About
Team Pinball is the trading name of JOR Games Limited, a pinball design studio founded in Cardiff, Wales, in 2016 by Janos Kiss, Otília Pasaréti, and Romain Fontaine — the company name combines their initials. All three had worked together at the nearby manufacturer Heighway Pinball. Their debut machine, The Mafia, revealed in July 2018, is a single-level, EM-style game with a 1920s/30s gangster theme, built on the studio's own hardware and software and capped at a run of 100 units.
Since that run, Team Pinball has worked mainly as a design and engineering partner to other manufacturers. Janos Kiss wrote the game code for Pedretti Gaming's Funhouse: Rudy's Nightmare upgrade kit, and the studio went on to contribute coding, animation, and circuit board work to Pedretti's Whirlwind: Total Chaos. Romain Fontaine has served as electronics engineer on Hexa Pinball's Space Hunt since 2022, and the studio handled playfield design and prototype assembly for Pinball Adventures' Punny Factory. The company remains active, now registered in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
