Game Plan (company)

Game Plan was an amusement game manufacturer that produced pinball machines, arcade video games, and slot machines from 1978 to 1985.[1] Game Plan was a subsidiary of AES Technology Systems and was initially located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, moving in early 1979 to Addison, Illinois.[2] Game Plan was founded in May of 1977 by two principals of AES, Lee Goldboss and Mike Abrams, and their partner, former Chicago Coin engineer and designer Wendell McAdams.[3][4][5]

Game Plan initially produced cocktail-style pinball tables and produced five different models in their first year of existence.[6][1] Three of these are based on licensed names, Real (cigarettes), Camel Lights, and Black Velvet.[7] The company began producing full-size models with 1979's Sharpshooter, featuring a "Wild West" theme. Sharpshooter, incidentally, was Game Plan's best-selling game, having produced 4,200 units in all.[8] 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 The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot (1991) and The Flintstones (1994).[9][10] Ed Cebula later worked as a playfield designer and mechanical engineer at Data East Pinball.[11]

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)

References

  1. 1 2 Rossignoli, Marco (2011). The Complete Pinball Book: Collecting the Game and Its History. Schiffer Publishing, Limited. pp. 81, 257. ISBN 9780764337857.
  2. ↑ ""Game Plan Moves To Addison, IL."" (PDF). Cash Box Magazine. 40 (38): 57. February 3, 1979.
  3. ↑ "Game Plan Pinball History". Gameplanpinball.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  4. ↑ Pinball Expo 1985
  5. ↑ "Game Plan comes back with pins". Play Meter Magazine. 11 (22): 8. December 1, 1985.
  6. ↑ "The Internet Pinball Machine Database". Ipdb.org. 1980-04-01. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  7. ↑ "The Game Plan History in Brief". Pinball Magazine. No. 1. 2016. p. 109. ISBN 978-90-816266-0-6.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  8. ↑ "The Internet Pinball Machine Database". Ipdb.org. 1980-04-01. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  9. ↑ "gameplanpinball.com". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  10. ↑ "john trudeau list of games at arcade-history". Arcade-history.com. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
  11. ↑ "ed cebula list of games at arcade-history". Arcade-history.com. Retrieved 2010-08-09.


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