Also see Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks on this site.
See also Books and Journal Articles about Games on this site.
Associations and Groups
- The Association for Games & Puzzles International (AGPI)
- European Society of Game-Collectors / Europäische Spielesammler Gilde e. V. (ESG)
- International Society for Board Game Studies (BGS)
- The Games Board
- Game Cultures Society (Facebook) (archived website)
- Game Science Research Center (Game.Sci.Re.Center) • YouTube
Game Databases, Wikis, Sites, etc.
- GameCatalog.org — this site!
- BoardGameGeek with gamer feedback ➤ (note that certain other sites use the BGG API to deliver the same content)
- The Big Game Hunter from Bruce Whitehill
- The Games Board and its GARD database, with a predominant focus on British games from the Victorian and Edwardian eras (1750-1910)
- Traditional Games from James Masters
- Luding (in both German and English)
- LastDodo — with over 13,000 games, based in the Netherlands (in English, Dutch, French, and German) ➤ since July 2020; Catawiki was a predecessor
- Spiele-Check (in German)
- Historisch Overzicht Nederlandse GezelschapsSpellen (HONGS – Historical Overview of Dutch Games) ➤ offline as of October 2019; incorporated into Luding as of May 2021.
- vzw Vlaams Spellenarchief (in Dutch)
- Ken Tidwell’s Game Cabinet
- Wikipedia’s List of game manufacturers
- Bradspel (in Swedish)
- La Tana dei Goblin (in Italian)
- JeuxSoc from François Haffner (in French)
- WorthPoint.com — includes a very large number of games (and other items) from auction houses and past eBay auctions
Sites About One Publisher
- 3M Games by Larry Arrigoni
- Avalon Hill from Grognard
- Ed-U-Cards Manufacturing by Donald Dell Milne at Roadtrip – ’62
- Hasbro history on their site
- John Jaques & Son, London
- Mattel history on their site
- McLoughlin Bros. at the American Antiquarian Society
- Parker Brothers, by George Swinnerton Parker
- Spear’s Games Archive (archived)
- Spear Games in the German Games Archive, Nuremberg Municipal Museums, at Google Arts and Culture
Sites About One Game
- Backgammon craze in the U.S. starting in the 1930s, by Albert Steg at the New England Backgammon Club
- Camelot, by Parker Brothers, from the World Camelot Federation and Michael Wortley Nolan (now operated by Dave Thomen)
- Checkers, from the Online Museum of Checkers History, edited by Jay Hinnershitz, Liam Stephens, and Ken Lovell
- Landlord’s Game and Monopoly by Thomas Forsyth
- Monopoly, at Wikia
- Rook Cards by Coit Morrison
- Scrabble, by Selchow & Righter, from Donald Sauter
- Subbuteo by Peter Upton
- Table Tennis from the International Table Tennis Federation
- Tiddlywinks from Rick Tucker
- Uno from Workavator and in the National Toy Hall of Fame
Sites About a Topic or Theme or Category of Games
- Abstract Strategy Games
- Alice in Wonderland games from Rob Stone (archived)
- Automobile games from Pagerolau in France (and Google translation to English)
- Bagatelle from James Masters
- Baseball Games website and online forums from Butch, Kerm, and Win
- Bookie and bookmaking games (archived)
- Cricket table games (archived)
- Cycling board games from Anki Toner
- (International) Football board games by Paul Woolzey
- Giochi dell’Oca e di percorso (Goose and route games) by Luigi Ciompi & Adrian Seville (in Italian and English)
- Horseracing games (archived)
- Letter-by letter word games, originally compiled by Steffan O’Sullivan and now maintained by Graham Toal
- Pinball games at the Internet Pinball Database
- Playing cards and card games
- Political games by Tony Nardo, plus an archived site
- Positional games by James J. Bond
- Space games (French) (plus Google’s translation into English)
- War games by David Stewart-Patterson
- War games from Grognard
- War games (naval) in the U.S. Navy Department Library
Trade Catalogs
- Trade catalogs at The Strong Museum of Play, with a broad and deep range of catalogs, from the 1800s to around 1960. Hundreds of the earlier catalogs (or photocopies of them) were donated to The Strong by the AGPI.
- Parker Brothers catalogs on the AGPI website
- McLoughlin Brothers catalogs at the American Antiquarian Society
- Early McLoughlin Bros. catalogs at Princeton’s Cotsen Library
- Trade catalogs from the Antique Toy Collectors of America
- Trade catalogs at Old Wood Toys, from 1918 to the 1950s
- Trade catalogs at the Parry Game Preserve, mostly from the 1980s and later
Additional trade catalogs from 1888 from Milton Bradley, McLoughlin Bros., Selchow & Righter, and others have been scanned by the AGPI but are not yet online. Contact us for further information.
Museums and Archives
Belgium
- vzw Vlaams Spellenarchief, Brugge, Belgium
Canada
- Elliott Avedon Virtual Museum Games, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (archived)
Germany
- Deutsches Spiele Archiv (German Game Archive), Marburg/Lahn, Germany
- Deutsches Spiele Archiv (German Game Archive), at Google Arts and Culture
- Museum Digital (17 museums), Berlin, Germany • including Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Ethnologisches Museum, and others.
- Nuremberg Toy Museum (in English) / Speilzeugmuseum, Museen der Stadt Nürnberg (in German), Nuremberg, Germany
Netherlands
- Rijks Museum, (in English) / Rijks Museum (in Dutch), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Switzerland
- Le Musée Suisse du Jeu (Swiss Museum of Games), La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
United Kingdom
- The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, England • includes a substantial number of mostly British games from the Richard Ballam collection, which are part of the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
- Young V&A (formerly the V&A Museum of Childhood, and before that, the Bethnal Green Museum), London, England
- Spear’s Games Archives, England (archived) • includes games made by J. W. Spear & Son; the over 1500 games originally in this archive were donated in 2017 to Deutsches Spielearchiv Nürnberg in Nuremberg, Germany
United States
- The Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York • has an extensive collection of games of all sorts
- The Strong National Museum of Play, at Google Arts & Culture • has an extensive collection of games of all sorts
- The Liman Collection, New-York Historical Society, New York, New York (archived) • includes over 200 mostly U.S. games from the 19th century and early 20th century
- National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. • includes mostly U.S. games relating to U.S. history and politics
- The Lilly Library (in their Content tab), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
- The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan
- The Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • includes games obtained by Stewart Culin from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago
- Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts • their collection includes a variety of early Parker Brothers games, though information about them doesn’t appear to be online