The Simpsons Pinball Party

Full-cabinet view of a brightly lit cartoon pinball playfield themed on a yellow-skinned nuclear family of five from a Springfield town. The centre of the lower playfield is dominated by a huge jagged yellow lightning-bolt outlined in red, spreading upward over a blue sky with white clouds. Below the flippers, three card panels sit in the apron: a dark blue rules card, a central title card reading 'The Simpsons PINBALL PARTY' in fat purple-and-pink bubble letters on a confetti-speckled blue background, and a right-hand card showing the family posing together. On the lower playfield a bald, heavy, yellow-skinned man in a pale blue short-sleeved shirt and blue trousers lies spread-eagled on his back in a red car, one hand raised, a doughnut in the other hand. To either side of him stand a woman with towering blue beehive hair in a strapless green dress, and a long-haired man in an open blue shirt showing his chest. Two large pink-frosted doughnuts with sprinkles sit in blue triangular panels reading 'HOLD NUMBER FOR INSTANT INFO'. Up top, a chattering yellow teeth jaw figure, a giant grey-headed yellow character, a white-haired clown doll in a purple shirt and green shorts, and a boy in a red shirt flank a brown square video screen and a yellow instruction card. Dominant colours are yellow, blue, red and purple.

Full-length portrait shot of a modern pinball machine, angled from above so the entire sloped playfield plus the front of the cabinet and coin door are visible. The playfield background is a flat cartoon cityscape: blue sky, pale clouds, rows of simple blocky buildings, green trees and pavement, drawn in flat cel-style colours. Filling nearly the whole field is a chaotic scatter of comic-strip artwork — dozens of small white rectangular panels tilted at every angle, each containing a single printed word in bold capitals on a coloured bar, plus yellow star bursts and speech balloons. Near the top right sits a large three-dimensional figure of a bald, yellow-skinned man with huge round white eyes and a bulbous nose, in a brown shirt, holding a printed card sign; below him a yellow arrow sign and printed beer-mug graphics. In the middle-lower area a pale blue-grey woman with long orange hair and a gold crown sits with arms outstretched in front of a purple star shape. Two large red-and-yellow lightning-bolt ramps run diagonally down the left and right lanes, and two plain light-blue cylindrical posts stand on the left. The bottom apron carries three big printed cards. Dominant colours are blue, yellow, red and purple.

A wide, landscape-format cartoon backglass packed with a cheering crowd of yellow-skinned animated characters in the foreground, backed by a nuclear power plant under an orange-red sunset sky. A slanted white placard across the upper left carries the red script logo 'The Simpsons', and the title 'PINBALL PARTY' runs across the middle in huge crimson bubble letters with a white and dark-blue outline. Behind the crowd stand two grey-blue hyperboloid cooling towers with white steam plumes, red lightning bolts, mushroom-shaped clouds, flying saucers, and dark hills. A small roadside-style sign reads 'NUCLEAR CONDITIONS' over 'RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!'. In the foreground a spiky-haired boy in a red vest shouts, a tall thin blue-haired woman in a green strapless dress points one finger up, a brown-haired man in a white shirt grins and waves, a bald man with round glasses plays a golden saxophone, a small girl with a blue bow and red dress stands below, and a boy in a white lab coat clutches his head. Many more faces crowd the left and right edges. Small shop signs read 'KWIK-E-MART' and 'MOE'S'. The style is flat, bold-outlined cel animation with saturated yellows, crimsons, teals and greys.

A wide rectangular backglass with a white, cloud-edged marquee at upper left tilted slightly, carrying a curved red hand-lettered logo with black outline reading 'the Simpsons', with a small 'TM' at its right. To its right, in very large pink-and-white bubble block letters with heavy black drop shadow and a black keyline, is 'PINBALL PARTY'. Behind the lettering, an orange-to-purple dusk sky with a green radioactive cloud plume pouring from a pair of grey cooling towers whose funnels are drawn as nuclear mushroom-cloud heads, one bearing an atom symbol. A curved white elevated railway track sweeps in from the top left with a red-and-yellow train on it; three blue saucer shapes with light beams rise at the right. Below, a dense crowd of yellow-skinned cartoon figures fills the lower two thirds: a tall man in a white shirt with a raised fist at right, a tall blue-haired woman in a pale green dress with a red bead necklace holding a brass saxophone, a spiky-haired boy in an orange-red shirt, a small girl in a light blue dress, a bald man in a white shirt, and numerous background characters including a grinning toothy man, a woman in a purple top, a balding man, and a bearded man at far right. The palette is dominated by yellow, pink, purple and orange.