Couple months back I was given a mildew pile shaped like a pinball machine. After a few gallons of disinfectant, Mold Control (R), and elbow grease in 3 days' worth of perfect sunshine and heat, it actually seemed worth salvaging. It was ROUGH and is still far from perfect BUT my goal was to make it into a nice player for starters. And it now plays! So there's hope. Worst visual is now the backglass (it was already cracked and wedged solid with barely any remains of the lift bar!) but I'm afraid a replacement will open the chasm of "well now it's time for a new ___ to match" so time will tell.
ANYWAY. In the process of cleaning the drop targets the OEM bullseye patterns mostly came off. Fine by me because IMO that was a lazy design for a game about *trucking*, so I now had a reason to do something better. Same thing with the score reels: already yellowed, grungy, and missing parts of their numerals, I never liked the boring font Bally used (WMS and GTB are far superior IMO). And on an EM Night Rider, the reels practically BEG to look more like an odometer - what better way to claim KING OF THE ROAD than hammering 100,000 miles delivering the goods?
So I created the overlays below. The reels for players 3 & 4 use a font with more squared-off numerals more like a typical odometer's to me; compare to Bally OEM on P1 & P2. The targets now feature typical truck loads and a little Red vs. Blue thrown in for good measure. Hit the target to deliver the load (note the Bandit's bounty next to more precious cargo in the middle)... I kinda wish I'd labeled the barrel for hazardous waste tho, ha.
Anyway, just thought I'd share... if there's interest here I can see about making some available for purchase.
And yes, I realize that dummy "zero" is still the original Bally one - it doesn't match but sorta looks like the oddball "tenths" reel on an odometer that way, so I'm keeping it