Universe

Tall electro-mechanical playfield on a pale cream/ivory cabinet, photographed at a slight angle with the wood side rails visible left and right and metal ball-guides and lane guides catching the light. The painted field is a starry mid-blue sky with clouds and a rainbow arc across the top. Across the top arc is a red rocket ship with a white plume and the curved lettering ADVANCE above a fan of ten yellow-glowing standing targets with bulb inserts. Two round blue discs at the arc's ends carry yellow grimacing clown faces in bubble helmets. Below sit two large round bumpers, one red-ringed reading 10 WHEN LIT, one blue reading 10 WHEN LIT, flanked by two small painted men in bowler hats and capes. In the centre a white-suited astronaut stands on a pink-and-white cloud, arms out. Rectangular 100 POINTS panels, SPECIAL and four ADVANCE lamps, and yellow 10 POINTS WHEN LIT panels are scattered across the lower half. The bottom apron shows a cartoon black horse pulling a chariot with a charioteer, the words Balls Played over a black ball-track slot, big red script Flipper, a red arrow reading BUTTONS ON SIDE OF CABINET, and a cream instruction card headed UNIVERSE. Dominant colours: mid-blue, cream/ivory, red, yellow.

Illuminated rectangular backglass, art style airbrushed 1970s space-promo illustration. Top left: a cream-and-pink starburst explosion containing GOTTLIEB'S in small pink block capitals above UNIVERSE in huge slanted rounded letters alternating orange, magenta, yellow and cream, each with a thick white 3-D drop shadow. Top centre: an orange sun disc with wavy red, orange, yellow and pink rays. Top right: a small red-and-white maker's label, and below it a gold TRIPS panel with red-outlined capitals, two purple discs reading 10 and 20, and a lattice of orange diamonds holding numbered roundels. A white rounded-rectangle score window with concentric rainbow border rings holds four reels showing blank, 8, 5, 6. The centre is dominated by a green-and-yellow globe of the Americas inside a glowing pale-yellow halo, with two yellow rockets with orange nose cones flying past, a smiling cartoon sun face in a yellow disc, and white orbit lines on deep blue. Left: a pin-up woman in a stars-and-stripes bikini and tiny crown peers through a brass telescope while standing on a yellow rocket with round portholes showing two grinning male faces. Right: a red-haired woman in a magenta two-piece lies propped on one elbow, pointing upwards. Bottom: black script slogan on a white glow.

Illuminated rectangular backglass inside a plain wood-toned frame, painted in flat bold comic style. Top left: a jagged yellow-and-cream starburst carrying GOTTLIEB'S in small pink caps above a huge arched word UNIVERSE in chunky cream block letters shaded orange-to-magenta with a 3D drop shadow, on red spikes. Top centre: a sun with long wavy orange, yellow and red rays on a dark teal star field. Centre top: a horizontal cream oval window outlined by three concentric maroon and orange ovals, holding number windows reading 5, 3, 5. Top right: a cream signboard reading A PRODUCT OF D. Gottlieb and Co. MFG. CHICAGO 34 ILL. in red script and caps, above a large red TRIPS on a cream arrow panel, then a vertical maroon lozenge lattice of numbered roundels 10, 20, 9, 7, 8, 6, 4, 5, 1, 2 with one 3 lit pink. Lower half: a green and yellow globe of the Americas inside a thick yellow halo, ringed by two paper rockets and a purple and yellow flying saucer. Left: a bare-chested cartoon man in a star-spangled cap and blue trunks lying on his back in a yellow rocket, sighting a brass telescope. Right: a red-haired woman in a red two-piece reclining on cream ground, pointing upward, beside a small square 1 window. Bottom centre: Amusement Pinballs, An American as Baseball and Hot Dogs.

Square illustrated backglass on a cream/off-white ground, framed by a dark wooden cabinet edge. Top left carries a red starburst panel reading GOTTLIEB'S UNIVERSE, with UNIVERSE in huge red block capitals outlined white, tilted and stacked so the letters step down to the right, inside a jagged white-and-yellow lightning-bolt border. A large horizontal rounded-oval score window sits top centre, rimmed in concentric red, orange, yellow and black bands, containing three visible mechanical digit reels showing 8, 6 and 5 with blank drums either side. Top right is a small slanted red-and-white maker's banner over a yellow panel headed TRIPS in large red-outlined capitals, above a descending stack of red diamonds each holding a white numeral. Artwork: a teal-blue starfield wedge fills the right half, with a huge red sun at the top edge throwing wavy yellow and red rays; left of centre a bare-chested cartoon man in red polka-dot briefs and a blue spotted cap kneels astride a white, red and yellow rocket, one arm raised, rocket nose bearing a large red letter. Below centre a big pale-yellow-rimmed circular window shows a globe of teal ocean with pink, yellow and green continents of Africa, Asia and Australia. Bottom right a red-haired cartoon woman in a red two-piece swimsuit with white trim and green bangles reclines propped on one elbow on a small white cloud, one hand raised in a wave. Rockets, a satellite, a spinning red atomic sphere with orbit lines, a smiling yellow crescent moon and a two-colour space ship streak across the blue wedge.