Steve Richie is a legendary pinball designer known as the 'King of Flow' for his action-oriented, fast-paced game design philosophy. He spent approximately 17 years at Stern Pinball as a senior/lead designer, where he created iconic games including Star Trek, Star Wars, Led Zeppelin, Black Knight 2000, and Game of Thrones. Since joining Jersey Jack Pinball, he has designed Elton John and Guns N' Roses, with Sonic the Hedgehog reportedly in development. His career spans from the Atari prototype era through modern licensed pinball games, establishing him as one of pinball's most influential and celebrated designers.
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Steve Richie was involved with Elton John to solve Jersey Jack's flipper engineering problems
Steve Richie will design his last game in 2026 for Chicago Gaming
Steve Richie was interviewed in 'Special When Lit' documentary discussing pinball's cultural decline
Steve Richie designed Star Trek for Stern (2013)
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Sonic the Hedgehog is Steve Richie's latest and possibly final major pinball design
24 (2009 Stern) was designed by Steve Richie and coded by Lyman Sheets with approximately 1,200 units produced
Steve Richie's first game as a designer was Airborne Adventures
Steve Richie's next Jersey Jack Pinball game is not Fast and Furious
Steve Richie's unreleased game has the greatest layout Richie has ever designed and may be the greatest pinball game layout overall
Terminator 2 was the first WPC game released by Williams
Steve Richie made two James Bond playfields for Stern that were never used
Richie's last game release was 3.5 years ago before joining Jersey Jack
Deep rule sets have existed for a long time, not just in modern games
Steve Richie rejected Andrew Moskos' request to publicly read a comedic roast poem about Richie at a Dutch pinball event
Steve Richie designed Star Trek: The Next Generation after being inspired by T2
Steve Richie included 'Fire at Will' as a humorous reference to Will Wheaton, whom he dislikes as a Star Trek fan
Steve Richie designed Superman for Atari and it was one of his first games
Steve Richie left Atari before Superman was released to join Williams and design Flash
Steve Richie spent more time on Game of Thrones pinball than any other game in his entire career
Game of Thrones LE features an upper playfield with full-size flippers, which may be first implementation of this in pinball history
Game of Thrones is one of the biggest differences between Pro and LE/Premium in Stern history
Upper playfield features 2X and 3X playfield multipliers not available on lower playfield
Game of Thrones has potential equal to or exceeding any game Steve Richie has worked on
Steve Richie designed Game of Thrones
Steve Richie is the 'King of speed' in pinball design
Steve Richie provides all the voice acting for Stern AC/DC (Premium)
Steve Richie wrote the Black Knight 2000 multiball riff specifically for Dan Forden's electric guitar FM synthesis sound
Steve Richie was initially a prototype technician at Atari before becoming a game designer