Garry Kitchen

Garry Kitchen (born August 18, 1955) is a video game designer, programmer, and executive best known for his work at Activision during the early years of the company's history.

Before his video game career, Kitchen developed electronic toys at Wickstead Design Associates, in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey.

After Wildfire, in 1982, Kitchen co-invented the handheld electronic game Bank Shot,[5] a pool simulation also distributed by Parker Brothers.

In 1995, Kitchen and his longtime business partner David Crane founded Skyworks Technologies, an early internet game company which created Candystand.com and pioneered the category of online advergames.

[citation needed] The AddictingGames Mobile App was nominated for a 2012 Webby Award in the category of Games (Handheld Devices).