The Games

Illuminated playfield seen from above through the glass, hot red and magenta dominant with orange, gold, teal and green lamps. The artwork is a crowded athletics-stadium collage in airbrushed comic-book style: a crimson running track with white lane lines fills the lower half, a torch and packed grandstand sit top left, and a small green-clad athlete plus a grinning bearded man's portrait appear mid-field. Four round mushroom pop-bumper caps sit in a wide diamond, two curved chrome ball guides rise at top right, and five red drop targets stand across the upper centre under a SPECIAL WHEN LIT AGAIN banner. Two angled banks of coloured targets flank mid-field, and a vertical row of starburst inserts reading 1,000 to 5,000 runs down the right. Orange text reads HOLD BONUS ACTIVATED WHEN MEDALS ARE FLASHING above three gold SHOT PUT, POLE VAULT and JAVELIN targets. The apron carries a black HOW TO PLAY THE GAMES card, a cream-and-red Gottlieb logo and replay instructions. Two cream flippers, red-and-gold slings, a large red star medallion and a bowler-hat metal scoop finish the bottom.

Flat rectangular backglass in a red/maroon cabinet, art in flat screen-print style. Across the top, huge italic block letters in bright red with black drop shadow read THE GAMES. Below sits a large downward-pointing triangle built from concentric rainbow bands (outer blue, then orange, yellow, green), framing one central male athlete: a dark-haired runner lunging to the right, in a white sleeveless vest and yellow shorts, blue running shoes, arms pumping, rendered in heavy black outline with blue shadow. Behind him is an orange-red circle. Four identical gold/yellow silhouette athletes decorate the background: one upper-left with a javelin, one upper-right throwing a javelin, one mid-left and one mid-right each running with a flaming torch. Two vertical columns of three national flags each flank the triangle: Germany, Switzerland, Greece on the left; France, United Kingdom, Italy on the right. Lower down sit two flag pairs (Mexico, Sweden on the left; Belgium, Netherlands on the right) and a bottom row of five flags: Australia, Japan, United States, Canada, Netherlands. Four green seven-digit LED score displays in black bezels, a small centre panel showing 88 and 80 in cyan/white, gold diagonal stripes crossing the lower corners, and a small oval logo near the top of the triangle.

A square backglass in a gold-brown wooden frame, its art dominated by a hot red-to-orange gradient field. Across the top runs a banner of chunky italic block capitals reading THE GAMES, letters filled with a red-to-yellow gradient and outlined in dark blue with a pale drop shadow; the words are flanked left and right by small glowing orange silhouette figures of running and jumping athletes. The centre holds one large painted male athlete: a lean, tanned, bare-armed man in a white sleeveless vest and short white shorts, dark curly hair, head thrown back in exertion, right arm swung down gripping a dark baton or club, left arm flung out, left knee raised and right leg trailing, so he appears to be leaping forward off the page. A green-edged inverted triangle sits behind him. Around him are scattered rectangular national-flag motifs: a Union Jack, a red-and-white horizontal bar, a blue cross on white, a black-and-white chequered flag, vertical black-yellow-red stripes, blue-white-red vertical stripes, a white flag with a red disc, a green-white-red tricolour, and a blue-and-yellow cross. Along the bottom edge sits a horizontal row of small flag rectangles: green-white-red, blue-white-red, and further red-and-yellow stripes. Red diagonal speed lines streak the lower right. Six small black rectangular windows hold glowing alphanumeric readouts in cyan-green and orange.