Brian R. Eddy is an American game designer and programmer, best known for designing Attack From Mars pinball for Midway and programming FunHouse and, with Larry DeMar, The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot. While at Williams Electronics / Midway Games, he also designed Medieval Madness,^[1] and programmed Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure.^[2]

After the closure of Midway's pinball division in 1999, Eddy moved to Midway's video game division, where he worked on Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, and several games in the Mortal Kombat franchise.^[3] Currently, Eddy is the President and Chief Creative Officer of Spooky Cool Labs,^[4] a game design firm founded by former Williams programmer Larry DeMar.

When pinball designer Steve Ritchie was asked about the design similarities between his Spider-Man pinball machine and Eddy's Attack From Mars, Ritchie admitted that he had designed Spider-Man's playfield as an homage to Eddy, and specifically to Attack From Mars.^[5]

Games

Pinball

• Diner (1990) (Effects)
• Bad Cats (1990) (Effects)
• Pool Sharks (1990) (Software)
• FunHouse (1990) (effects)
• The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot (1991) (software)
• Black Rose (1992) (software)
• Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure (1993) (concept, software)
• The Shadow (1994) (design, software)
• Attack From Mars (1995) (design, concept)
• Medieval Madness (1997) (design, concept)
• Stranger Things (2019) (design, concept)
• The Mandalorian (2021) (design, concept)
• Venom (2023) (design, concept)

Video games

• Arctic Thunder (2001) (project lead)
• Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (2004) (project & design lead)
• Stranglehold (2007) (director)