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Stranger Things Pro (brought to you by Netflix!) Stern, 2019.
More boring branded art – main character telepath front and center. (Haven’t seen the show so it’s all a mystery to me.)
This one does have a fairly large video screen on it so at least it’s a bit interesting during play.
Star Trek (Pro), Stern, 2013. Heavily branded from the newer Star Trek original series movies. It’s meant to look gritty and dark and I’m not a fan, but I’ll take it over some of the more boobalicious backglasses that come out over the years. Uhura on the left, Kirk in the middle, Spock on the right, and two people I can’t quite make out at the bottom, possibly the bad guy and McCoy.
(Every time we try to watch the movie something bad happens so I’ve stopped trying.)
Anyway, a typical Hollywood backglass which means it’s boring as shit.
Star Trek, Bally, 1978.
Y’all there are so many Star Trek pinball machines.
In this one, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, and probably Chekov (in the background) are dressed in blue jumpsuits that, if they really were tight enough to show off every muscle group, would probably be cutting off everyone’s circulation.
Kirk has multiple rib lines / muffin tops across his right side.
Spock looks furious.
They are all running around on a yellow landscape with a yellow sky, so considering the year they could be in LA’s smog.
A planet and the ship both loom in the sky to the upper right, which I think indicates everything is about to be torn up by gravity… which does align with the pinball playing experience.
Lethal Weapon 3, Data East, 1992. Licensed from the movie, the backglass is a bunch of illustrated scenes. I’d tell you more but I haven’t seen the movie so “guy and other guy stand together looking menacing, and then do so again, and this time one has a gun drawn” probably doesn’t cut it.
Jurassic Park (Premium), Stern, 2019.
Velociraptors (which I still swear were Utahraptors) wander around a lush jungle outside the cracked-open gate to Jurassic Park. The Jurassic Park logo takes up most of the bottom right corner.