Flight 2000, Stern, 1980. Space ships zoom between planets while something planetoid explodes to the left. Same general hard sci vibe as the space ships on Mars Attack, but without the scary floating head.
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon, Bally, 1980.
If you’ve seen the show, you’ll recognize the myriad characters on the backglass. I think I saw it once or twice as a kid, so from my standpoint it’s a bunch of people on a mostly red background with some space ships.
Fireball Classic (Solid State)
Fireball Classic, Bally, 1985. This is a remake of the 1975 EM version.
A supervillain, or possibly demon, or perhaps superhero, throws fireballs at the player. He stands in a wind-up in front of a yellow cloud while standing on yellow fire.
Excalibur
Excalibur, another goddamned Gottleib, 1988. It’s no wonder I’m playing like shit tonight.
A giant man emerges from the ground (the waist up, anyway) wearing armor and swinging a big sword around while his cape
Other warriors smaller than the palm of his hand battle around him. A castle stands on a hill in the background.
Embryon
Embryon, Bally, 1980.
There is some wild shit going on here.
First, the background: we are in a hallway of metal walls and grates like something off the set of Alien.
Dead center is a big circular metal tunnel with two human brains in semicircular containers clamped to the outside.
On the left, organic spheres about the size of basketballs are pouring out of something conveyor-like.
On the right, a sphere that comes to about waist height has a decidedly humanoid shape growing in it.
In the center, a man in a tight metallic blue shirt, red suspenders, with pilot goggles perched on his forehead stands behind a sphere that comes to his waist. His right hand rests on it.
A semi-feminine (or possibly starving) humanoid with red skin, a green drape, sits some kind of yellow goo inside the sphere. This, we presume, is the embryon.
This is some kind of fucked up, y’all.