Happy Birthday Mr. Neyens - you are a true GIANT among pinball designers!

THANK YOU for the many, many fantastic games that you have created! They have brought joy to countless folks throughout the world and will continue to do so far into the future.

Happy Birthday Mr. Neyens!
Thank you for your contributions to creating some fun pinball machines to play.
I trust that you enjoy seeing so many old machines being saved/repaired/restored and then played and enjoyed by people young and old.
Party on Wayne!

Here is a pic taken of a page from Appendix F - Designers in Mr. Pinball Pinball List & Price Guide, 2006 Edition.
You can see that Mr. Wayne Neyens worked on over 160 different machines in the 1949 to 1976 time frame.
(over 175 per wiki).
WayneNeyens-pinball_designer-49-76-Gtb-gamelist (resized).jpg

Happy 99th Birthday Mr. Neyen's, it was a honor to meet you at Expo in 2014, you are indeed a giant of the industry and have created some of it's most iconic games.

Is that photo up top a recent one? He looks amazing!!

Kings and Queens was one of the very first 2" flipper games I played, when I attended my second ever pinball tournament 6 years ago, along with that event being my introduction to EMs in general. Being an 80's-born kid, EMs were before my time, and I never got to see them on location. K&Q was by far out of the 15 or so games that I played, my favorite. So much so, that if I get around to doing a second fully custom machine, I want to use a similar ball-walker mechanic for my physical locks. Slick Chick I didn't get to play until much later, but that game as well is the pinnacle of pop bumper mechanics. Uncomplicated and just a ton of fun to play.

Happy 99th Birthday Wayne Neyens! Thank you for you many pinball designs over the years of which I own two Spirit of 76 and Buckaroo. Here is a little message we made for you.

Ken

"Happy Birthday" God Bless..
It seems as though Ice Revue and Ice Show should be on that list.
Years back I picked up an Ice Show and in it was a schematic where
a couple of circuits were modified in red, and at the end of a memo
was written Wayne Neyens - Chief Eng.
I had good times talking to old time Venders, but what a time it
would be to sit down and talk with Wayne..

Happy 99th birthday Mr. Neyens!
Here's to 100!

The Legend say that when The gods of pinball arrived, Wayne Neyens turned on electricity.

I'm a french pinball addict, I don't search for a cure.

Everything happen, when I was young. One day my father came to home with an "Happy Clown"

thanks for that and all the rest Mister Neyens and happy birthday to U ^^

Here's Wayne as a "youngster" playing Slick Chick at the 1999 Chicago Pinball Expo.

Happy birthday, buddy, and thanks for all the memories.

1999_October_APS_0029.jpg I'm pretty sure this is Wayne Neyens playing Slick Chick, a game he designed. Chicago Pinball Expo, 1999. (resized).jpg

Is he gonna hit 100 this year?

Wayne Neyens is Awesome ! Most people could not do in two lifetimes what he has done in one .

Yep.

Happy birthday Wayne! You are #1 among pinball designers in my book!