Game Plan (company)

Game Plan was a pinball manufacturer that produced pinball tables from 1978 to 1985.{{cite book |last=Rossignoli |first=Marco |title=The Complete Pinball Book: Collecting the Game and Its History |year=2011 |publisher=Schiffer Publishing, Limited |pages=81, 257 |isbn=9780764337857 }} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.gameplanpinball.com/history.shtml |title=Game Plan Pinball History |publisher=Gameplanpinball.com |access-date=2010-08-09}}[http://www.tokensonly.com/images/resources/documents/pdfs/pinballexpo1985.pdf Pinball Expo 1985]

The company initially produced cocktail-style pinball tables and produced five different models in their first year of existence.{{cite web|url=http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?searchtype=advanced&mfgid=126 |title=The Internet Pinball Machine Database |publisher=Ipdb.org |date=1980-04-01 |access-date=2010-08-09}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?searchtype=advanced&mfgid=126#2113 |title=The Internet Pinball Machine Database |publisher=Ipdb.org |date=1980-04-01 |access-date=2010-08-09}}

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).{{cite web|url=http://www.gameplanpinball.com/history.shtml |title=gameplanpinball.com |access-date=2010-08-09}}{{cite web|url=http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=person&name=John+Trudeau |title=john trudeau list of games at arcade-history |publisher=Arcade-history.com |access-date=2010-08-09}} Ed Cebula later worked as a playfield designer and mechanical engineer at Data East Pinball.{{cite web|url=http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=person&name=Ed+Cebula |title=ed cebula list of games at arcade-history |publisher=Arcade-history.com |access-date=2010-08-09}}