Flatiron Flyer.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: Colorado Cool Stuff

Fueled by all sorts of creative juices (beer being one of them), Bud Leonard and Michael Deragisch invented a game at a 1978 Boulder party, when the duo chucked a foam disc around Deragisch's pad. "We set up a nine-hole course in his one-bedroom apartment, and went refrigerator to light switch, light switch to TV, and so on," recalled Leonard. While "a lousy marketing scheme" foiled their first attempt at commercialization, Deragisch and Leonard re-launched the Flatiron Flyer late last year, in the form of a kit with discs, hole and...