PinScore  PS-8000-P Display Review

I ‘met’ Brett Davis on line on RGP and entered a discussion that eventually morphed into us discussing our kids and our autistic sons specifically.  Through our discussions, I had mentioned to him I had a Gorgar machine coming up for repair and one of the problems with it was the display.

To make a long story short, Brett asked me if I’d be interested in doing some testing for his new PinScore Display kit for Williams System 3-6 games (The PS-8000-P).  He also asked me what kinds of writing I had done in the past and I informed him that I occasionally write articles for RePlay magazine.  I also have a technical background in Aviation Maintenance and I used to make a living reading technical manuals and writing reports with regard to the work accomplished on aircraft.

I am in no way affiliated with PinScore and my only ‘bias’ (or perhaps ‘payment’) is that Brett gave me a working Display kit to keep and evaluate.  I’m really just a random guy.  If I didn’t like the displays, I’d probably send it back to Brett and decline to do a review.

The above disclaimer being said, I met Brett in person at Pinball Expo 2007 in Chicago this past October and took possession of the PS-8000-P Display kit.  Production was just completed and Brett had 3 kits to be given to various folks for testing purposes.

That’s not to say that’s all he and Marco Specialties had at Expo.  My first impression of coming up to the Marco booth (even before meeting Brett) was that PinScore had some really nice displays.  Featured were mock-ups of the displays in actual backglasses plus a working Williams JOKERZ! Machine.  I happened to be just gazing at the JOKERZ! and not really seeing anything that stood out at me.  My friend Chris, who was standing next to me, said something like: “Wow look, those aren’t the original displays!”

This moment of realization was, for me, the main thing that stands out about the PinScore displays.  They look like they are supposed to.  They are a direct replacement for the original displays and unless you really know what to look for, you’d never notice the difference between two games standing side by side!

Case in point, as I photographed the Firepower used in this article, I had a hard time figuring out which was the before pic and the after pic.  If the digital photos weren’t numbered, I’d have had a difficult time getting it right!