Game Plan (company) explained

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]}

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

• Real (1978, cocktail)
• Black Velvet (1978, cocktail)
• Camel Lights (1978, cocktail)
• Foxy Lady (1978, cocktail)
• Chuck-A-Luck (1978, cocktail)
• Family Fun (1978, cocktail)
• Star Trip (1979, cocktail)
• Sharpshooter (1979, Game Plan's first full-sized pin)
• Vegas (1979, cocktail)
• Old Coney Island (1979)
• Super Nova (1980)
• Pinball Lizard (1980)
• Global Warfare (1981, widebody; only 10 units produced)
• Mike Bossy the Scoring Machine (1982, never produced)
• Sharpshooter II (1983)
• Attila the Hun (1984)
• Agents 777 (1984)
• Captain Hook (1985)
• Lady Sharpshooter (1985, cocktail)
• Andromeda (1985)
• Cyclopes (1985)
• Loch Ness Monster (1985, only one prototype produced)

External links

• Game Plan Pinball.com website - History
• Internet Pinball Database - Game Plan

Notes and References

1. Book: Rossignoli, Marco . The Complete Pinball Book: Collecting the Game and Its History . 2011 . Schiffer Publishing, Limited . 81, 257 . 9780764337857 .
2. Web site: Game Plan Pinball History . Gameplanpinball.com . 2010-08-09.
3. http://www.tokensonly.com/images/resources/documents/pdfs/pinballexpo1985.pdf Pinball Expo 1985
4. Web site: The Internet Pinball Machine Database . Ipdb.org . 1980-04-01 . 2010-08-09.
5. Web site: The Internet Pinball Machine Database . Ipdb.org . 1980-04-01 . 2010-08-09.
6. Web site: gameplanpinball.com . 2010-08-09.
7. Web site: john trudeau list of games at arcade-history . Arcade-history.com . 2010-08-09.
8. Web site: ed cebula list of games at arcade-history . Arcade-history.com . 2010-08-09.