Tom McGuire; Marketed Pictionary Game

Tom McGuire, 62, president of the Games Gang, which he created to market the board game Pictionary. A native of New York, McGuire made his career in the toy industry. When introduced to the game Pictionary in 1986, he was so impressed that he quit his job with the company that handles Trivial Pursuit and created the Games Gang. Pictionary, a charades game in which players draw clues with pencil and paper, was invented by a Seattle waiter, Rob Angel. More than 20 million games have been sold by Games Gang in the last five years. On Wednesday in Santa Ana of a cerebral hemorrhage.