parental advisory, explicit...cabinet art? (har)
Hal Lowe
The Scramble machine I'd bought hadn't even been 'fired up' yet
before a friend of mine, giving the machine the once-over, noticed
something I hadn't...on the monitor glass, there was what might
be 'misconstrued' as something rather sexually explicit.
The art features a woman, holding what we assumed to be an
alien microphone, she's singing into it....'cept, well, the
mike has a head on it. I won't elaborate beyond that, but
we were both sort of suprised by the artwork. Yeah, it's alien
and all that, but still....all in how you look at it, I guess.
If you have the machine, and haven't noticed this, take a look
it's in the lower right, just above the 1/2 player start/fire
buttons (the ones on the right side), you might see what
I'm referring to (or is this old news/an old topic in here?).
So, I'm wondering, are there other machines out there that have
what might be seen as risque artwork? Or is Scramble about
as 'saucy' as it gets? (Arcade sideart/marquee/glass, nothing
outside of the arcade realm.)
a drop in a sea of oblivion,
Hal Lowe
Glenwood, AR
So many machines, so few working monitors....
Duncan Brown
>
>The Scramble machine I'd bought hadn't even been 'fired up' yet
>before a friend of mine, giving the machine the once-over, noticed
>something I hadn't...on the monitor glass, there was what might
>be 'misconstrued' as something rather sexually explicit.
>The art features a woman, holding what we assumed to be an
>alien microphone, she's singing into it....'cept, well, the
>mike has a head on it. I won't elaborate beyond that, but
>we were both sort of suprised by the artwork. Yeah, it's alien
>and all that, but still....all in how you look at it, I guess.
Hiding phallic references in game artwork is about as old as game
artwork itself. Yes, Scramble is one of the most obvious of its era,
but then again you never heard a big hue and cry about it so I guess
the artist pulled that trick pretty well! Iron Maiden ( a Stern pin)
has very similar imagery on its upper playfield: lady with a, um,
"microphone" or something.
For an example from an older, simpler time, see the backglass from the
pinball Magic City or its add-a-ball cousin Magic Town. you can find
a picture here:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/pinball/IPD/image.cgi?id=1514&if=backglass.jpg
Tell me the shape of that fountain was accidental.
Duncan, who will now doubtless be accused of just seeing phalluses in
everything he looks at...
andy r
shouldnt be where they are, or other little bits). In the code there are
all kinds of bizzare stuff, like I remember someone saying that there was a
way to make the girl fight while naked in MK II etc.. but I assume that the
artwork was far more scrutinized and that very few things got by. But I am
sure there are some ingenuitous things here or there...
Andy