John Popadiuk

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John A. Popadiuk Jr. is a Canadian pinball machine designer. He started work in the business at 19 for Bally in 1980,^[1][2] and later at WMS Gaming from 1989 to 2000.^[3] He now works for deeproot Tech as Exclusive Game Designer.

He is credited as principal designer for many popular pinball machines in the 1990s including Theatre of Magic, Tales of the Arabian Nights, World Cup Soccer, Star Wars Episode I, and Cirqus Voltaire.^[4][5]