Gee Bee

Gee Bee may refer to:

Gee Bee (video game)

Gee Bee (ジービー, Jī Bī) is Namco's first internally designed arcade game, released in 1978, and licensed to Gremlin Industries for US manufacture and distribution. It was designed by Tōru Iwatani, who later went on to create Pac-Man, and Libble Rabble. When it was released in the United States by Gremlin Industries, they replaced the "NAMCO" lettering on the light-up bumpers with their distinctive "G" logo.

This is a combination of a pinball-style game with that of a ball-and-paddle game where the player bounces a ball into blocks. The goal of the game is to keep the ball from falling off the bottom of the screen for as long as possible and get the high score. Two "replays" (extra credits) will also be awarded at preset point values, depending on how the cabinet is set.

There were two sequels, Bomb Bee and Cutie Q, which were also designed by Iwatani and released in the following year. The second of these was also the first game from Namco to award an extra life at a preset point value, instead of a credit.

Gee Bee (store)

Gee Bee Department Stores was a chain of discount department stores, mostly throughout western Pennsylvania. It closed in the early 1990s.

History

The chain began as "Glosser Brothers" in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1906 when the Glosser brothers opened a small one-room shop in the Franklin Building. It branched out into a full-service, upscale department store carrying the company's name by the end of the decade.

Glosser Brothers, or "Glosser's" for short, branched out in the 1960s with the opening of the suburban Gee Bee discount stores. Later in the 1970s, Gee Bee opened Gee Bee, Jr., a scaled-down concept of its full-sized discount stores, with the inventory concentrated on discount clothing and accessories. Some of the chain's larger locations also operated a co-branded supermarket co-located with the department store, but in a very separate location from it.

Most of the stores, including the original, which retained the full Glosser name, remained open into the early 1990s. The chain operated 23 stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia at its peak in the 1980s.