[5][6] Sheats began his career in 1993 at Data East where he worked on the game and dot matrix display programming for The Last Action Hero (1993), Guns N' Roses (1994), and The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard (1994).
Sheats had certain special modes hidden in a few of the games that he programmed documented in "Cheat Sheet" pages on Reddit.
Shortly after being hired by Stern, Sheats teamed up with fellow ex-Williams employee Steve Ritchie to work on a series of blockbuster games such as Spider-Man (2007)[13] and AC/DC (2012, 2018).
[1] Sheats also reunited with George Gomez to create the Batman: The Dark Knight game produced by Stern Pinball in 2008.
In later years, Sheats worked with the team that updated the rule sets for The Walking Dead (2014)[14] and Batman '66 (2016)[15][16] games that were produced by Stern Pinball.
In 2021, Sheats, along with Josh Sharpe, partnered with Chicago Gaming Company to develop new software for the remake of Cactus Canyon.