The Red Max

A 1960s-era electro-mechanical playfield photographed in its cabinet, with a desert-and-aviator theme painted in hot orange and golden yellow. The field is roughly kite-shaped, wide at the rounded top and tapering to the two flippers and a central drain at the bottom. Four pop bumpers cluster across the upper third; each has a cream skirted cap ringed with green or yellow wedge segments and printed '100 WHEN LIT' or 'SUPER BONUS WHEN LIT', and a fifth bumper sits high on the left lane. A red angled drop-target bank crosses the middle, its white target faces printed with individual black capital letters, and behind it runs a wide black-topped ramp printed 'UP POST'. Blue cloud-shaped spot panels on the right read '100 SPOTS 5 LETTERS', '2 SPOTS NEXT LETTER 100' and '3 SPOTS NEXT LETTER 100', beside a red panel reading '500 COLLECT BONUS'. Painted artwork shows a huge pale-grey twin-boom propeller aircraft banking across the centre over orange desert mesas, with a small red-clad pilot figure and green cacti; matching tan rock spires at lower left and right are captioned 'COLLECT BONUS' and '500'. The apron is bright yellow-green with a white instruction card listing replay scores, a '5 BALLS 5c' card, and a red-and-white 'TILT ENDS GAME' box.

A painted, cartoon-style backglass on a pale olive-yellow field, framed by a black metal edge, showing a chaotic dogfight scene. The title THE RED MAX X runs diagonally across the right half in huge red letters with white striped highlights and heavy black drop shadow, with THE tucked above RED and the X oversized at the right edge. In the centre is a large black oval aperture shape containing a small square plate and a red cursive manufacturer signature. Around it: a green-uniformed pilot with a peaked cap, moustache and open shouting mouth, arms flung up as he falls; a second figure in a yellow helmet and green goggles grimacing at lower left; a grinning blond pilot in a yellow-collared uniform bursting out of a green picture frame near the bottom centre, hands splayed. Two yellow biplanes fly at the upper right, one with a bald goggled pilot reaching up. A blue-and-yellow monoplane dives at centre right trailing black smoke, a red-and-blue monoplane sits at bottom right, a small green plane at centre left, and a red rocket with a glass nose falls at lower centre. A large red cape or explosion billows across the top, a purple-gloved hand reaches down at upper left, and a small yellow bird-like figure flies below it. GAME OVER in red capitals with a white 00 window sits at the top left; BALL IN PLAY appears in black at the lower left; a mechanical five-window reel display reading 0 8 3 4 0 sits at lower right amid black smoke.