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Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 1991 pinball machine designed by Steve Ritchie A self-made pinball game in Niger. Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en route or when it comes to rest. Historically the board was studded with ...
Eugene Peyton Jarvis is an American game designer and video game programmer, known for producing pinball machines for Williams Electronics and video games for Atari.Most notable among his works are the seminal arcade video games Defender and Robotron: 2084 in the early 1980s, and the Cruis'n series of racing games for Nintendo in the 1990s.
Steve Francis Kordek (December 26, 1911 – February 19, 2012) was an American businessman of Polish descent who was best known for the design of the pinball machines. Kordek is credited with designing over 100 pinball machines. The last game Kordek helped design was 2003's Vacation America. [1]
Edward Paul Krynski (September 12, 1927 – November 15, 2004) was a pinball game designer and innovator who worked for D. Gottlieb & Co between 1965 and 1984. During this time Krynski designed more than 200 games and innovated new pinball standards such as the laneways to the flipper, carousel targets, vari-targets, multiple drop targets, and the first solid state pinball machine with the ...
Pinball: Bell Games February 1983 [749] Pinball Champ: Zaccaria: April 1983 [750] Pinball Champ '82: Zaccaria: April 1982 [751] Pinball Lizard: GamePlan: June 1980 [752] Pinball Magic: Capcom Coin-Op: October 1995 [753] Pinball Pool: Gottlieb: June 1979 [754] Pin-Bot: Williams: October 1986 [755] Pink Panther: Gottlieb: March 1981 [756] Pioneer ...
Over 50,000 machines were made, jump-starting the arcade pinball field; it spawned a home version in 1932 called Baffle Ball Senior. [2] Baffle Ball was responsible for the launch of the company Gottlieb that went on to make pinball machines such as Ace High and Black Hole.
Today, Gottlieb's pinball machines (along with those distributed under the Mylstar and Premier names), as well as the "Gottlieb" and "D. Gottlieb & Co." trademarks (USPTO registration nos. 1403592, 2292766, and 3288024, and other numbers in countries around the world), are owned by Gottlieb Development LLC of Pelham Manor, New York. Most of ...
Humpty Dumpty is a pinball machine released by Gottlieb on October 25, 1947. [2] Named after Humpty Dumpty, the nursery rhyme character, it is the first pinball machine to include flippers — invented by Harry Mabs [3] — distinguishing it from earlier bagatelle game machines. [1] [4]