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Michael Gray (game designer)

Michael Gray (game designer)

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Michael Gray is an American game designer from rural Massachusetts[1] known for his board game designs for Milton Bradley. He eventually became the Senior Director of Global Concept Acquisition for Hasbro's games division.[2][3] Game reviewer Tom Vasel has called him "the wisest man in all of board gaming."[1]

Gray is credited as the designer of over 25 board games or game items[4] including two of the most popular board game for young teenage girls, Mall Madness[5] and Electronic Dream Phone.[6] Games that Gray has designed or co-designed include:

  • 1975 Dungeon!, credited as a co-designer as he worked on a version of this game[2]
  • 1980 Fantasy Forest, a TSR game with artwork by Larry Elmore
  • 1986 Shogun, also known as Samurai Swords or Ikusa (1987 Charles S. Roberts Best Pre-World War II board game nominee)
  • 1986 Fortress America (1986 Charles S. Roberts Best Twentieth Century game winner)
  • 1992 Omega Virus, an electronic talking board game
  • 1993 13 Dead End Drive, a MiltonBradley game

References

  1. [1]
    "Welcome Mike to Restoration, You Will". Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  2. [2]
    "The Big Game Hunter". Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  3. [3]
    Tinsman, Brian (2008). "Chapter 6: Interview With A Publisher". The Game Inventor's Guidebook: How to Invent and Sell Board Games, Card Games, Role-Playing Games, & Everything in Between.
  4. [4]
    "Michael Gray: boardgamegeek.com designer entry". Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  5. [5]
    "Board game:Electronic Mall Madness: The Shopping Spree Game that Talks - Milton Bradley Company". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  6. [6]
    Great Big Story (2015-12-21), The Godfather of Tween Board Games, retrieved 2019-04-19


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