centre, flanked by a bell graphic labelled 'BELL 100' on the left and a 'SAW' disc-and-blade graphic with a big red '100' on the right. Lower centre shows a black volcano silhouette with orange lava and a red explosion at its base between the two white flippers. Bottom right holds blue script 'Flying Eoys' above a small white copyright block. Hardware includes clear ball guides, yellow-tinted wire ramps, three white rubber-ringed bumpers, and a metal ball-return trough at the lower right.

A landscape-format painted backglass, framed in a dark brown wooden cabinet, dominated by a flat mid-blue sky crossed by long black-and-white speed streaks. Top left carries a large logo reading STAR EXPLORER: STAR stacked above EXPLORER in chunky white block capitals with orange-red inline shading and a black outline, the two words slightly overlapping. Near the centre is a yellow-and-black starburst explosion with the word ZAP in slanted yellow comic lettering outlined black. Floating at left-centre is a grey boxy satellite or space station with blue window panels, black solar-panel wings and a dish, and below it a fat retro rocket with a red nose, white body stripes and a jagged orange-yellow flame trail, plus a small striped flying saucer. Lower left holds a cracked, cratered orange-red planetoid rimmed with yellow flame. On the right a single figure dominates: a slim humanoid in a bright yellow space suit with black belt, black boots and a chest roundel, wearing a white helmet with a dark visor and a long pointed yellow beak-like snout, one arm outstretched, posed flying diagonally downward-left. Comic-book airbrushed style, heavy black inking, no score windows, no instruction text, no visible manufacturer or copyright line.

A rectangular backglass in a bold, flat Second World War aviation cartoon style. The panel is all sky: pale blue with stylised white and lavender clouds, cut by black bomb-bursts and radiating speed lines. Upper left, huge cream-yellow block letters with thick red outline and black shadow arch over a jagged red starburst. Three dark score windows sit left of centre - two blank smoked panels above, a lower one holding a red seven-segment readout glowing 1769508. Small white-on-blue labels read 2 BALL IN PLAY; a red badge carries SAME over OVER. Two blue-and-white biplanes with black Iron Cross roundels and yellow wing trim bank steeply across the centre and lower left, trailing black smoke and orange flame. A huge blue-and-white radial engine and propeller disc fills the right half, lettered RATATATATAT in red. A small red-and-yellow triplane and part of another red aircraft crowd the lower centre and upper right. Heavy black outlines throughout; the panel sits in a varnished wooden frame with light scuffing.