
In 1995, Kitchen and his longtime business partner David Crane founded Skyworks Technologies, an early internet game company which created and pioneered the category of online advergames. Kitchen was president and CEO of Absolute Entertainment from 1986 to 1995. Patent #4,346,982 "Electronic Pool Game", for Bank Shot. Bank Shot was named one of the Ten Best Toys of 1980 by OMNI magazine. After Wildfire, in 1982, Kitchen co-invented the handheld electronic game Bank Shot, a pool simulation also distributed by Parker Brothers. In 1979, Kitchen was an engineer on Wildfire, a handheld electronic game distributed by Parker Brothers. Before his video game career, Kitchen developed electronic toys at Wickstead Design Associates, in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey. in Electrical Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey in 1980. He also wrote Garry Kitchen's GameMaker and The Designer's Pencil for the Commodore 64. His other 2600 work includes Keystone Kapers and Pressure Cooker for Activision and Space Jockey for U.S. His port of Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 was a major hit for Coleco, selling over 4 million copies. Garry Kitchen (born August 18, 1955, in Washington, D.C., United States) is a video game designer, programmer, and executive best known for developing games for the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, as well as co-founding Absolute Entertainment with ex-Activision developers. Co-founder of Absolute Entertainment and Skyworks Interactive
