Game Plan was a

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manufacturer that produced pinball tables from 1978 to 1985. Game Plan was a subsidiary of

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and was located in

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. Game Plan's president was former

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table designer Wendell McAdams. The company initially produced cocktail-style pinball tables and produced five different models in their first year of existence. The company began producing full-size tables with 1979's ''Sharpshooter'', a "

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" themed table. ''Sharpshooter'', incidentally, was Game Plan's best-selling table, having produced 4,200 units in all. 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

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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 ''

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'' (1994). Ed Cebula later worked as a playfield designer and mechanical engineer at

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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

External links

Game Plan Pinball.com website - HistoryInternet Pinball Database - Game Plan
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