Tim Skelly died last march (2020).....

[level42]

Sorry....pretty late to discover this but last march (2020) Tim Skelly died.

https://twitter.com/SeamusBlackley/status/1234661993740525581

Tim designed the bulk of Cinematronics/Vectorbeam games and Reactor, Insector and Screwloose at Gottlieb.

I still love video game history so sad to learn of his death, he was definitely one of the pioneers ! He was also the first one to get his name on-screen on any arcade videogame (Reactor).

Quite interesting story he wrote here:

https://dadgum.com/giantlist/archive/cinematronics.html

[Andreas_AUT]

interesting article

[Luigi]

Well, our heros are getting into an age where it can happen each day 

Thanks for sharing...I will read it later to a cup of coffee 

[level42]

Very true but he didn't really was that old.....IMHO....

I loved Reactor on the 2600..... I don't remember ever playing the arcade machine.

[Luigi]

According to Wikipedia he was born 1951...well, not an age you want to leave this place 

I just read that he wrote Rip Off  ....one of my favourite coop games!! We have Take Off, a clone, but unfortunateley it doesn't work due to pcb damage