Supersonic

A full electro-mechanical playfield photographed in its cabinet, with a large chromed wire ramp and a curved metal ball guide arcing across the entire top edge. The lower two-thirds is a deep red, royal blue, yellow and orange geometric field dominated by a huge five-pointed star outlined in white and black, with a giant block letter T at its centre and an S-shaped chain of nine white round pop-bumpers/lights winding up the middle. A curved gold-and-orange SONIC BOOM logo sits just above the star, flanked by white starburst rosettes and the words LIT BUTTONS and ADVANCE LETTER. Two triangular wedge cutouts at lower left and lower right each contain a small painted cartoon scene of a red-haired figure seated at a control panel; the left wedge is labelled SPECIAL with 1000 at its foot, the right shows a 300 value. Two white flipper bats sit at the bottom centre above a blue apron panel carrying a large cursive script logo and two white rules cards. Yellow triangular cards read INSTRUCTIONS on the left and SUPER SONIC on the right, the latter listing replay scores. Upper playfield holds three mushroom-capped pop bumpers with silver sunburst skirts marked 100, a row of seven white drop-target or bumper caps, and small printed yellow arrow panels reading 3000 WHEN HIT and SPECIAL WHEN LIT.

Illustrated backglass dominated by a huge orange-and-yellow spiral galaxy disc set against a deep blue-to-magenta starfield scattered with multicoloured dots and paint splashes. A stylised chrome-and-red spaceship, saucer-hulled with a domed ringed collar, flies in from the left across the lower half, its twin cylindrical engine nacelles tipped red and white, with a small nameplate on the hull reading BALLY 2001. The galaxy spirals around a bright white flare at centre with a small ringed orange planet above right of centre. Two rectangular score windows sit across the upper third, each in a black frame with six white reels showing red 0 digits, topped by cylindrical blue and green caps labelled 1UP and 2UP with coloured bands and small insert cards. Down the left and lower-left runs a grey rocky cliff or ruined structure with cross-hatched shading. The title STAR SHIP sweeps across the lower half in large red-to-white block capitals with a white drop shadow. Along the bottom, turquoise ground carries black-outlined text 1 OR 2 CAN PLAY, BALL IN PLAY and a yellow TILT, plus two small round yellow and black medallions. No human figures appear.

A rectangular backglass set in a cream-yellow wooden frame, photographed at a slight angle with a dark room behind it and a reflection on the right-hand glass. The art is an airbrushed 1970s aviation scene in deep red, orange, cream and blue. Across the top a big arced block-letter title SUPERSONIC in an orange-to-yellow gradient with heavy black outline, flanked at upper left by a yellow cursive script word reading Bally. A golden sunburst radiates from the centre behind a white single-seat jet seen head-on, nose down, high above the horizon. A large white and blue delta-winged supersonic airliner with a needle nose climbs diagonally from lower left to upper right, trailing four white contrail ribbons, with a red-white-blue tail marking. Beneath it a maroon lattice tower of the Eiffel-Tower type stands at the right, and a small dark pylon sits at lower left amid gold cloud puffs. Four black rectangular windows with red digits read 491850 each, paired with big red player numbers 1 UP, 2 UP, 3 UP and 4 UP down the left and right edges. A yellow sun low on the horizon sits at bottom centre with concentric red and gold cloud swirls filling the lower half.

Square backglass with the title FLY HIGH across the very top: FLY in yellow block capitals with red outlining and the L drawn as a rocket, HIGH in yellow capitals with a red-outlined G whose crossbar sweeps into a rocket exhaust. A thin white pinstripe border runs just inside the black edge, framing a star-speckled deep-blue space scene. Upper centre is the head and shoulders of a pale-skinned woman with wide blue eyes, full red lips and long auburn hair, wearing a gold winged emblem diadem on her forehead. To the left, a large bearded man with long windblown hair, an open shouting mouth and a gold hoop earring, rendered in mottled blue. To the right, a huge blue-and-white furry monster head with a blood-red mouth, bared yellow fangs and a clawed paw raised at the edge. Below centre a small figure in a red top rides a white winged moth- or bird-like creature. At the foot, a slender rocket spire rises inside a pale blue glowing ringed planet. Four red-outlined rectangular score windows sit two per side, each with a red player numeral. A yellow lozenge bottom-left reads 1 TO 4 CAN PLAY, and a pinside.com watermark sits bottom-right.