Was going crazy trying to identify the game in one of the images on the NYC Pinball Championships 2018 announcement web site. Could not find it on IPDB, finally resorted to Tin Eye and discovered it's not a real game, but a work of art by photorealist artist Charles Bell who specialized in amusement-type imagery. Wow, anyone know more (will order his book soon)?

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Looking forward to seeing his work. The book covers most of it apparently, and the Wikipedia article on him makes it sound like he did a series of pins, possibly near the end of his career (he passed away in 1995).

Will report back when I know more...

Received the book yesterday, pretty nice, many nifty images, and has a decent amount of history/bio. Bell was doing mostly toys, dolls and gumball machines when he did his first pinball in 1976. He decided, like many of us, that pinball was his ultimate subject matter, and did a number of pinball-based oil paintings into the 90s. "Miami Beach" (pictured in my original post) is considered his masterpiece, and it's mostly an invented game but draws from existing machines. He would find a game with cool machinery, but unsatisfying art, and vice-versa, and in this case draw from what he liked but also invent what he considered ideal imagery. However, he also did close-up highlight "snapshots" of scenes/sections from existing games, some pictured in the book, particularly "Fireball", "Paragon", and "Oh Boy" -- an artist's eye for other good artists' work! The paintings all seem to be in private collections, but I would love to see a gallery show of Bell's oeuvre.