Sci-Fi-O-Rama

A Disco-esque Sci-fi flyer produced for the 1980 Bally Midway Pinball Machine “Xenon”.  See The Internet Pinball Database for more info and a full gallery of this machine in all it’s glitzy glory.

Artwork Sourced from The Internet Pinball Database, excellent resource for Data mining absolutely anything related to all things Pinball. http://www.ipdb.org/

Atari’s Vertical Scrolling Arcade Shooter “Xevious” from 1981.

Wedge shaped spacecraft flying in and out of frame, a limited colour palette, and heavy black outline, a really good example of early 80’s arcade cabinet art. In retrospect these cabinets are much more exciting than the games themselves especially when measured by todays standards. Xevious was a vertical scrolling shooter, as opposed to the horizontal - not sure which is better as I’ve always been shit at both.

More Pinball Artwork, this time from 1985, Artwork by Pam Erickson for Williams.

A friend of mine used to have this Pinball Table, and it was pretty damn cool when it actually worked - which wasn’t that often. Anyway I reckon having a Pinball table is up there with the best of any bachelor crap…

Now this is the shit, a Sexy Star-Fighter Pilot and 80’s Arcade graphics, again its the detailing that makes this Battle-of-the-Planets type image so great - love that sinister fox motif on the helmet.

The top image is a flyer advertising the arcade machine and the lower underneath graphic is the marquee - thats the bit at the top of the cabinet. This image has come form klov.com (Killer List of Videogames) again another excellent resource run by proper fans keeping the memory of all this art alive.

Anway Solar Fox was made in 1981 by Bally Midway (US manufacturer) read more about it here.

This punchy comic style image with a disco flavour is the front of a flyer promoting the 1980 Pinball Game “Galaxy” made by Stern. I came across this whilst looking through http://www.ipdb.org which is the number one resource for information about pretty much anything you want to know about any Pinball table ever made - some really cool stuff on there. Pinball graphics are often like this, pretty kitsch, exciting and in right in your face.

Anyway to see more of the Galaxy pinball machine check this link personally I don’t think there would be anything much cooler than doing the graphics for a pinball machine… I’ll be posting more Pinball stuff up soon.