BY DESIGNER tpa... ! :)

[WhiteChocolate]

TPA 15111400
DESIGNED BY list!

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something i had looked around forums for recently, but couldn't easily find, was a one-up "designed by" list of tables... for those "by writer/by artist/by director" types, a quick crib list for those wanting to focus a weekend's playtime by a specific table designer (like, what if this weekend, i wanted to play all of TPA's lawlor tables? or ritchie's(-es, plural ritchie! shoot till i did this, i didn't know there were two of 'em!) and see how they progressed their designs/ideas over time, and worked with collaborators??)

testing the forum search engine, it does seem to follow basic google rules - if you type in "designed by" including quotes, you do get some threads back, but i didn't find any that was exactly what i was searching for... i'm sure there's maybe a similar page out there on some other pinsite... but why not one right here, and one focused on what's already in TPA, mostly? couldn't find one already pinned, so i thought i'd try to make one up real quick this afternoon, referring off of the iOS app table history info...

offering this up as "pinnable," if it floats everyone's boat! welcoming feedback and corrections for my mistakes (i surely have a lot of 'em, but third time around will be a charm)... i'm ready and willing to keep this list updated as time goes by!) (although i fully welcome forum mods to bust in and take it over if i were to fall off the map - or if other corporate/lawyer interests abide...)

i'd also (eventually) like to add more notable tables for each name/designer not yet available in TPA; i would maybe prefix those lines as NTP (or rather NPA?)...

you all can just help me out via comments below whenever!

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TPA (and more) TABLES AS
DESIGNED BY / BY DESIGNER:

ARTIST
YEAR - ORIGINAL/potentially+CUSTOM PRODUCTION TOTAL - TITLE - MANUFACTURER - ROLE

any unknown/unfilled fields from 'table info' are indicated as simply '????'. please feel free to send any feedback to fill in unknown fields! or any unknown designer/content artists/musicians/software engineers/etc etc.

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PYTHON ANGHELO:
1986 - 12,001 - Pin*Bot - Williams (co-design)
1988 - 9,400 - Cyclone - Williams (art)
1988 - 7,300 - Taxi - Williams (co-design)
1991 - 8,100 - Bride of Pin*Bot - Williams (design)

JOE BALCER:
1997 - 1,500 - Starship Troopers - Stern (co-design)

JOHN BORG:
1995 - 3,000 - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Williams? (design)
1999 - 750 - Harley Davidson Third Edition - Stern (co-design)

JOHN BURAS:
1981 - 8,774 - Black Hole - Gottlieb (co-design)

ED CEBULA:
1990 - 2,750 - Phantom of the Opera - Data East (co-design)

SUZANNE CIANI:
1979 - 11,000 - Xenon - Bally (music)

MATT CORIALE:
1998 - 903 - Cactus Canyon - Bally (design / co-designer?)

LARRY DEMAR:
1980 - 13.075 - Black Knight - Williams (software)
1984 - 7,000 - Space Shuttle - Williams (software)
1986 - 17,080 - High Speed - Williams (software)
1990 - 10.750 - Funhouse - Williams (software / co-design?)
1992 - 20,270 - Addams Family - Bally (design / co-design?)
1993 - 15,235 - Twilight Zone - Bally (software / co-design?)
1995 - 2,428 - Jack*Bot - Willams (design / co-design?)

BRIAN EDDY:
1990 - 10.750 - Funhouse - Williams (software / co-design?)
1991 - 8,100 - Bride of Pin*Bot - Williams (software)
1992 - 3,746 - Black Rose - Bally (design / co-design?)
1995 - 3,450 - Attack From Mars - Bally (design)
1997 - 4,016 - Medieval Madness - Williams (design / co-design?)

TED ESTES:
1993 - 15,235 - Twilight Zone - Bally (software / co-design?)
1994 - 6,259 - Red & Ted's Road Show - Williams (design / co-design?)

PAUL FARIS:
1981 - 3,700 - Centaur - Bally (art)
1990 - 2,750 - Phantom of the Opera - Data East (art)

GREG FRERES:
1989 - 4,000 - Elvira and the Party Monsters - Bally (art)
1990 - 4,000 - Dr. Dude - Bally (art)
1991 - 4,000 - Party Zone - Bally (art)
1993 - 11,733 - Star Trek: The Next Generation - Williams (art)
1996 - 4,028 - Scared Stiff - Bally (art)
1997 - 4,016 - Medieval Madness - Williams (art)

GEORGE GOMEZ:
1998 - 3,361 - Monster Bash - Williams
NPA 2002 - ???? - Playboy - Stern (co-designer)
NPA 2008 - ???? - Batman - Stern (design)
NPA year - ???? - Corvette - manu (design)
NPA year - ???? - Johnny Mnemonic - manu (design)
NPA year - ???? - NBA Fastbreak - manu (design)
NPA year - ???? - Revenge From Mars - manu (design)
NPA year - ???? - Lord of the Rings - manu (design / co-design?)
NPA year - ???? - The Sopranos - manu (design)
NPA year - ???? - Transformers - manu (design)
NPA year - ???? - The Avengers - manu (design)

KEITH P. JOHNSON:
2001 - 1,200 - High Roller Casino - Stern (design)
NPA year - ???? - Lord of the Rings - manu (design / co-design?)

JOE KAMINKOW:
1984 - 7,000 - Space Shuttle - Williams (design / co-design?)
1990 - 2,750 - Phantom of the Opera - Data East (co-design)
1991 - 1,668 - Class of 1812 - Gottlieb (design / co-design?)
1997 - 1,500 - Starship Troopers - Stern (co-design)

GREG KMECK:
1979 - 11,000 - Xenon - Bally (designer)

TONY KOPERA:
1998 - 903 - Cactus Canyon - Bally (design / co-designer?)

ED KRYNSKI:
1966 - 3,100 - Central Park - Gottlieb (design)
1974 - 2,900 - Big Shot - Gottlieb (design)
1979 - 6,800 - Genie - Gottlieb (design)
1984 - 905 - El Dorado: City of Gold - Gottlieb (design)

PAT LAWLOR:
1989 - 5,265 - Earthshaker - Williams (design)
1990 - 10.750 - Funhouse - Williams (design / co-design?)
1990 - 7,300 - Whirlwind - Williams (design)
1992 - 20,270 - Addams Family - Bally (design / co-design?)
1993 - 15,235 - Twilight Zone - Bally (design / co-design?)
1994 - 6,259 - Red & Ted's Road Show - Williams (design / co-design?)
1996 - 1,148 - Safe Cracker - Bally (design)
1997 - 2,711 - No Good Gofers - Williams (design)
2004 - 2,750 - Ripley's Believe It Or Not! - Stern (design)

DENNIS NORDMAN:
1989 - 4,000 - Elvira and the Party Monsters - Bally (designer)
1990 - 4,000 - Dr. Dude - Bally (design)
1991 - 4,000 - Party Zone - Bally (design)
1993 - 7,008 - White Water - Williams (design)
1996 - 4,028 - Scared Stiff - Bally (design / co-design?)

JOHN NORRIS:
1989 - 1,708 - Lights... Camera... Action! - Gottlieb (design)
1992 - 5,700 - Cue Ball Wizard - Gottlieb (design)
1993 - 3,500 - Tee'd Off - Gottlieb (design / co-design?)
2001 - 1,200 - High Roller Casino - Stern (concept)

JOHN OSBORNE:
1982 - 6,835 - Haunted House - Gottlieb (design)

BARRY OURSLER:
1979 - 14,000 - Gorgar - Williams (design)
1984 - 7,000 - Space Shuttle - Williams (design / co-design?)
1986 - 12,001 - Pin*Bot - Williams (co-design)
1988 - 9,400 - Cyclone - Williams (design)
1993 - 6,801 - Bram Stoker's Dracula - Williams (design / co-design?)
1995 - 2,428 - Jack*Bot - Willams (design / co-design?)
1995 - 2,416 - WHO dunnit - Bally (design / co-design?)
1996 - 3,013 - Junk Yard - Williams (design / co-design?)

JIM PATLA:
1981 - 3,700 - Centaur - Bally (design)
1989 - 4,000 - Elvira and the Party Monsters - Bally (co-design)

PETE PIOTROWSKI:
1998 - 1,369 - Champion Pub - Bally (design)

JOHN POPADIUK:
1995 - 6,600 - Theatre of Magic - Bally (design)
1996 - 3,128 - Tales of the Arabian Nights - Williams (design)
1997 - 2,704 - Cirqus Voltaire - Bally (design / co-design?)

MARK RITCHIE:
1988 - 7,300 - Taxi - Williams (co-design)
1989 - 4,000 - Elvira and the Party Monsters - Bally (co-design)
1990 - 3,552 - Diner - Williams (design)
1992 - 13,640 - Fish Tales - Williams (design)

STEVE RITCHIE:
1980 - 13.075 - Black Knight - Williams (design)
1980 - 17,410 - Firepower - Williams (design)
1986 - 17,080 - High Speed - Williams (design)
1987 - 14,502 - F-14 Tomcat - Williams (design)
1989 - 5,703 - Black Knight 2000 - Williams (design)
1989 - 4,000 - Elvira and the Party Monsters - Bally (co-design)
1991 - 15,202 - Terminator 2 - Williams (design)
1992 - 13.259 - The Getaway: High Speed 2 - Williams (design)
1993 - 11,733 - Star Trek: The Next Generation - Williams (design)

LONNIE D. ROPP:
1990 - 2,750 - Phantom of the Opera - Data East (software)
1999 - 750 - Harley Davidson Third Edition - Stern (co-design)

ADOLF SEITZ JR.:
1981 - 8,774 - Black Hole - Gottlieb (co-design)
1983 - 10 - Goin' Nuts - Gottlieb (design)

LYMAN SHEATS JR.:
1997 - 4,016 - Medieval Madness - Williams (rules / concept?)

CAMERON SILVER:
1997 - 2,704 - Cirqus Voltaire - Bally (design / co-design?)

MARK SPRENGER:
1993 - 6,801 - Bram Stoker's Dracula - Williams (design / co-design?)

DWIGHT SULLIVAN:
1994 - 6,259 - Red & Ted's Road Show - Williams (design / co-design?)
1995 - 2,416 - WHO dunnit - Bally (design / co-design?)
1996 - 3,013 - Junk Yard - Williams (design / co-design?)
NPA 2002 - ???? - Playboy - Stern (co-designer)

RAY TANZER:
1991 - 1,668 - Class of 1812 - Gottlieb (design / co-design?)
1993 - 3,500 - Tee'd Off - Gottlieb (design / co-design?)

JOHN TRUDEAU:
1987 - 3,315 - Victory - Gottlieb (design)
1991 - 8,100 - Bride of Pin*Bot - Williams (co-design)
1992 - 3,746 - Black Rose - Bally (design / co-design?)
1992 - 7,841 - Creature from the Black Lagoon - Bally (design)

MARK WEYNA:
1996 - 4,028 - Scared Stiff - Bally (design / co-design?)

HARRY WILLIAMS:
1980 - 6,301 - Flight 2000 - Stern (design)

JOHN YOUSSI:
1990 - 7,300 - Whirlwind - Williams (art)
1990 - 10.750 - Funhouse - Williams (art)
1991 - 8,100 - Bride of Pin*Bot - Williams (art)
1992 - 20,270 - Addams Family - Bally (art)
1993 - 7,008 - White Water - Williams (art)
1993 - 15,235 - Twilight Zone - Bally (art)
1994 - 6,259 - Red & Ted's Road Show - Williams (art)
1997 - 4,016 - Medieval Madness - Williams (art)
1997 - 2,711 - No Good Gofers - Williams (art)
1998 - 903 - Cactus Canyon - Bally (art)
2001 - 1,200 - High Roller Casino - Stern (art)
2004 - 2,750 - Ripley's Believe It Or Not! - Stern (art)

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HONORABLE MENTIONS (associated artists who may not yet been in TPA):

CHRIS GRANNER:
NPA year - ???? - Lord of the Rings - manu (design / co-design? with Keith P. Johnson and George Gomez)

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15111400 - added john borg's "frankenstein" - it is a williams board, isn't it? the tpa menu selection doesn't indicate the maker in a subhead as it usually does, nor does the "extra/table info" - and without purchasing, i can't investigate the table art closer to see.

 

[invitro]

I salute your efforts .

UNKNOWN??? (no named designer mentioned in TPA table history info???)

1966 - 3,100 - Central Park - Gottlieb
1974 - 2,900 - Big Shot - Gottlieb (investigate 1973's Hot Shot for designer)
1979 - 6,800 - Genie - Gottlieb
1981 - 8,774 - Black Hole - Gottlieb
1983 - 10 - Goin' Nuts - Gottlieb
1998 - 1,369 - Champion Pub - Bally

From IPDB:
CentPk, BigShot, Genie - Ed Krynski
BH - John Buras, Adolf Seitz Jr.
GoinNuts - Adolf Seitz Jr.
CP - Pete Piotrowski is listed on IPDB for "Concept", but there is no "Designer" field. Some research here might be good. I was under the impression that Dwight Sullivan (who has the "Software" credit) designed it.

IPDB says PotO had 2,750 units made. It doesn't have numbers for Taxi, SST, HD3E, RBIoN, or STTNG.

I'll check Mr. Pinball's book for what it says about these five in a bit.

 

[WhiteChocolate]

nifty-neato; i'll add your notes di-rectly!

p.s. done and done! let me know if i messed up though addin' your corrections; fear i might've missed up somethin' there...

p.p.s. i tell ya it just gives such a new perspective on it all, especially for those of us who pinball was kind of a 'lost generation' thing, 80s thru the ninties/00s... like for example, how does george gomez come thru all that and have such a smash outta the park like 'monster bash'?? (i'd seen once a site that had private sketches of the work done for mb; obviously -brilliant- work, a brilliant artist!! but since it doesn't seem like anything else of his has been TPA'd... what else -has- he done that's noteworthy, that might should be in TPA?? :0 -has- he done anything else... or was it just such a one-off, one-hit wonder, that he wanted or needed to ever do any other table?? it's an immediate-curiosity stand-out from the list for me!

 

[invitro]

like for example, how does george gomez come thru all that and have such a smash outta the park like 'monster bash'?? (i'd seen once a site that had private sketches of the work done for mb; obviously -brilliant- work, a brilliant artist!! but since it doesn't seem like anything else of his has been TPA'd... what else -has- he done that's noteworthy, that might should be in TPA?? :0 -has- he done anything else... or was it just such a one-off, one-hit wonder, that he wanted or needed to ever do any other table?? it's an immediate-curiosity stand-out from the list for me!

Gomez has done a lot, but it's all licensed other than MB and RFM. He designed:
- Corvette
- Johnny Mnemonic
- NBA Fastbreak
- Revenge From Mars
- Playboy (Stern 2002, co-designer, listed after Dwight Sullivan)
- Lord of the Rings (listed first, with Keith P. Johnson and Chris Granner)
- The Sopranos
- Batman (Stern 2008)
- Transformers
- The Avengers

I think Gomez is a very high muckety-muck at Stern now.

 

[WhiteChocolate]

wooooow, so he's just still so 'new' that more of his stuff hasn't gotten in yet... very impressive list!! somewhere back a ways someone posted a vid of johnny m, i rather liked what i saw - would be a cool one to add to TPA, if it can be done!

 

[invitro]

IPDB says PotO had 2,750 units made. It doesn't have numbers for Taxi, SST, HD3E, RBIoN, or STTNG.

I'll check Mr. Pinball's book for what it says about these five in a bit.

This is from Mr. Pinball's "Pinball List & Price Guide", 2011/21st edition.

Taxi: ~7,300 (~6,300 for "Lola", ~1,000 for "Marilyn")
STTNG: ~11,733 (11,525 for regular version, ~200 for "domed cannons", ~8 "rumor" for "large Neutral Zone hole")
SST: 1,500
RBIoN: 2,750
HD3E: ~750 (in two runs: 400 in 2004-11, ~350 in 2005-05) and this is for the 3rd edition only.

The "~" means the production number is a "rumor". So use your judgement on those, or even better, check out Mr. Pinball's reputation... it used to be very high, and probably is now.

 

[invitro]

wooooow, so he's just still so 'new' that more of his stuff hasn't gotten in yet... very impressive list!! somewhere back a ways someone posted a vid of johnny m, i rather liked what i saw - would be a cool one to add to TPA, if it can be done!

Well, I love Johnny Mn and Corv with all my heart and want them badly. I think NBAF is kinda crappy. RFM sux but it's much, much, much better than SWE1. I played Playboy only one afternoon at a truck stop (of course), and really liked it a lot. I've played Sopranos quite a bit and liked it quite a bit. I've never played LotR, Batman, Transformers, or Avengers except maybe at an auction.

Many people think JMn is likely, if the Sony license isn't used up. I think Sopranos would be a good one to go after, unless its MPU is too new, or it's just too "risque" to pass the desired crudeness ratings.

 

[invitro]

like for example, how does george gomez come thru all that and have such a smash outta the park like 'monster bash'??

I want to say that I have a hunch (or maybe heard somewhere) that Lyman had a LOT to do with Monster Bash, in a very positive way. I would enjoy seeing a list of all the tables that Lyman has been involved with. He may be the best rules designer in pinball history .

 

[WhiteChocolate]

I want to say that I have a hunch (or maybe heard somewhere) that Lyman had a LOT to do with Monster Bash, in a very positive way. I would enjoy seeing a list of all the tables that Lyman has been involved with. He may be the best rules designer in pinball history .

yeah and there's him too; one sole listing really for medieval madness... and just for a "rules" mention... quite a mystery story there! we need a stephen levy's "hackers" style book covering the pb industry to fill in the gaps..

 

[Pinballwiz45b]

I want to say that I have a hunch (or maybe heard somewhere) that Lyman had a LOT to do with Monster Bash, in a very positive way. I would enjoy seeing a list of all the tables that Lyman has been involved with. He may be the best rules designer in pinball history .

Don't make Lyman grumpy.

 

[invitro]

p.s. done and done! let me know if i messed up though addin' your corrections; fear i might've missed up somethin' there...

I wouldn't list Sullivan for Champion Pub just yet... it's just my recollection and/or hunch that he did more than software. Unless you can confirm with another source, probably just assume Piotrowski is the designer.

Other than IPDB not listing a designer for CP, another thing is that this is Piotrowski's sole mention in IPDB for any role... designer, software, music, anything. None of the other people credited for CP have done design other than Sullivan. And Sullivan was and is a very, very busy man with credits on 27 tables to date from Riverboat Gambler to Wrestlemania, but he has a blank year in 1997, the only one from 1990 to 2009. And CP very much "feels" like a Sullivan design to me, which is probably the main reason I got the impression that he actually designed it. Anyway, I bet a little bit of internet research would clear this up.

 

[invitro]

Don't make Lyman grumpy.

Have you seen his Today Show appearance with Bryant Gumbel? It was right after a PAPA... in 1995, I think. Gumbel had him play a Wipe Out (which was in the finals of PAPA 1995) to demonstrate pinball skill.

If Lyman can get on big-time national television to show off pinball, and then have among the dozens of available pinball machines, wind up playing WIPE OUT, without getting murderous, let alone just grumpy, I think Lyman can take it.

(The appearance is on youtube.)

 

[WhiteChocolate]

heh!! pulled that up easily... very fun! seems like a really affable kinda guy i'd like to work with, if i were so lucky to! great under "bryant gumbel" pressure, lol! that last q, "why has pinball lasted?" i'd recently thought, there's no other game like it that challenges you - and you alone! - get to "hack gravity"... other sports, pro and non, sure they do - stuff like tennis especially, stuff like that! but with pb, it's you, the machine layout, electricty!! , then the ball, and gravity. (dunno, guess that's five elements instead of two, but that gravity, she's a beech! ;0)

 

[neglectoid]

great list. thanks.

 

[Snorzel]

Great idea thanks

 

[karl]

Great list.

Probably more to add later, but on first glance I see that you forgot Ted Estes and Larry Demar -software/Design on Twilight zone

and Funhouse - Larry Demar on co-design and software, Brian Eddy on software

More Larry Demar: Software on Black Knight, Space Shuttle and High Speed

LONNIE D. ROPP software on Phantom of the Opera

A couple of Art add-ons (if you are looking for those as well)

Paul Faris: Art on Centaur

Greg Freres: Art on Elvira, Dr. Dude, The Party Zone, Star Trek TNG, Scared Stiff, Medieval Madness (with John Youssi)

John Youssi: Art on Whirlwind, Funhouse, Bride of Pin*bot, The Addams Family, White Water, Twilight Zone, Road Show, Medieval Madness(with Greg Freres), No good Gofers, Cactus Canyon, High Roller Casino, Ripley's

Doug Watson: Art on Flight 2000, F14, Black Knight 2000, Terminator 2, The Getaway, Attack from Mars(also Martian voices)

 

[WhiteChocolate]

awesome, thanks! was just adding on to the gomez+collabs listing invitro provided... thinking about it though, i may decide later to not include NPA (Not in Pinball Arcade) tables, cuz that would obviously make the list spin outta control, like that BBC "Connections" show! but for some designers with only one or two standout tables, it's interesting to know what else they've done out there.

btw karl, is that paul "farris", or is "faris" correct (and would that a different guy on the phantom art? - p.s. sorry i said 'cyclone'; mistaken trying to go from memory

 

[karl]

Pretty sure Paul Faris is correct. I got it wrong at first too

Same guy on Phantom (one of the best artists in pinball, if you ask me)

 

[WhiteChocolate]

ahhh, thanks; -i- mistyped 'farris' in list originally! fixed now... yah, he's awesome; love that old centaur artwork! and phantom is lush too... he's obviously a more "painterly" artist with the tables than the usual cartoony-style... nothing wrong with that, but it's nice to see different styles!