You tuck eyeball and orange ball into your increasingly bulging pockets and climb back out of the pit to examine the strange operator's display.

The rectangles appear to be some kind of readout, registering the level of -- something -- from ATTRACT to DISTRACT. The MANUAL OVERRIDE sign seems to label the clear plastic tube on the left of this display. The tube runs horizontal, left to right, and looks about the right size to hold a row of the ball pit balls.