Hi-Skor

The Hi-Skor, produced by the Hi-Skor Amusement Company of Henderson, North Carolina, was manufactured in May 1932 as a Pure Mechanical (PM) table-top/counter game -- a small unit meant to sit on a counter rather than a full-size floor cabinet. It stands among the earliest coin-operated pinball-style games in American amusement history.

As a counter game from the very beginning of the coin-op pinball era, the Hi-Skor would have relied entirely on mechanical operation, with no electrical components. Specific details of its playfield layout, scoring mechanism, and gameplay have not been documented, so any description of its exact mechanics would be speculation.

The Hi-Skor's significance lies primarily in its age and its status as a product of one of the many small regional amusement manufacturers active in the early 1930s. Little else is known about its designer, its production run, or how many examples survive today.