An article from today's Sydney Morning Herald.  http://www.smh.com.au/world/design-wizard-whose-flippers-gave-birth-to-modern-pinball-20120229-1u338.html.

Not often at all where someone can be in a job for so long, enjoy it as much as he did, and best of all, had alot of fun along the way.

+1 .
I imagine very, very few people would have had (or ever will have) a career like Steve's.