Marvin Glass and Associates (MGA) was a toy design and engineering firm based in Chicago. Marvin Glass (1914–1974) and his employees created some of the...
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Tapper (video game) (category BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games)
as Root Beer Tapper, is an arcade video game developed by Marvin Glass and Associates and released in 1984 by Bally Midway. Tapper puts the player in...
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Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots is a two-player action toy and game designed by Marvin Glass and Associates and was first manufactured by the Marx toy company in...
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Mouse Trap (board game) (category Roll-and-move board games)
concept was first invented by Marvin Glass and designer Gordon Barlow from Marvin's company, Marvin Glass and Associates, who were later granted a US patent...
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Burck while he worked for Marvin Glass and Associates. Burck built the first inchworm using his clothes-dryer's hose and tested it with his then-three-year-old...
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Marvin Glass at Marvin Glass and Associates. With the closure of Marvin Glass and Associates, in 1988, Morrison and his partners Jeffrey Breslow and Roben...
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memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison, working for toy design firm Marvin Glass and Associates, with software programming by Lenny...
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published in 1970 by the Milton Bradley Company, and was invented by Joseph M. Burck of Marvin Glass and Associates. The board represents a haunted house with...
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Jeffrey Breslow of Marvin Glass and Associates and originally published in 1970 by Parker Brothers, and then published again in 1976 and 1996. The game is...
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Doug Henning (section Death and legacy)
Henning's: Wonder Whims" were made by Panosh Place and copyrighted by Marvin Glass and Associates.[citation needed] There were a total of six Wonder Whim...
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Ants in the Pants is a game designed by Marvin Glass and Associates, who sold the rights to William H. Schaper, and was originally produced in 1969 by Schaper's...
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zone simultaneously. Gnip Gnop was designed and named by Joseph M. Burck of Marvin Glass and Associates for Parker Brothers. It was originally released...
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Jacob Burck (section Personal life and death)
in death by his wife (1975) and survived by children Joseph M. Burck (senior designer at Marvin Glass and Associates) and Conrad Burck, an art dealer...
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Lite-Brite (category Art and craft toys)
by Burt Meyer, Dalia Verbickas, and Joseph M. Burck at Chicago toy and game design company Marvin Glass and Associates, which licensed the invention to...
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in the early seventies by designer Allison Katzman at Marvin Glass and Associates and bought and produced in the United States in 1972 by the now-defunct...
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adventure game for the TRS-80 Haunted House, a 1962 board game by Marvin Glass and Associates Which Witch? (board game) or Haunted House, a 1970 board game...
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Kitty O'Neil (section Racing and stunt career)
(640 km/h). Needham's sponsor, toy company Marvin Glass and Associates, was preparing a Hal Needham action figure and obtained an injunction to stop further...
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Company. The game was designed by Marvin Glass and Associates and created by Hank Kramer, Larry Reiner and Walter Moe, and is now distributed by Mattel. It...
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Joseph M. Burck (1931–2020), senior designer and toy inventor at Marvin Glass and Associates This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the...
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Evel Knievel (section Jumps and records)
1972 and 1977, Ideal Toy Company released a series of Evel Knievel-related merchandise, designed initially by Joseph M. Burck of Marvin Glass and Associates...
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Domino Man (category Multiplayer and single-player video games)
Domino Man, a bespectacled, balding man, wearing a beat-up turtleneck sweater and sporting a mustache, who attempts to set up a number of giant dominoes across...
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Irwin Toy (section Brands and Toys distributed)
(with Marvin Glass and Associates) 1964 Irwin Toy Pedal Motorcycle 1960s Lazer Doodle Lil Makin Faces IToys LCD Handheld & Deluxe Games. ME2 My One and Only...
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"Microcomputer controlled game", published 1980-06-10, assigned to Marvin Glass and Associates "Simon Turns 30". 1up.com. Archived from the original on October...
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States Toy Industry Association. National Toy Hall of Fame List of toys and children's media awards Martin, Douglas (2006-06-06). "Bernard Loomis, 82...
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in 1983. Rock band Journey had enjoyed major success in the early 1980s, and Bally/Midway decided to ride this wave of popularity by creating an arcade...
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Tangled Tales 1989 Origin Systems Origin Systems Tapper 1983 Marvin Glass and Associates Bally Midway Task Force 1942 1992 MicroProse MicroProse Tass...
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his career, Yoe was senior designer at Marvin Glass and Associates, where he worked on Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little Pony toys. Recruited by Jim Henson...
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Timber (video game) (category Multiplayer and single-player video games)
also designed Tapper, and both games have a similar audio/visual style. The player assumes the role of a lumberjack in the game and must chop down a given...
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Apple II. The Apple II had a large user base and was a popular game development platform in the 1970s and 1980s. There is a separate list of Apple IIGS...
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Popcorn Sutton (redirect from Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton)
Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton (October 5, 1946 – March 16, 2009) was an American Appalachian moonshiner and bootlegger. Born in Maggie Valley, North Carolina...
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