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103 Cards in this Set
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The Royal Game of Ur
3000 BCE Unknown Board game Mesopotamia or Modern Iraq |
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Senet
3000 BCE Unknown Board game Ancient Egypt |
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Backgammon
3000 BCE Unknown Board game Ancient Persia or Modern Iran |
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Mancala
600 CE Unknown Board game Africa |
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Go
2000 BCE Unknown Board game China |
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Checkers
1500 CE Unknown Board game Egypt |
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Chess
600 CE Unknown Board game India |
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Snakes and Ladders
1500 CE Unknown Board game India |
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Olympics
776 BC Unknown Sport Ancient Greece |
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Soccer
1848 Unknown Sport England |
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American Football
1862 Walter Camp Sport USA |
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Baseball
1800 Alexander Joy Cartwright Sport USA |
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Basketball
1891 James Naismith Sport USA |
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Tennis
1100 Unknown Sport France |
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Golf
1400 Unknown Sport Scotland |
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Adventure
1975 Will Crowther PDP-10 USA |
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Zork
1977 Infocom PDP-10 USA |
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King's Quest
1984 Roberta Williams PC USA |
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Monkey Island
1990 LucasArts PC USA |
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Adventure
1979 Warren Robinett Atari 2600 USA |
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Myst
1993 Robin and Rand Miller PC USA |
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Walking Dead
2012 Telltale Games PC USA |
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Space War
1962 Steve Russell & Martin Gaertz PDP-1 USA |
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Dodonpachi
1997 Cave Games Arcade Japan |
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Pong
1972 Al Alcorn Arcade USA |
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Space Invaders
1978 Tomohiro Nishikado Arcade Japan |
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Pacman
1980 Toru Iwatani Arcade Japan |
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Super Mario
1985 Shigeru Miyamoto NES Japan |
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Megaman
1987 Keiji Inafune NES Japan |
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Gears of War
2006 Cliff Bleszenski Xbox 360 USA |
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Poker
1800 Unknown Table USA |
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Contract Bridge
1925 Harold Vanderbilt Table USA |
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Monopoly
1905 Elizabeth Magie Board Game USA |
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Hex
1942 Piet Hein Board game Denmark |
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Scrabble
1933 Alfred Butts Board game USA |
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Diplomacy
1958 Allan Calhamer Board game USA |
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Magic: The Gathering
1993 Richard Garfield Table USA |
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Settlers of Catan
1995 Klaus Teuber Board game Germany |
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Boxing
1743 Jack Broughton Sport England |
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Kyokushin Karate
1950 Masutatsu ‘Mas’ Oyama Sport Japan |
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Street Fighter
1987 Capcom Arcade Japan |
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Tekken
1994 Namco Arcade Japan |
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Bushido Blade
1997 Light Weight Playstation Japan |
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Super Smash Bros.
1999 Masahiro Sakurai Nintendo 64 Japan |
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Mortal Kombat
1992 Midway Games Arcade USA |
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Marvel Versus Capcom
1998 Capcom Arcade Japan |
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The Legend of Zelda
1986 Shigeru Miyamoto NES Japan |
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Metroid
1986 Gunpei Yokoi NES Japan |
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Grand Theft Auto
1997 Rockstar Games Playstation Scotland |
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Uncharted
2009 Naughty Dog PS3 USA |
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Tomb Raider
1996 Core Design Sega Saturn England |
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Metal Gear
1987 Hideo Kojima MSX2 Japan |
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Shadow of Colossus
2005 Fumito Ueda PS2 Japan |
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Battlezone
1980 Ed Rotberg Arcade USA |
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Doom
1993 John Romero PC USA |
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Half-Life
1998 Valve PC USA |
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Counter-Strike
1999 Minh Le PC Canada |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
2007 Infinity Ward Xbox 360 USA |
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Halo
2001 Bungie Xbox USA |
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Portal
2007 Valve PC USA |
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Kriegspiel
1812 Gearge Leopold von Reiswitz Board game Prussia |
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M.U.L.E.
1983 Ozark Softscape Atari 400 USA |
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Civilization
1991 Sid Meier PC USA |
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X-COM: UFO Defense
1993 Microprose PC England |
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Final Fantasy Tactics
1997 Square Playstation Japan |
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Advance Wars
2001 Intelligent Systems GBA Japan |
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Dune 2
1992 Brett Sperry PC USA |
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StarCraft
1998 Blizzard PC USA |
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League of Legends
2009 Riot PC USA |
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Dungeons and Dragons
1974 Gary Gygax Table USA |
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Wizardry
1981 Sirtech Software Apple II USA |
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Dragon Quest
1986 Yuji Horii NES Japan |
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NetHack
1987 Mike Stephenson PC USA |
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Ultima
1981 Richard Garriot PC USA |
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Final Fantasy
1997 Hironobu Sakaguchi Playstation Japan |
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Fallout
1997 Interplay PC USA |
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World of Warcraft
2004 Blizzard PC USA |
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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
2011 Bethesda Game Studios Xbox 360, PS3, Windows USA |
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Dope Wars
1984 John Dell PC USA |
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Microsoft Flight Simulator
1980 subLOGIC Apple II, TRS-80 USA |
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Balance of Power
1985 Chris Crawford PC USA |
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SimCity
1989 Will Wright PC USA |
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The Sims
2000 Will Wright PC USA |
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Madden NFL
1988 EA Tiburon PC USA |
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Gran Turismo
2001 Polyphony Digital PS2 Japan |
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Bejeweled
2001 PopCap Games PC USA |
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Tetris
1984 Alexey Pajitnov PC Soviet Union |
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Wii Sports
2006 Nintendo Japan Wii |
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Rock Band
2007 Harmonix Xbox 360, PS3, Wii USA |
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Solitaire
1990 Unknown PC USA |
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FarmVille
2009 Zynga USA |
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Angry Birds
2009 Rovio iOS Finland |
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PaRappa the Rapper
1996 Masaya Matsuura Playstation Japan |
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Cave Story
2004 Daisuke Amaya PC Japan |
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Seiklus
2003 Cly5m PC USA |
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Passage
2007 Jason Rohrer PC USA |
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Braid
2008 Jonathan Blow Xbox 360 USA |
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Flywrench
2007 Mark Essen PC USA |
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JS Joust
2011 Copenhagen Game Collective PS3 Denmark |
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Minecraft
2009 Markus Persson PC Sweden |
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QWOP
2008 Bennett Foddy Flash UK |
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Journey
2012 thatgamecompany PS3 USA |
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Howling Dogs
2012 Porpentine Twine USA |
