Starship Troopers

A photographed solid-state playfield seen under glass in its cabinet, with the whole lower deck covered in bright airbrushed sci-fi art and a dense scatter of plastic ramps, guides and lit inserts. Dominant colours are orange-red flame and explosion effects across the upper and mid field, silver-grey metal panels and spaceship parts, and yellow with red accents in the artwork. Across the centre sits a large silver arched instruction panel: two red rocket illustrations flanking a diagram of seven differently coloured planets labelled ANTHILLES, TRES DANTANA, DANTANA and URUS HELLA, under the words KNOW YOUR FOE! Below that are four rectangular target boxes with insect illustrations and coloured borders: WARRIOR on yellow, HOPPER on green, PLASMA on blue, TANKER on red, each with a grey window, over the line SHOOT TARGETS TO KILL BUGS AND CLEAN PLANET! and an orange BALL SAYER oval. Two long silver ramps sweep down the lower field, lettered ON A TIME MACHINE!! on the left and INTO INFINITY on the right. The lower playfield shows a huge red-orange starburst with three green-uniformed space marines standing on a brown asteroid, flanked by two large painted helmeted soldier heads. Numerous bumpers shaped like glowing cylindrical barrels in blue, yellow, red and green cluster in the upper field, with NUKES lettering on two side plastics, PLANET banners at the top, and a lane of three round lit inserts lower down.

A painted science-fiction backglass dominated by a colossal black-and-orange insectoid war machine striding across a ruined desert plain. The creature has a long segmented stinger tail arcing over its back, a glowing orange maw, and a huge armoured carapace; its spindly legs crush a grey concrete causeway running from the foreground into the distance. On the right, a line of about six human soldiers in black fatigues and dark helmets advance leftwards, firing rifles that throw bright yellow-orange muzzle flashes, one man bare-headed with a bare forearm braced on his weapon. Behind them looms a giant grey-brown alien head with a ridged, brain-like cranium and heavy brow, and a dark winged pterodactyl-like flyer spreads its wings at the upper right. Upper left, a flock of about eight small purple-black winged insect creatures swarms over tan mesa cliffs; at lower left a soldier in blue-grey armour fires upward with a flame at his rifle muzzle. The palette is burnt orange, black, dusty tan and steel blue. The title sits lower right in huge italic chrome-blue block capitals with white highlights on a black swoosh.

A sci-fi horror battle scene painted in a realistic, airbrushed comic-book style. A squad of five or six black-uniformed, helmeted commandos in black body armour and webbing advance from the centre-right across pale grey-white rubble, rifles raised and one firing a weapon whose muzzle throws a bright orange-yellow muzzle flash. They confront two colossal skeletal insectoid aliens: a dominant one on the left with a gaping red-and-cream toothed maw, a chitinous brown-and-ochre plated head, four spindly limbs and a long segmented tail curling up behind it, and a second huge grey-brown skull-like alien head looming at the top right. Black star-shaped fighter craft streak across the teal sky at upper left. The bottom right carries a big italicised logo: an oversized blue-grey capital S and T with white highlights, the words STARSHIP and TROOPERS in white block italics on dark navy bars, set over rippling blue-purple water or cloud. Dominant colours: teal-green sky, bone white, black, brown-ochre, with orange muzzle flash and blue-white lettering.