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John Borg as well - X-Men LE is my favourite game that I own. Transformers was designed by George Gomez, not John Borg.
Yes, my mistake. You are correct.
I thought they worked on it together but Borgy didn't do this one.
Gomez has a unusual style to his games.
Regarding Borgy for me, I didn't realise I had so many of his designs until one day I just thought I would do a list of the games I have, and group the titles by the designer.
It was then I realised Borgys name kept appearing again & again.
So I then printed off a list of every game he has ever designed & thought I would investigate & study those games to see what they are like & if I like that title & what sort of money etc etc.
To put it in perspective, if you had a collection of just Steve Ritchies pins or Borgys stuff just for arguments sake, I don't think anyone playing all of them would have anything but a great time.
Another interesting thing is if you like pins like Nino does prior to DMD, it opens up a whole new world to designers I haven't really learnt much about.
I wionder who would reign supreme if u added up all the titles ever produced and then sold , as to who would win by that designer over their career.
Say one winner for 1950 to 1970.
Say one winner for 1970 to 1990.
Say one winner for 1990 to 2015.
I would like to know who is the winner for any game with a DMD display onwards.
Data Easts TMNT had the first very thin DMD with animations etc for them from memory so I mention this title to include any size of DMD with graphics plus alpha numerical etc, not just the DMD style and size we see today.
Might sit down & study IPDB for the DMD stuff but it gets hard & goes nowhere fast when Stern stopped listing total sales numbers so the DMD category might run from apx 1990 to 2004 or something and not include anything in the last ten years.
I am thinking Borgy would win the DMD sales race so to speak on sheer numbers of titles designed. ? ?
It is great to see so many people have different designers as their favourite.
One name you barely ever see is a guy called Ward Pemberton who designed Gilligans Island for Bally.
I like watching that factory promo video he did for Gilligans.
I enjoy playing it & it's a really straight forward fun design but had some great thinking for easy service in its design.
After Gilligans, I have not seen or heard of designer Ward Pemberton again.
Are there any one hit wonders who came into the industry, did one or two great titles, then dissapeared off to who knows ?
