Pat Lawlor

Patrick M. Lawlor (born November 30, 1951) is a video game and pinball machine designer.

Pat Lawlor had originally been a video game designer and had entered the coin-operated game design industry in 1980, working for Dave Nutting Associates. Lawlor's pinball career began as an engineer for Williams in 1987, when he co-designed a dual-playfield machine called ''Banzai Run'' with Larry DeMar. In 1988, he was assigned his first individual design project, a machine entitled ''Earthshaker!'', which was released in January 1989. Notably, ''Earthshaker!'' was the first pinball machine with a shaker motor. Provided by Wikipedia