Keith Elwin

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Keith Elwin is an American pinball designer, best known for designing Jurassic Park and Godzilla for Stern Pinball. Born in Carlsbad, California, Elwin was a professional pinball player prior to joining Stern Pinball as a designer and was ranked as one of the top pinball players in the world. [1]

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Professional pinball player

Elwin began attending pinball tournaments in 1993 and was formerly ranked the number 1 pinball player. [2] Elwin holds the record of 11 major pinball championships. [3] and the record for most top 4 finishes in major championships with 19. [4]

Pinball designer

In 2015, Elwin designed and built a homebrew pinball machine based on Archer . [5]

In 2017, Elwin joined Stern Pinball as a game designer. [6] Elwin’s game designs are consistently ranked as some of the top pinball games of all time based on the Pinside Top 100.

Games

Elwin was the lead designer on the following Stern Pinball games:

Awards and honors

See also

References

  1. Frye, Andy. "Competitive Pinball Is A Thing. Just Ask The World's Best Players".
  2. "CARLSBAD: No. 1-ranked pinball player enjoys his time in 'the zone'". June 24, 2012.
  3. "Keith Elwin wins 11th Major Championship! - Keith Elwin wins 11th Major Championship!".
  4. "Major Championship Records".
  5. "Archer Pinball Machine (Elwin, 2015) - Image gallery | Pinside Game Archive". pinside.com.
  6. "Keith Elwin announces he will be working for Stern Pinball!". January 9, 2017.
  7. "Keith Elwin: Avengers Infinity Quest Pinball | AUSRETROGAMER". ausretrogamer.com. September 28, 2020.
  8. Strampe, Louryn. "Stern Pinball's Brand-New King Kong Game Is Totally Bananas" via www.wired.com.
  9. "Pinball News - First and Free". www.pinballnews.com.
  10. Harding, Matt (April 11, 2023). "Keith Elwin in U.K. Pinball Hall of Fame – RePlay Magazine".