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You designed 3. 0+ games including EM, solid state and dot matrix in a career spanning 3 decades. Is there a particular machine you are most proud of and why?

Greg Kmiec: Historically speaking, the game that I am most proud of is Xenon. I designed Xenon as Bally’s first multi- level game with the pinball going under a part of the playfield (the tube.) (All of the contemporary games were single level.) The artist for the game, Paul Faris, saw the clear tube and he said it reminded him of a neon sign. He wanted a futuristic name for the game. The First Wives Club Online Putlocker. He came up with the name Xenon (an inert gas like neon.) Paul did a terrific job with the futuristic artwork. There's more about Xenon later in the interview)TPB: Who that you worked with was a highlight and who are you still friends with today? GK: Without question, the person that I worked with who was a highlight in my career was pinball artist Dave Christensen.

Wizard! was just the 4th game I ever designed and the attention Dave’s artwork generated on that game was unbelievable. The artwork was so different from contemporary games. It really put that game over the top. Bally Marketing VP Tom Nieman should be credited for his brilliance in securing the Wizard! When I designed the pinball game Wizard!, I had a different theme in mind. I designed the bonus lights in a W as the first letter in Wizard. I had envisioned a medieval- themed Merlin- type wizard as the main character in the game, flipping over the Flip- Flags with magic spells.

The Wizard playfield was given to Dave for artwork. Dave had quite a reputation as an eccentric artist. Everything you’ve heard about Dave’s eccentricity is true.

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But, isn’t that the case with every great artist? I am still good friends with Dave. We communicate regularly. TPB: There was break of several years between Transporter the Rescue and Breakshot.

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What was your brief with Capcom for the machine and how far did you get with other pinball designs that never made production before Capcom pulled out of pinball? GK: I designed a game called Red Line Fever just as Capcom was going out of business.

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It was a beautifully designed motorcycle themed game with actual handlebars mounted on the front of the cabinet to actuate the flippers, movable ramps and directionally timed speed- measuring features along with several severe playfield mechanical animations. I brought the game to a Pinball Expo one year and a motorcyclist tracked me down and told me it was just like riding a motorcycle. That comment made me feel good. The concept of using handlebars to control flippers on a pinball game was quite unique and years ahead of current thinking in pinball game design. TPB: Stan Fukuoka created some alternative art for Breakshot, which I'm guessing had a more adult edge. Was the art simply not suitable for the machine and have their been other instances in your career where the artwork was a way off what you had envisaged?

GK: I was brought into Capcom to design an economy game. Breakshot was designed as a single level playfield with an economy board set to distinguish it from 1. Capcom wanted to offer a game to the operator at a lower price.

The original artwork by Stan was indeed adult rated. The original name of the game was Cloud 9. The artwork had the ancient Gods looking down on the 9 planets of our solar system (Pluto was still a planet at the time.) As can be expected with Stan’s creative license and extreme talent, the female Gods were very scantily clad (if at all.) The president of the company saw the artwork and although he personally liked it, he thought it would be hard to sell it to family recreation centers.

So the 9 planets became 9 pool balls and Breakshot was born, with the pool games 9- Ball, Strikes and Spares and rotation. I have already mentioned that the artwork on Wizard!

Also changed was the artwork on Supersonic. Originally the name of the game was Star Ship. I designed the bonus lights to be the 2 S’s in Star Ship (a Star Trek themed gamed.) At that time, I had several promotional themed games in a row and Bally had just hired a new game designer. I gave up the Star Ship name and artwork to the new designer. His game used newly licensed artwork and eventually was named Star Trek. My game was already designed and in order to utilize the 2 S’s already on the playfield, the back glass name was changed to Supersonic and the playfield artwork was changed to SST. The Super Sonic Transport plane was also called SST.) (That is the reason that only the S’s are used in the bonus lights and not the T.)Artwork also changed on Spy Hunter.

Originally, I designed the game with an Elvis theme. The bonus lights represented the push buttons on the front of a juke box. Each button pair represented a different Elvis song. Aligning 2 bonus lights played the indicated song. The only problem with that was that at the time, Bally had not secured the Elvis license. I was a little ahead of the curve. Watch The Phantom Of The Opera At The Royal Albert Hall Streaming.

At the time, Bally had a video game called Spy Hunter and wanted to cross promote it with a pinball game. The Elvis game was a completely finished whitewood with hand drawn lettering indicating scoring features. My boss (ED: Norm Clark) gave me 2. Elvis theme to a Spy Hunter theme. I disassembled the entire top of the playfield and ran a belt sander across the entire playfield eliminating the juke box instructions. It took most of an overnight effort to re- letter the instructions to a Spy Hunter theme, reassemble the top of the playfield and trouble shoot the result. Let me tell you that sawdust does not mix well with playfield switches.

TPB: I'm led to believe City Slicker was planned to include a remote flipper button to enable an opponent to interfere with the game. Can you tell us more? GK: City Slicker did indeed have a remote controlled flipper on the playfield. I designed City Slicker as a gun- fighting themed game. The Roaring 2. 0’s styled artwork reinforced the gun battle theme. There was a gun handle attached to the pinball cabinet by a 6 foot steel cable (just like the gun handles used in video games to shoot at the screen.) The concept was to have your opponent stand alongside of the cabinet and give him control of one of the flippers on the playfield. The flipper was positioned mid- playfield to shoot the pinball into the out hole on an exact shot.

The pinball player could battle against the opponent’s shot and save the pinball. It was my attempt to make pinball more interactive instead of taking turns and watching others play their turn. The feature was years ahead of its time. TPB: Gary Flower sometimes wears the most ghastly 'pinball' jacket I've ever seen. It's based on the Wizard! I believe the story behind it's existence is a little strange, can you tell us more?

GK: Actually, that Wizard jacket was all the rage back in the day. You can blame Rob Berk, the founder of Pinball Expo, for Gary’s jacket. Rob had arrived in Chicago, the location for Pinball Expo, several days ahead of the show. As is our tradition, Rob, Gary, Jim Schelberg (editor of Pin Game Journal) and I met to discuss the nominees for that year’s Pin Ball Expo Hall Of Fame induction ceremony.

Rob then wanted to go shopping in downtown Chicago at Water Tower Place on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. World traveler that he is, Rob wanted to acquire something that had the Chicago look. All of us went to a clothing store in Water Tower Place.

I think Gary was the first one to spot an entire rack of Wizard jackets. Watch Lords Of Dogtown Online Forbes.

How I Met Your Mother Spinoff Starting Over. There’s still going to be a spinoff of How I Met Your Mother, but 2. Century Fox TV is starting over. The studio was originally making a second attempt to develop a spinoff of the beloved, long- running CBS sitcom in December, with This Is Us co- producers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger named the co- creators and writers of the series. It made sense for 2. Century Fox to go back to that well, as the original HIMYM averaged over 1. Aptaker and Berger had a change of plans in their schedules however, once the acclaimed This Is Us became a runaway hit in its first season and they became co- showrunners along with creator Dan Fogelman for season 2.

This left the future of the HIMYM spinoff hanging in the balance. But now the new show is back on, as 2.

Century Fox is seeking a fresh start with a new team of writers. As reported by Deadline on Tuesday, another HIMYM spinoff attempt is in the works from 2. Century Fox TV, called How I Met Your Father. This will be the third attempt to capitalize on the success of HIMYM, as How I Met Your Dad was being developed as far back as 2. Twentieth Century Fox is currently seeking new writers to pen a fresh spec script for the project, now that Aptaker and Berger are no longer available. It’s unclear whether the new series would air on CBS. Fox is hoping for the series to potentially be developed for next season.

Here’s how Fox chairman Dana Walden described the studio’s current plans for the newest spinoff to Deadline: “They will be starting from scratch. It’s one that’s been slowly cooked. If it’s the right idea the right execution, we’ll take that.”If How I Met Your Father is anything like previous spinoff attempts, it will likely not be your typical case. It would not feature any of the original HIMYM characters and instead focus on a new cast with the same storytelling format. It was obviously a successful structure for 2. Century Fox and CBS, and one worth trying again with a clean slate.

Of course, the last memory most How I Met Your Mother fans still have is of the polarizing series finale. For that reason, Fox may have plenty of viewers it will need to win back. It’s also something of a risk to create a spinoff that features entirely new characters, as the acting was clearly one of the highlights of the original series. But as far as spinoffs are concerned, Fox could certainly pick a worse show to emulate with a fresh idea. Source: Deadline.