Game Plan (company)

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

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 "Wild West" 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 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). Ed Cebula later worked as a table designer and mechanical engineer at Data East Pinball.

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)