Powerpoint report on early games

1. Authors card game first appeared in 1861. Every
manufacturer produced a version. Children and adults
learned the names of works by major authors.

2. 1879 word-building set by McLoughlin Brothers.

3. A simple card game from Noyes, Snow & Co. teaching
proverbs, from about 1880.

4. Ca. 1900
wood puzzle
marked for
the counties
in New York
State.

5. McLoughlin Brothers
produced this question-
and-answer game
around 1890.

6. Parker Brothers’ 1895 Bible Game featured questions and
answers.

7. Who could object
to The Shakespeare
Game, produced
by Parker Brothers
in 1903.

8. Two more McLoughlin Brothers Bible-themed card games.

9. Card games with a Charles Dickens theme and Old Testament
questions.

10. In 1890 McLoughlin Brothers
produced the games Pilgrim’s
Progress, Going to Sunday
School, and Tower of Babel.
These all came in a slipcase
disguised as a harmless pair of
books.

11. 1872 catalog for
vendors, telling how
proper games keep
children home and off
the streets, and offered
wholesome
amusement. Bradley’s
Checkered Game of Life
was an example that
helped remove the
negative associations of
gaming.

12. 1920 boxed version of
Bradley’s Checkered
Game of Life, marked
as “The First Game
Invented and
Manufactured by Mr.
Milton Bradley, Played
for Over Fifty Years.”