Skill Score

Skill Score, manufactured by Exhibit Supply Company (trade name ESCO) of Chicago in July 1936, is an early electro-mechanical (EM) pinball machine from a manufacturer that operated for decades, from 1932 to 1957. As a single-player game, it reflects the mechanical amusement devices common in the mid-1930s.

Little specific documentation survives about Skill Score's gameplay, rules, or scoring objectives. As an EM machine of this period, it would have used relays, switches, and electromagnets to track scoring, predating the invention of the flipper by more than a decade.

Details about Skill Score's artwork and theme are similarly scarce, consistent with the utilitarian design common to many games of this experimental early period of pinball. It remains a representative example of Exhibit Supply Company's early output.