Line #6 Creator/BrianEddy


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3	->''"Before working on ''[[VideoGame/PsiOpsTheMindgateConspiracy Psi-Ops]]'' I spent 17 years working in the covert U.S. government Psi-Ops program officially know as Franchise/{{Stargate\|Verse}} (it's unclassified now so you can look it up). I was a remote viewing (RV) specialist and served in all the major wars and events of the last century. I was able to pinpoint enemy installations from thousands of miles away. After that I spent 12 years in a [[TheShangriLa Tibetan temple learning the ways of the Lama Priests]]. It was there that I learned the story of Reiki and how to harness my [[LifeEnergy Universal Life Force Energy]]. I then I spent 22 years working as a [[BurgerFool head fry cook at Burger Barn]] honing my life skills. Or maybe [[MostGamersAreMale I just love to play games]]."''
4	-->--From a 2004 interview
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6	Brian P. Eddy is a longtime designer of UsefulNotes/{{Arcade Game}}s, {{Pinball}}s, and VideoGames.
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8	As a child of TheSeventies, Brian grew up as a fan of both VideoGames and {{Pinball}}. He developed his early programming skills by writing his first games in assembly language on the Platform/VIC20 and the Platform/{{Commodore 64}}. After graduating from Macomb Community College in Milwaukee, he moved to Chicago, IL and joined Creator/WilliamsElectronics at the age of 21. He started as an effects programmer on ''Mousin' Around!'' and ''Bad Cats,'' then moved up to become a lead programmer for ''Pool Sharks, Pinball/TheMachineBrideOfPinbot, Pinball/BlackRose,'' and ''Pinball/IndianaJonesThePinballAdventure''.
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10	By then, Brian felt that he had learned enough to move up to game design, to which Engineering chief Ken Fedesna agreed. Brian's first game was ''Pinball/TheShadow'', which he both designed and programmed; he admits that it was a learning experience that taught him about the need to include and exclude game elements for balance. He followed that up with ''Pinball/AttackFromMars, Pinball/MedievalMadness,'' and ''[[VideoGame/HydroThunder Arctic Thunder]]''. After the closure of Williams' pinball division in 1999, Eddy moved to Midway Games, where he worked on ''VideoGame/PsiOpsTheMindgateConspiracy'' and ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception''.
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12	Today, Eddy is an executive at Spooky Cool Labs, a subdivision of Zynga that works on social casino gaming. He returned to the pinball industry as a Senior Game Designer for Creator/{{Stern}} at the tail end of TheNewTens, with ''Pinball/StrangerThings'' marking the first machine he designed in over 20 years.
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14	Oh, he also ''really'' likes cows. All those [[EasterEggs hidden cows in pinball games]] started with him.
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16	!!Games that Brian Eddy has worked on include:
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18	* ''Pinball/MousinAround'' (Bally, 1989)
19	* ''Bad Cats'' (Williams, 1989)
20	* ''Pool Sharks'' (Bally, 1990)
21	* ''Pinball/{{FunHouse\|1990}}'' (Williams, 1990)
22	* ''Pinball/TheMachineBrideOfPinbot'' (Williams, 1991)
23	* ''Pinball/BlackRose'' (Bally, 1992)
24	* ''Pinball/IndianaJonesThePinballAdventure'' (Williams, 1993)
25	* ''Pinball/TheShadow'' (Bally, 1994)
26	* ''Pinball/AttackFromMars'' (Bally, 1995)
27	* ''Pinball/MedievalMadness'' (Williams, 1997)
28	* ''[[VideoGame/HydroThunder Arctic Thunder]]'' (Midway Games, 2001)
29	* ''VideoGame/PsiOpsTheMindgateConspiracy'' (Midway Games, 2004)
30	* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception'' (Midway Games, 2004)
31	* ''VideoGame/{{Stranglehold}}'' (Midway Games, 2007)
32	* ''Pinball/StrangerThings'' (Stern, 2020)
33	* ''Pinball/TheMandalorian'' (Stern, 2021)
34	[[/index]]

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