Attila the Hun

Attila the Hun, released by Game Plan in April 1984, is a four-player solid-state game with an unusual production story. Designer John Trudeau actually created the playfield layout and original artwork around 1981 at the request of his mentor and boss Ed Cebula, but Game Plan decided to exit pinball production at that time and the game was shelved. When a resurgence in pinball brought Game Plan back to the market in 1984, the game was finally produced, though Trudeau had since moved to Gottlieb and taken his artwork with him. New art was created by Larry Blazek (playfield and plastics) and Tom Schmelzer (backglass), while Trudeau's playfield layout was retained.

On the playfield, the game offers two flippers, three pop bumpers, two slingshots, a pair of 3-bank drop targets, a captive ball, and a spinning target, running on Game Plan's MPU-2 board. The historical theme centers on the infamous Hun leader whose armies terrorized Europe in the fifth century.

With a confirmed production run of just 500 units from a small manufacturer that would leave the industry the following year, Attila the Hun is an uncommon machine, and its shelved-then-revived history makes it a genuine curiosity of the early-1980s pinball market.