Since I started acquiring pinball machines a few years back, I strived for variety throughout the years and also picked up some of my favorite machines from the past. A few have come and gone, but I am very happy with where my collection is now.

As I research each game, I started noticing that not many were designed by the same guy. So I looked into it and found 18 different designers, not including other members on the team, were given credit for the 25 machines I have now. The most I have by one designer is four by Steve Ritchie.

A few of the machines (including GnR, No Fear, Big Guns, and a couple others ) were given credit to a team, but the rest as far as I can tell are single designers.

Here is the list-

Harry Williams
Harry Mabs
Wayne Neyens
Steve Kordek
Gordon Horlick
Norm Clark
Jim Patla
Ted Zale
Ed Krynski
Greg Kmiec
Bill Parker
Steve Ritchie
John Trudeau
Barry Oursler
Brian Eddy
John Borg
Mark Ritchie
Joe Kaminkow

Besides the designers mentioned above-
Python Anghelo was given design team credit on Big Guns
Slash and Lyman F. Sheats Jr. were given team credit on GnR.
Greg Freres, Matt Coriale, and Dwight Sullivan were given team credit on No fear.

A couple of the above mentioned were on other machines design teams as well.

Nice variety so far. Since I'm bored at work, I figured I'd research some of the designers that passed through here but are no longer in my collection-

George Christian
Keith Johnson
Joe Balcer
Pat Lawlor
Joe Norris
John Popadiuk
Tim Seckel
Ed Cebula

If I can come up with any more, I will add them to the list.

This is pretty cool. Usually only a handful of designers get mentioned, but I am seeing a great many names come up that are and were involved in the creative process of pinball.