Game Plan (company)

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.[1][2]

The company initially produced cocktail-style pinball tables and produced five different models in their first year of existence.[3] 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.[4]

Game Plan table designer John Trudeau, went on to design The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot (1991) and The Flintstones (1994) at Williams.[5][6] Ed Cebula later worked as a table designer and mechanical engineer at Data East Pinball.[7]

Pinball tables (full-sized)

References

  1. ^ "Game Plan Pinball History". Gameplanpinball.com. http://www.gameplanpinball.com/history.shtml. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
  2. ^ Pinball Expo 1985
  3. ^ "The Internet Pinball Machine Database". Ipdb.org. 1980-04-01. http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?searchtype=advanced&mfgid=126. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
  4. ^ "The Internet Pinball Machine Database". Ipdb.org. 1980-04-01. http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?searchtype=advanced&mfgid=126#2113. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
  5. ^ "gameplanpinball.com". http://www.gameplanpinball.com/history.shtml. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
  6. ^ "john trudeau list of games at arcade-history". Arcade-history.com. http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=person&name=John+Trudeau. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 
  7. ^ "ed cebula list of games at arcade-history". Arcade-history.com. http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=person&name=Ed+Cebula. Retrieved 2010-08-09. 

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