{"id":1705,"date":"2018-02-25T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2018-02-26T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T10:07:47","slug":"weterani-branzy-flipperow-ken-fedesna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"Weterani bran\u017cy flipper\u00f3w – Ken Fedesna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mimo ewidentnego powrotu flipper\u00f3w na rynek coin-op w ostatnich latach nie jest to bran\u017ca do\u015b\u0107 liczna. <\/strong>Warto wi\u0119c przypomnie\u0107 jednego z weteran\u00f3w flipper\u00f3w, kt\u00f3ry wci\u0105\u017c dzia\u0142a na polu automat\u00f3w coin-op i mimo wieku odgrywa istotn\u0105 rol\u0119 w projektowaniu nowych.<\/strong>
\nChodzi o Kena Fedesn\u0119, kt\u00f3ry w automatowej bran\u017cy zaczyna\u0142 ponad 40 lat temu i to gdzie, w legendarnej ju\u017c chicagowskiej WMS Industries, grupuj\u0105cej marki Williams, Bally i Midway.
\nKen Fedesna w 1977 roku zatrudni\u0142 si\u0119 w\u0142a\u015bnie w Williams Electronics Division pomagaj\u0105c firmie w opracowaniu jej pierwszego sterowanego mikroprocesorowo flippera „HOT TIP”.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dwie wersje flippera Hot Tip\u00a0 (photo credit www.ipdb.org<\/a>)<\/em>
\nW ci\u0105gu kolejnych 27 lat Ken pe\u0142ni\u0142 r\u00f3\u017cne, g\u0142\u00f3wnie kierownicze stanowiska w WMS, jak cho\u0107by Dyrektora Technicznego, czy vice Prezesa ds technicznych, a w ko\u0144cu w 1988 roku zosta\u0142 vice Prezesem i Dyrektorem Generalnym WMS.
\nPrzypomnijmy, \u017ce w tych to czasach firma WMS \u015bwi\u0119ci\u0142a najwi\u0119ksze triumfy, a pod czujnym okiem Prezesa powstawa\u0142y takie legendarne ju\u017c flippery jak FLASH, HIGH SPEED, czy ADDAMS FAMILY oraz gry wideo DEFENDER, JOUST, NBA JAM, NFL BLITZ, czy MORTAL KOMBAT.<\/p>\n

\"\" Ekipa Team Playa z nagroda Brass Ringd dla gry FishBowl Frenzy na targach IAAPA 2014 w Orlando.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Od lewej: Geno Giuntoli, Ed Pellegrini, Ken Fedesna i Brian Smolik.<\/em>
\nObecnie Ken jest Dyrektorem Operacyjnym i wsp\u00f3\u0142w\u0142a\u015bcicielem sp\u00f3\u0142ki Team Play, Inc., kt\u00f3ra zajmuje si\u0119 projektowaniem i produkcj\u0105 gier redemption w rodzaju FishBowl Frenzy i Launch Code.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ken Fedesna w rozmowie z klientk\u0105 na targach IAAPA 2017 w Orlando, USA.<\/em>
\nMnie uda\u0142o si\u0119 spotka\u0107 Kena dwukrotnie na targach IAAPA w Orlando, USA. Po raz pierwszy w 2014 roku, gdzie firma Kena Team Play zdoby\u0142a nagrod\u0119 Brass Ring dla FishBowl Frenzy i drugi raz w ubieg\u0142ym roku, gdzie z dum\u0105 prezentowa\u0142 na stoisku Team Playa najnowszy automat Family Guy Bowling.<\/p>\n

Val B.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mimo ewidentnego powrotu flipper\u00f3w na rynek coin-op w ostatnich latach nie jest to bran\u017ca do\u015b\u0107 liczna. Warto wi\u0119c przypomnie\u0107 jednego z weteran\u00f3w flipper\u00f3w, kt\u00f3ry wci\u0105\u017c dzia\u0142a na polu automat\u00f3w coin-op i mimo wieku odgrywa istotn\u0105 rol\u0119 w projektowaniu nowych. Chodzi o Kena Fedesn\u0119, kt\u00f3ry w automatowej bran\u017cy zaczyna\u0142 ponad 40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[99,141,111,146,100,103,147,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ciekawostki-artykuly","tag-flippery","tag-gry-redemption","tag-gry-zrecznosciowe","tag-ken-fedesna","tag-pinballs","tag-targi","tag-team-play","tag-videogames","tag-williams-electronics","tag-wms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flippery.com.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}