Received this mail earlier today Via Larry DeMar....
Hello friends. I received this sad message this morning:
Subject: Steve Kordek
This morning at 5:30am Steve Kordek passed away to join his heavenly father. No plans for the Mass and funeral have been made and we will let you know the details when they become available. Thank all of you for your many prayers and concerns.
Father Frank, Kathy, Richard and Donna.
Steve was well known for his work.
Taken from http://www.designboom.com.......
Hello friends. I received this sad message this morning:
Subject: Steve Kordek
This morning at 5:30am Steve Kordek passed away to join his heavenly father. No plans for the Mass and funeral have been made and we will let you know the details when they become available. Thank all of you for your many prayers and concerns.
Father Frank, Kathy, Richard and Donna.
Steve was well known for his work.
Taken from http://www.designboom.com.......
Back in 1948, Steve Kordek had never designed a game in his life. but when the head designer of
Genco pinball company fell ill, Kordek, then a young employee, took over trying to develop
the prototype for a new kind of pinball machine. Kordek took the idea of the
'flipper', a now crucial component of pinball, from a competitor. Originally, outfitted with six flippers,
he reduced his version to two, but which still had enough power to flip the ball back to the top of the
game board. He thought this was enough and that's how the game has come to be known.
Since then, Kordek has gone on to design about 100 pinball games and worked hundreds more.
Pinball has quintessentially been a chicago game, based loosely on the french game of bagatelle.
the first modern pinball machine began in 1931 when david gottlieb designed a tabletop
mechanical action model with a coin slot.
