Game Plan (company)
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Game Plan was a pinball
manufacturer that produced pinball tables from 1978 to 1985. 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.
The company initially produced cocktail-style pinball tables and produced five different models in their first year of existence. 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.
Game Plan table designer John Trudeau, went on to design The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot (1991) and The Flintstones
(1994) at Williams. Ed Cebula later worked as a table designer and mechanical engineer at Data East 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...
manufacturer that produced pinball tables from 1978 to 1985. Game Plan was a subsidiary of AES Technology Systems and was located in Elk Grove Village
Elk Grove Village, Illinois
Elk Grove Village is a municipality located in northeastern Illinois adjacent to O'Hare International Airport and the City of Chicago. Elk Grove Village encompasses in land area with located in Cook County and located in DuPage County, Illinois. The population was 32,745 at the 2010 census...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
. Game Plan's president was former Chicago Coin
Chicago Coin
Chicago Coin was one of the early major manufacturers of pinball tables. Chicago Coin, founded in 1931, would make pingames and modern pinball machines for over 45 years before being sold to the Stern family in 1977 and becoming Stern Electronics, Inc....
table designer Wendell McAdams.
The company initially produced cocktail-style pinball tables and produced five different models in their first year of existence. 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.
Game Plan table designer John Trudeau, went on to design The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot (1991) and The Flintstones
The Flintstones (pinball)
There are two pinball games based on The Flintstones, one from the TV series made by Innovative Concepts in Entertainment , and a Williams machine based on the movie.-Williams machine:...
(1994) at Williams. Ed Cebula later worked as a table designer and mechanical engineer at Data East Pinball
Data East
also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game developer and publisher. The company was in operation from 1976 to 2003, when it declared bankruptcy...
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Pinball tables (full-sized)
- Agents 777 (1984)
- Andromeda (1985)
- Attila the Hun (1984)
- Captain Hook (1985)
- Cyclopes (1985)
- Old Coney Island! (1979)
- Pinball Lizard (1980)
- Sharpshooter (1979)
- Sharp Shooter II (1983)
- Super Nova (1980)