2005 · Stern
The Sopranos
Known for Safe, Boat ramp, Spinner lane and RIP top lanes. Dim interior room, brown wall panels, doorway at right and table with drinking glasses at bottom.
- Year
- 2005
- Maker
- Stern
- Type
- Solid state
- Display
- Dot matrix
- Players
- 4
Known for
- safe
Safe
- Ramp
Boat ramp
- Lane
Spinner lane
- Lane
RIP top lanes
- Ramp
Meadowlands
- Lane
FISH lanes
- Goal
Rank
- Multiball
Stugots Multiball
On the playfield
Ramps 2
- Boat ramp
- Meadowlands
Holes 2
- Safe safe
- Fish mystery saucer
Bumper 1
- Shakedown
Drop target 1
- Boat drop target
Target 1
- Sopranos targets
Lanes 3
- Spinner lane
- RIP top lanes
- FISH lanes
Lights 2
- Envelopes inserts
- Underboss insert insert
Backbox 1
- Bodies backglass toy
On the backglass
Who and what
- man Older, grey-haired, cream shirt with bolo tie, top left, frowning at viewer
- man Light-coloured suit, seen from behind, turned away, top left-centre
- woman Strapless champagne satin dress, dark upswept hair, top centre, looking down at viewer
- man Elderly, white hair, dark-rimmed glasses, grey suit and tie, top right of centre
- man Blond, dark suit, leaning forward, top right
- woman Curly dark hair, patterned blouse, middle left, chin tilted up
Setting
- Dim interior room
- Brown wall panels
- Doorway at right
- Table with drinking glasses at bottom
Text on it
- HBO
- series
- THE
- Sopranos
How it plays
-
Modes 8
- Party at the Bing
- Arson
- Exterminate
- Horse Race
- Satisfaction
- Truck Heist
- Food Fight
Video modes
- Executive Game
-
Multiballs 3
- Stugots Multiball
- Bing Multiball
- Underboss Multiball
-
Goals 5
- Rank
- Episodes
- Tribute
- Quickie Bonus
- Bing Value
-
Awards 1
- Add A Ball
-
Wizard modes 1
- Boss
Made by
- Design
- George Gomez
- Art
- Kevin O'Connor
- Software
- Dwight Sullivan
- Software
- Lyman F. Sheats Jr.
- Software
- Lonnie D. Ropp
- Display animation
- Mark Galvez
The cast
- The Bing
Reference
Linked terms
- Safe also called Safe mechanism
- Boat ramp also called Stugots also called Yacht lock
- Boat drop target also called Stugots blocker
- Spinner lane also called Inner loop
- FISH lanes also called Fish
- Fish mystery also called Fish market
- Rank also called Advance Rank also called Associate also called Soldier also called Good Earner also called Acting Capo also called Capo
- Stugots Multiball also called Boat Multiball
- Underboss Multiball also called Underboss
- Boss also called Boss wizard mode
- Food Fight also called Food
- Tribute also called Tribute to Underboss
Playfield vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Playfield
- red
- black
- cream
- gold
Fingerprint: The Sopranos: Wall of framed mugshot headshots covering backboard and playfield like police photos, enormous red-and-white flippers, black apron with red dripping letters, tall red banner with yellow lettering, stepped ladder of rank labels, mafia-drama red-black-gold palette
A wall of tiny framed mugshot-style headshots of suited men covering the entire upper backboard and scattered across the lower playfield as if they were police identification photos. Two enormous red-and-white flippers and a black apron reading THE SOPRANOS in dripping red letterforms. A tall vertical red banner with stacked yellow lettering hanging in the top centre, flanked by a silver aeroplane toy and a grey translucent arched plastic building. Yellow and red chamfered lane labels reading Boss and Under Boss stacked in the middle of the playfield like a gang hierarchy chart.
Setting
- Back wall of a suburban new jersey house rendered as a lit photographic set
- Interior rooms glimpsed through open doorways in the upper playfield
- A grid of framed police-style portrait photographs covering the upper backboard
- A parking lot / garage scene with an aeroplane and a car at top right
- Dark vignetted wood floor across the lower playfield
Symbols
- Playing-card suit shapes (spade, club, heart, diamond) used as lane labels
- Gold dollar-sign coin icons on the yellow value card
- Red dice
- Handgun / pistol illustrations
- Gold gangster-era pistol targets
- A gold cash register
- A gold money bag
- A compact fluorescent tube and padlock graphic (safe-cracking motif)
- Arrowheads and striped chevrons
- A gold chain and medallion
- Star decals
- A red flag and a yellow taxi sign
Notable shapes
- Tall vertical red banner at top centre with stacked lettering
- Full-width grid of framed portrait photographs on the backboard
- Long chrome orbit rail hugging the left sidewall
- Triangular arrow-shaped label inserts pointing up the middle of the playfield
- A wide cut-out arch over the upper playfield entrance
Art motifs
- Gang rank ladder (associate ranks to under boss) printed as a physical ladder of playfield labels
- Mugshot photo collage
- Chase and escape imagery with speeding cars and police
- Exploding car fireball under the upper playfield
- Checkerboard racing flag band along the lower apron
- Yellow-and-black hazard chevrons framing the lower deck
- Brick wall texture on the right ramp
- Red neon glow lighting
Themes
- Mafia
- Crime drama television series
- New jersey
- Mob hierarchy
- Police mugshots
- Suburban house
- Aeroplane
- Vintage cars
Title on it
- The sopranos
Text on it
- THE SOPRANOS
- Sopranos
- Boss
- Under Boss
- WEAPONS CACHE
- HIBIKI
- Active Capo
- Good Career
- Soldier
- Associate Ranks
- Shoot Again
- SAFETY
- SAFE
- R.I.P.
- PREPODY
- HOLD EITHER FLIPPER FOR INSTANT INFO
- 50¢=1 x1
- SUPER VALUE
- $2.00=1 x5
- CHASE
- KILLS
- WEAPONS
- BAD BOYS
- GR8 BALL
- OFFICIAL RULES
- BALL SAVE
- EXTRA BALL
- QUOTES
- COLLECT
- HOLDOUT
- CAGE MATCH
- HUDSON
- BACON
- BOSS
- UNDERBOSS
- HEAD
- CORRADO
- Start
- CLEAR
- PLEASE WAIT
- COMMENT
- 50-60-25
- TILT
- CHANGE TO BONUS AND FREE GAMES
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Dozens of small framed headshots of middle-aged men in dark suits, white shirts and ties, some with sunglasses, some with beards, arranged in a grid across the upper backboard and in separate frames on the lower playfield |
| Man | Large illustrated man in a dark suit and dark glasses on the left side art, facing right |
| Man | Bald man in a suit photographed in a mugshot-style frame near the bottom centre-left |
| Man | Man with grey hair and glasses in a mugshot frame at the lower right of centre |
| Woman | Single small photographic portrait of a dark-haired woman in the headshot grid |
| Vehicle | Silver single-propeller aeroplane mounted on a post in the upper right playfield |
| Vehicle | Chrome station-wagon car body on the left orbit lane, a red two-door car painted on the right ramp wireform |
Full-length portrait view of a modern solid-state playfield dominated by a Mafia-TV-drama colour scheme of blood red, black, cream and gold. The upper third is a raised upper playfield with wireform rails, a silver aeroplane toy on a post, a translucent grey plastic structure with a peaked arch (a garage door / car-hate motif), and a wall of small rectangular headshot photos of men in suits arranged in a grid against a wall. A tall red banner hangs vertically at top centre with yellow and white lettering. Down the middle runs a stepped ladder of red-outlined labels reading Boss, Under Boss, WEAPONS CACHE, HIBIKI, Active Capo, Good Career, Soldier, Associate Ranks, Shoot Again, with SAKE, R.I.P., PREPODY and SAFE labels on the flanks. The lower playfield carries framed mugshot-style portraits of individual men in suits and sunglasses, a small television set illustration, a hooded figure, and two large red-and-white flippers below. The apron is black with a red THE SOPRANOS logo, flanked by a yellow rules card on the left and a yellow 50c / SUPER VALUE $2.00 card on the right, both lit, plus red HOLD EITHER FLIPPER FOR INSTANT INFO panels with arrows pointing outwards.
Backglass vision analysis
Written by a machine from the photos, so details may be off.
Backglass
- red
- black
- beige
- pink
Fingerprint: The Sopranos as photographic ensemble cast portrait, thirteen people shoulder-to-shoulder under one ceiling light, blood-red title serif wordmark, balding man with cigar, blonde in hot-pink jumper, dark brown walls and bar table
The eye is caught first by the enormous blood-red serif title wordmark filling the lower right, with a small white-on-red network tag in the top left corner. The cast of around thirteen real people is pressed into an impossibly tight, shoulder-to-shoulder group portrait under one hot ceiling light, all staring at the viewer with hard, suspicious expressions. Foreground anchors are a blonde woman in a hot-pink jumper at bottom left and a balding man in a dark suit holding a smouldering cigar up beside his face at bottom right. Glasses of liquor and an ashtray clutter the pale table along the bottom edge.
Setting
- Dim interior room
- Brown wall panels
- Doorway at right
- Table with drinking glasses at bottom
Symbols
- Cigar
- Cut-glass tumblers
- Beer glass
- Ashtray
- Ceiling light glare
Lettering
- Large lower-case-leaning bold red serif letterforms with dark outline, small red 'the' above; red boxed 'hbo' logo top left with small red 'series' beneath
Themes
- Ensemble cast portrait
- Mafia drama television adaptation
- Bar-room group shot
- Photographic collage
Title on it
- The sopranos
Text on it
- HBO
- series
- THE
- Sopranos
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Man | Older, grey-haired, cream shirt with bolo tie, top left, frowning at viewer |
| Man | Light-coloured suit, seen from behind, turned away, top left-centre |
| Woman | Strapless champagne satin dress, dark upswept hair, top centre, looking down at viewer |
| Man | Elderly, white hair, dark-rimmed glasses, grey suit and tie, top right of centre |
| Man | Blond, dark suit, leaning forward, top right |
| Woman | Curly dark hair, patterned blouse, middle left, chin tilted up |
| Woman | Dark hair, side profile, grey top, middle left-centre |
| Man | Dark hair, black leather jacket, seated centre, staring forward |
| Man | Dark swept hair, pale shirt and tie, centre, arms on table |
| Man | Dark hair and stubble, brown/grey jacket, middle left, head lowered |
| Man | Balding, dark suit, patterned tie, bottom right centre, holding a lit cigar |
| Woman | Blonde, vivid pink jumper, bottom left foreground, looking up sideways |
| Woman | Short brown hair, wire-rimmed glasses, dark coat, right side |
Photographic collage backglass showing a crowded ensemble of about thirteen people in dim, warm interior lighting, packed shoulder-to-shoulder across the whole frame with no scenery beyond dark brown walls, a doorway at right and a blown-out white ceiling light top-centre. Dominant hues are blood red (in the title and the top-left logo), black and dark brown (background and most clothing), pale beige and cream (shirts, walls, table), and pink (the front-left woman's jumper). Top row: a grey-haired older man in a cream shirt with a bolo tie; a man in a light suit seen from behind; a woman in a strapless champagne-gold satin dress with an upswept dark hairdo; an elderly man with white hair, dark-rimmed glasses and a grey suit; a blond man in a dark suit leaning in. Middle rows include a curly-haired woman in a patterned blouse, a dark-haired woman in profile, a man in a black leather jacket, a dark-haired man in a white shirt and tie, a man in a brown suit, and a man with wire-rimmed glasses at right. Foreground: a blonde woman in a vivid pink jumper at bottom left, and a balding man in a dark suit and patterned tie at bottom right holding a lit cigar and a drink glass. Across a pale tabletop sit cut-glass tumblers, a beer glass and an ashtray. The title is a large red serif wordmark at the bottom.