1980 · Bell Coin Matic
The Hunter
Deep blue starry night sky with a yellow crescent moon across the top band, black band carrying red score windows and player-number circles, jungle river with a foaming white waterfall and grey mountains, green tropical foliage and vines behind the figures and bottom strip of jungle at night with a hut, trees, an animal hide and an orange-red burst.
- Year
- 1980
- Maker
- Bell Coin Matic
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Alphanumeric
- Players
- 4
Vision analysis
On the backglass
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- blue
- red
- green
- yellow
Fingerprint: the hunter, enormous head of stubbly man in red headband and blue shirt stares straight out with heavy black comic-book inking dwarfs everything, flanking bandolier-wearing rifleman kneeling left and wide-eyed blonde woman on right, white waterfall splits jungle scene behind, four black circular up badges sit in black band beneath title, numerals 1 2 3 4 in jagged yellow starbursts base, jungle war comic aesthetic
The centrepiece is an enormous, tightly cropped head of a stubbly man in a red headband and blue shirt, rendered with heavy black comic-book inking, staring directly out and dwarfing everything else. Flanking him are a bandolier-wearing rifleman kneeling at the left and a wide-eyed blonde woman at the right, with a white waterfall splitting the jungle behind them. Four black circular '1 up' to '4 up' badges set into the black band beneath the title are unusual and memorable. The bottom left corner has the numerals 1 2 3 4 printed inside jagged yellow starbursts.
Setting
- Deep blue starry night sky with a yellow crescent moon across the top band
- Black band carrying red score windows and player-number circles
- Jungle river with a foaming white waterfall and grey mountains
- Green tropical foliage and vines behind the figures
- Bottom strip of jungle at night with a hut, trees, an animal hide and an orange-red burst
Symbols
- Yellow crescent moon
- Small white stars
- Black circles with red 'up' numerals
- Red rectangular score windows
- Bandolier of bullets
- Rifle
- Yellow starbursts around the numerals 1 2 3 4
- Tropical leaves and palm fronds
- Orange-red burst at bottom right
- Brown animal hide or pelt in the bottom centre
Lettering
- 'the' in small chunky yellow slab-serif capitals; 'hunter' in very large red slab-serif capitals with a white keyline and thick black outline, arced slightly across the starry sky. player labels as red numerals with white cursive 'up' on black circular badges.
Themes
- Jungle warfare
- River and waterfall
- Night sky
- Commando raid
- Adventure comic
Title on it
- The hunter
Text on it
- THE
- HUNTER
- 1 up
- 2 up
- 3 up
- 4 up
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Huge central head-and-shoulders portrait, black hair, red headband across the forehead, heavy stubble and beard, blue open-collared shirt, unsmiling stare straight at the viewer, heavy black ink outlines |
| Man | Left side, kneeling, full dark beard, red-and-black striped headband, olive-green shirt, blue trousers, bandolier of bullets across the chest, both hands on a rifle held diagonally |
| Man | Right background, wide-brimmed dark hat, olive clothing, one arm raised with an open hand beside the white waterfall |
| Woman | Right side, blonde bobbed hair, pink top, thin necklace, wide eyes and open mouth, head tilted up-left toward the armed men |
A painted, comic-book-style jungle war backglass. The top third is a deep blue night sky scattered with small white stars and a yellow crescent moon; across it sits the title, the small word 'THE' in chunky yellow block letters and 'HUNTER' in very large red slab-serif capitals with a white keyline and a heavy black outline. Beneath, a black band carries two blank red rectangular score windows, one at each end, and four black circular badges reading '1 up', '2 up', '3 up' and '4 up' in red and white. The centre panel is a jungle river scene: a huge head-and-shoulders portrait of a stubbly man with black hair, a red headband and a blue shirt stares straight out; at the left a bearded man kneels in an olive shirt, blue trousers and a red-and-black striped headband, a bandolier of bullets across his chest, gripping a rifle; at the right a blonde woman in a pink top and thin necklace looks up with her mouth open, and behind her a figure in a wide-brimmed hat raises a hand beside a foaming white waterfall. The bottom strip is a green jungle night scene with a hut, tropical leaves, a brown animal hide, an orange-red burst and the numerals 1 2 3 4 in jagged yellow starbursts. Flat saturated colours, heavy black inking, strongly 1970s in feel.