Marble (toy) Martin Frederick Christensen—also of Akron, Ohio—made the first machine-made glass marbles on his patented machine. His company, The M. F. Christensen & Son Co., manufactured millions of toy and industrial glass marbles until they ceased operations in 1917. The next US company to enter the glass marble market was Akro Agate. This company was started by Akronites in 1911, but located in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Today, there are only two American-based toy marble manufacturers: Jabo Vitro in Reno, Ohio, and Marble King, in Paden City, West Virginia. In Australia, games were played with marbles of different sizes. The smallest and
Lose Your Marbles board. In addition, a match of five will send marbles to the opposing player's board. The game in hard mode has a tactic after the player wins 6 games to change its skill and win every single other game. This cause the player to literally lose their marbles. Due to its simplistic controls, "Lose Your Marbles" can be played with two players with one keyboard. Lose Your Marbles also features a LAN multiplayer mode to connect 2 players over a local network. SEGA boldly claimed "More addictive than Tetris or your money back!" This was not a gimmick - SegaSoft