Your Favorite Pinball Designer?

Your Favorite Pinball Designer?

  • Brian Eddy - (Medieval Madness, Attack From Mars, The Shadow)

    Votes: 1 2.5%
  • Steve Richie - (High Speed, T2, Star Trek NG, AC/DC, Black Knight 2000)

    Votes: 9 22.5%
  • Pat Lawlor - (Funhouse, Twilight Zone, The Addams Family, Whirlwind)

    Votes: 22 55.0%
  • George Gomez - (Monster Bash, Lord of the Rings, Johnny Mnemonic)

    Votes: 4 10.0%
  • John Popadiuk - (Cirqus Voltaire, Arabian Nights, Theatre of Magic)

    Votes: 2 5.0%
  • Dennis Nordman - (White Water, Scared Stiff, Elvira, Dr. Dude)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 2 5.0%

  • Total voters
    40

ND3G

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Feb 25, 2012
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Who is your favorite pinball designer?

My apologies if I left off your favorite designer.

At the very least I should have added Dennis Nordman - (White Water, Scared Stiff, Elvira, Dr. Dude)
 
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bavelb

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Apr 16, 2012
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Voted JP. But Mark Ritchie (Taxi, Diner, Indiana Jones, Sorcerer, Fish Tales) deserves an honourable mention.
 
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Jeff Strong

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Feb 19, 2012
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Who is your favorite pinball designer?

My apologies if I left off your favorite designer.

At the very least I should have added Dennis Nordman - (White Water, Scared Stiff, Elvira, Dr. Dude)

Added him for you. :)
 

Mike

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Feb 24, 2012
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Too hard to choose. I guess I don't really have a favorite. I would say a tie between Popadiuk and Lawlor. As everyone else said, these are all pretty amazing characters.
 

Brian Clark

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Feb 28, 2012
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Too hard to choose, though I wish Ted Zale (Fireball, Four Million BC), John Trudeau (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Judge Dredd, Silver Slugger, The Machine Bride of Pinbot), Barry Oursler (Pinbot, Bad Cats, Space Shuttle, Cyclone), and Ed Krynski (Royal Flush, Big Brave, Bank Shot), and Wayne Neyens (Queen of Hearts, Square Head, Slick Chick, Sittin' Pretty) were on here too. I think Steve Kordek (Space Mission, Triple Action, Triple Strike) should be on the list too, but I haven't played any of the actual machines of the games he designed.
 
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Rudy Yagov

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Mar 30, 2012
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This is actually kind of tough. I'd say that Lawlor is the "best" as far as making a vast number of good games, but Steve Ritchie is responsible for a much greater number of my favorites.

Also, I'd add Barry Oursler, Mark Ritchie, and John Trudeau.
 

Shaneus

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Mar 26, 2012
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Steve Ritchie all the way. Eddy is great but... not *quite* as good as Ritchie IMO. Lawlor is unreal as well, but leans too much toward a stop-start style of play (IMO!) with ever-so-slightly busy playfields.

So many great designers, but when it comes down to it, if you picked a random table from any of those listed, there's a better chance i'd enjoy one of Ritchie's more.
 

Richard B

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Apr 7, 2012
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As much as I like Medieval Madness and Attack From Mars, I had to go with Ritchie, because he has the depth. In addition to those already mentioned, he also designed the original Black Knight, Firepower, F-14 Tomcat, Rollergames, the Getaway, Indiana Jones (Williams), and No Fear, as well as several recent Stern tables.
 

FurVid

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Feb 20, 2012
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Definitely Ritchie - the others made some great tables, but Steve was responsible for almost every important innovation. Shame none of his tables are released yet, or in the next DLC batch, but I guess this is an "Arcade", not a "Hall of Fame". I usually consider Lawlor second based on the large number of awesome tables he did, but I'm knocking him down a notch since after a session of RBION I'm just sick of that style of skill shot where you have to launch the ball really lightly across the center of the table and hope it doesn't go down a side drain if you miss (I know on Ripley's it at least gives it back, but it didn't on WPHOF Whirlwind and No Good Gophers). So Popadiuk is second.
 

Rudy Yagov

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As much as I like Medieval Madness and Attack From Mars, I had to go with Ritchie, because he has the depth. In addition to those already mentioned, he also designed the original Black Knight, Firepower, F-14 Tomcat, Rollergames, the Getaway, Indiana Jones (Williams), and No Fear, as well as several recent Stern tables.

Indy was his brother, Mark Ritchie. He also did Taxi, Diner, Fish Tales, Sorcerer, Big Guns, and a handful of other Williams games, as well as Kingpin for Capcom.
 

Daniel Osborne

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Feb 28, 2012
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I voted jpop. Love totan and tom, only two flippers too, so i prefer not to have to concentrate too much on the upper play area during multiball! Need more tables quickly!
 

BStarfire

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Jan 9, 2013
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Rudy Yagov did mention him above, but the recent release of Space Shuttle reminded me of the great Barry Oursler.... the aforementioned Space Shuttle, Space Station, Gorgar, Comet, Cyclone, Pinbot, Bram Stoker's Dracula that all come top of mind, and he has plenty of others.
 

Kolchak357

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May 31, 2012
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Almost a coin flip between Ritchie and Lawlor for me. I voted for Lawlor because of my TAF addiction that I have struggled with for years.
 

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