word mining central
Once again the universe tries to convince me being a witch is the way to go. Seawitch by Stern, 1980.
Two women in skimpy bikinis made of way too much gold ride barracuda-like sea monsters. One carries a bow and the other a pike. A giant human skull cave is in the top right. An assortment of mermaids and skulls adorn the left.
Raven Sniper Squadron, a goddamned Gottleib, 1986.
A helicopter flies over some kind of depot or army base that is supposed to look reminiscent of Korea or Vietnam. The helicopter is firing rockets at the buildings.
Quicksilver, Stern, 1980.
Ah yes, here we go back to the “was the artist on coke?” era.
A woman with an extremely extended (squid-like) cranium, dressed in an orange jumpsuit that matches her orange skin tone, runs through a very large pile of animated-looking green blobs. Some basketball-sized pinballs appear to be caught in the blobs. The blobs appear to be trying to capture the woman.
Behind them all, the game title displays in illustration-style neon lighting.
The drugs must have been really good back then.
Night Moves, International, 1989. This damn thing is a cocktail table pin and is designed to play sitting down but is uncomfortable no matter how you try to play it. It’s a back-killer. And it has no backglass.
A little Art Deco? But with zebra stripes? And TBH this is the first time I’ve really looked at the illustrations because I’m usually worried about hitting the lit things.
Monster Bash, Stern. The original Williams make was from 1998 but they decided to make more of them in 2018. The concept (conceit? Plot?) behind the game is that you activate each of the monsters and then they play musical instruments in a “monster bash”.
So we’ve got Frankenstein as the DJ, Bride of Frankenstein singing, Mummy on base guitar, Werewold on drums, Creature (presumably from the black lagoon) on saxophone and Dracula on guitar. Very loose drawing style. I like it.