Game Plan (company)

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Game Plan was a pinball manufacturer that produced pinball tables from 1978 to 1985. [1] Game Plan was a subsidiary of AES Technology Systems and was located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Game Plan's president was former Chicago Coin table designer Wendell McAdams. [2] [3]

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The company initially produced cocktail-style pinball tables and produced five different models in their first year of existence. [4] [1] The company began producing full-size tables with 1979's Sharpshooter, a "Wild West" themed table. Sharpshooter, incidentally, was Game Plan's best-selling table, having produced 4,200 units in all. [5] From 1980 through 1982, Game Plan also released a small number of video games, most all of them licensed from other manufacturers, beginning with Tora Tora in 1980. Other games include: Killer Comet, Intruder, Megatack, Kaos, and Pot Of Gold.

Former Game Plan designer John Trudeau went on to design many other pinball games at Gottlieb/Premier and later Williams, including titles such as The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot (1991) and The Flintstones (1994). [6] [7] Ed Cebula later worked as a table designer and mechanical engineer at Data East Pinball. [8]

Pinball tables (full-sized and cocktail)

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References

  1. 1 2 Rossignoli, Marco (2011). The Complete Pinball Book: Collecting the Game and Its History. Schiffer Publishing, Limited. pp. 81, 257. ISBN   9780764337857.
  2. ↑ "Game Plan Pinball History". Gameplanpinball.com. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  3. ↑ Pinball Expo 1985
  4. ↑ "The Internet Pinball Machine Database". Ipdb.org. 1980-04-01. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  5. ↑ "The Internet Pinball Machine Database". Ipdb.org. 1980-04-01. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  6. ↑ "gameplanpinball.com" . Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  7. ↑ "john trudeau list of games at arcade-history". Arcade-history.com. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  8. ↑ "ed cebula list of games at arcade-history". Arcade-history.com. Retrieved 2010-08-09.


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