Mark Ritchie

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Ritchie
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Aug 20, 1958(1958-08-20)
Age	66
Birthplace	Georgia
Country	United States
Horoscope	Leo

Mark Ritchie Biography

Mark Ritchie is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on August 20, 1958 in Georgia, United States. Mark Ritchie (born August 20 1958) is an American pinball designer and video game producer. He is most well-known for his popular pinball designs from 1982 to 1996. He continues to work in the field of coin-operated amusement and is currently the producer manager of Raw Thrills, Inc. and Play Mechanix, Inc. Mark is the younger brother of fellow design expert Steve Ritchie.

After Capcom ended the pinball business in the year 1996, Ritchie started a game design company that was appropriately called Ritchie Design, Ltd. The first game he created was a redemption-based game called Road Kill Grill, the rights to which were later transferred to Incredible Technologies, Inc.

In 2005, Ritchie left Incredible Technologies and began work at Raw Thrills, Inc., a video game production studio headed by acclaimed game designer Eugene Jarvis. After Play Mechanix merged with Raw Thrills in 2006, Ritchie relocated to the Play Mechanix studio, where he currently works as a producer and production coordinator and is involved in the development of coin-operated amusement video games.

Ritchie quit Williams Electronics in August, 1993, to take a new job in Capcom Coin-Op, Inc. He was appointed director of engineering in Capcom’s newly established pinball division. Capcom has released five pinball games under the direction of Ritchie which included Pinball Magic, Big Bang Bar and Kingpin which was his last traditional pinball design to date.

Mark Ritchie Net Worth

Mark Ritchie is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Ritchie 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ritchie’s first employment in the industry of pinball was at Atari, Inc. in 1976. While working at Atari the company, he worked in a variety of posts. His first job was an assembly worker at the company’s Santa Clara, California video game production facility. Within a few months, Ritchie was part of the group that was selected to establish Atari’s pinball manufacturing facility located in Sunnyvale. He worked as a production line leader and was then promoted in 1978 to a prototype specialist in Atari’s pinball engineering department. In this position, he was responsible for the construction, cabling as well as testing pinball prototypes. It was at this point that he began to understand the process of designing and development. At that time, Ritchie worked on the pinball games Hercules, Superman, Space Riders and Monza.

It was in 1979 that Ritchie got a job with Williams Electronics, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois as a prototype specialist. In 1981, he received the chance to create the game of his own, Thunderball. Ritchie was able to create 12 different games designed by Williams which included Taxi, Diner, Fish Tales and Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure. While working at Williams Electronics, Ritchie also developed two “pitch-and-bat” novelty amusement games, Pennant Fever and Slugfest.

In 1997, Ritchie accepted a full-time position at Incredible Technologies, Inc. as a designer and producer. While there, he was responsible for the packaging vision for a new digital jukebox project, which was at the forefront of the technology. Both designed and tested extensively, the product was not produced in significant numbers. Following, Ritchie was asked to provide packaging and design inspiration for I.T.’s new foray into touchscreen countertop game design. In 2001, Incredible Technologies agreed to produce Big Buck Hunter which was developed by Play Mechanix, Inc., and Ritchie assumed the role of producer on the project. Ritchie also designed Orange County Choppers – a video pinball game themed after the popular reality television series.

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Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mark Ritchie celebrates birthday on August 20 of every year.