Ed Krynski was a pinball

Pinball

Pinball is a type of arcade game, usually coin-operated, where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more metal balls on a playfield inside a glass-covered case called a pinball machine. The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible...

 designer who worked for D. Gottlieb & Co

Gottlieb

Gottlieb was an arcade game corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. The company was established by David Gottlieb in 1927, initially producing pinball machines while later expanding into various other games including pitch-and-bats, bowling games, and eventually video arcade games .Like other...

 between the years of 1965 and 1987. During his time there, Krynski (who was recently inducted into the Pinball Hall of Fame

Pinball Hall of Fame

The Pinball Hall of Fame opened in Las Vegas, Nevada in January 2006. It is a project of the Las Vegas Pinball Collectors Club, and it features pinball machines from all eras, including some very rare machines such as Williams' Black Gold, Bally's Pinball Circus and Recreativos Franco's Impacto...

) designed more than 200 games and brought to life such innovations as the vari-target, laneways to the flipper, carousel target, as well as the multiple drop targets.

The first pinball machine he designed was "Dodge City", released in July 1965, and the last was "Amazon Hunt", in September 1983.

The Internet Pinball Machine Database identifies 225 machines as designed by Krynski, including "300", 2001

2001 (pinball)

2001 is a pinball machine produced by Gottlieb. Ed Krynski, the designer, stated that the idea of the target bank found on 2001 was to try to make as many drop targets as possible to do the work on one solenoid. Cost savings was its inspiration. The game appealed to players because the rules were...

, 4 Square

4 Square (pinball)

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, El Dorado, Spirit of '76, Royal Flush and Sing Along.

Sources

• The Pinball Compendium by Michael Shalhoub ISBN 0-7643-2300-8