Inventor of pinball gaming dies aged 100
Steve Kordek, the pinball machine pioneer whose creations had fuelled the coin-op industry for decades, has died aged 100.
Chicago-born Kordek is widely believed to have designed the iconic two-flipper pinball machine. He passed away on February 19th.
He had designed more than one hundred different pinball board layouts for a range of manufacturers, according to a report in Time. He is also said to be the inventor of multi-ball play and pop-up targets on the tables. The concept of using flippers to repel a ball up an angled table arrived in 1947 with a game called Humpty Dumpty. However, the flippers were weak and so six were employed on each table.
