# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-ritchie
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:46:06.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-ritchie"
name: "Steve Ritchie"
slug: "steve-ritchie"
description: "Steven Scott Ritchie is an American pinball and video game designer. His career began in the 1970s. Ritchie holds the record for best-selling pinball designer in history. He has been called \"The Master of Flow\" due to the emphasis in his designs on ball speed, loops, and long smooth shots. Ritchie was also the original voice of Shao Kahn in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series, serving as the announcer of Mortal Kombat II (1993), Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), and the updates to Mortal Kombat 3. He is the older brother of fellow pinball designer Mark Ritchie."
tagline: "American pinball designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_ritchie.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-02-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.83
  momentum:             15.40933435348125
  historical:           6.897956
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7260da0d-462d-4bb9-9722-fd3c926493b7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "ستيف ريتشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ritchie_(pinball_designer)"
    title: "Steve Ritchie (pinball designer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A9%D5%AB%D5%BE%D5%A5%D5%B6_%D5%8C%D5%AB%D5%B9%D5%AB"
    title: "Սթիվեն Ռիչի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ritchie"
    title: "Steve Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ritchie"
    title: "Steve Ritchie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B2%E8%92%82%E5%A4%AB%C2%B7%E9%87%8C%E5%A5%87"
    title: "史蒂夫·里奇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7613755"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2403603"
    title: "Steve Ritchie"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump