Strange Science

A photographed electro-mechanical style playfield seen through a smoked plexiglass, tinted magenta-red by interior lighting. The layout is symmetric about a central vertical spine. At the top left a painted grinning scientist with wild swept-back grey hair and a white lab coat holds a smoking flask; beside him a magenta-lit transparent tower box labelled ATOM SMASHER. The upper right holds three round targets set in a dark-red panel under a strip of small print, with a red LED score readout showing 25000 and other amber 7-segment digits to the left. Mid-playfield a large translucent blue dome/lens sits over the centre, flanked on the right by a black arc of round lamp inserts with white letters. Down both left and right sides run pale blue plastic ramps with chrome wire guides, orange-red posts and yellow starburst plastics. Two clowns with painted white faces, red noses and ruffled collars stand left and right of the lower-middle area, flanking a mechanical assembly with two silver posts. The lower left carries a large paper card printed with bold STRANGE SCIENCE over blueprint line-work, with a cartoon atom-emitting figure. Lower right has a yellow rubber tyre prize and a red mushroom button. A blue apron strip runs along the bottom edge beneath two flippers. The wooden cabinet side rails and black lock bar are visible.

Rectangular backglass painted in a flat comic-book style, dominated by a black night sky cracked with bright blue-white lightning bolts. Across the upper half sit two stacked title lines: STRANGE in rounded white-to-pale-blue bubble letters with a dark blue outline, and beneath it SCIENCE in huge block capitals with a white-to-pale-yellow vertical gradient, a fat orange and gold bevelled 3D edge and a red drop shadow. Two chrome ball-tipped posts rise behind the lettering, one at each end. The lower half is a hot red field holding three figures: a colossal clenched fist in a black glove with two yellow stripes, thrust straight down at the viewer and gripping a metal two-post clamp, with a small white plate edged in red reading HIGH VOLTAGE beneath it; on the left a roaring orange-furred ape head with a dark brown mane and bared yellow teeth; on the right a pale man with enormous spiky black-and-white punk hair, thin wire spectacles and a shouting open mouth, his hand raised wearing a fat rivet-studded silver ring. Dark navy panels with riveted edges and empty rectangular recesses run along the bottom.