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George Gomez is an industrial designer, video game designer, and pinball designer who has worked for Bally, WMS Industries, and Stern Pinball, among other companies. He has designed or contributed to several notable games, including Tron (1982), NBA Fastbreak (1997 ), and Monster Bash (1998).
Gomez began his career in game design at Bally Midway in 1978. He worked on the team that created the Tron video game, and headed the team that created Spy Hunter. In 1984, after the 1983 video game crash, he left Midway to invent toys at the consulting firm Marvin Glass & Associates.
Gomez is the inventor of numerous toys, including Tonka's "Splash Darts" and Galoob's "Crash-N-Bash".
After Glass, Gomez worked on projects through the contract manufacturer Grand products, including the Battletech Centers and several Sega, Jaleco and Taito coin op video games of the late '80s. In 1993 he became a designer at Williams Electronics and designed several notable pinball machines including Monster Bash and was one of the lead developers of the Pinball 2000 system.
After Williams closed their pinball division, Gomez re-joined Midway Games heading Xbox and PlayStation game development teams. Gomez was one of key designers of the street basketball video game series NBA Ballers. While at Midway he became a consultant designer to Stern Pinball; during this time he designed several games, including The Lord of the Rings, Batman the Dark Knight, Playboy and The Sopranos. In July, 2011 he joined Stern Pinball as EVP/ Chief Creative Officer, responsible for all of the company's product development efforts. He was inaugurated into the amusement industry hall of fame in 2025.
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