koz1000

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by koz1000 11y ago
I was at Williams Pinball around this time and we had the "SAY NO TO DRUGS" as part of the built-in attract mode loop. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/423338433692506875/ We all hated it...but it was gentl
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by koz1000 11y ago
So I had a similar idea a long time ago (when I worked at a gaming company) to put a large illuminated button right on the front panel of the machine, simply labelled: [ LUCK ] ...that did absolutely nothing. It would have (by des
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by koz1000 11y ago
A wise man once told me: all project management eventually becomes an Excel spreadsheet.
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by koz1000 12y ago
The idea has been around forever, probably from the moment someone figured out how to attach a unique ID to a radio transmitter. I pitched the idea myself (half-heartedly) fifteen years ago which puts me 7 years before this guy. And other
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by koz1000 12y ago
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by koz1000 12y ago
Awesome! About that last line. It actually has a double meaning. I don't think Pat has ever discussed it. First one was that Pat is a big NASCAR fan (we were trying to get that license even back in the Williams days). So that's
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by koz1000 12y ago
Well, I can only take credit for one of those but thanks. It's always great meeting people that played our stuff all those years ago.
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by koz1000 12y ago
Very nice work. Now that you have a platform, you can start on the next mountain: making a fun game. =) Here's an old presentation I did on designing the MONOPOLY pinball machine for Stern back in 2001. (so old I had to dig it out of
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by koz1000 15y ago
I worked with Steve for a number of years at Williams. One of the most remarkable things about Steve is that he never retired. He came into the Williams plant every day up until the close of the pinball division and for years after. He wa
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by koz1000 15y ago
Try the Internet Pinball Database: http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1254 Humpty Dumpty added player-controlled flippers (which was a breakthrough in itself) but if you look at the images you'll see that the placement was awkward and har
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by koz1000 17y ago
As someone that worked with Mr. DeMar at Williams, I can honestly say that he was a "designer" in every sense of the word. He was an essential part of every design team, and a lot of times took a boring playfield and turned it into a highl