“It’s just an electronic toy, officer.”

Adventures in Toy Design: Part 3

Garry Kitchen
UX Collective
Published in
5 min readDec 1, 2020

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Picture of an open briefcase holding the electronics of a toy prototype, and closeup of a remote control with a fire button

In the 1970’s, Bill Dorhmann had arguably one of the most fun corporate jobs in the world. Bill was the Vice President of Research and Development for Parker Brothers, of Monopoly fame, and one of the most successful toy companies in the work. In the late 1970’s, in my days of developing handheld electronic toys, I had the pleasure of…

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Garry Kitchen is a retro video game designer whose titles include Donkey Kong (2600), Keystone Kapers, GameMaker (1985) and Bart (Simpson) vs the Space Mutants.