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Welcome to the Big Game Hunter Web Site!
To read the latest NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS and POSTINGS, click below:
News & Announcements
Here's what you'll find on this home page, besides the latest game and puzzle news (click on a topic to go directly there):
This website now has over 2200 photos of games and puzzles and the people who play them, collect them, make them, and sell them, plus historic photos of early game company factories and the products they produced; they can be found in the photo gallery of 16 different albums and sub-albums, including one that supports the "All in the Game" newsletter. There is also a detailed listing of a dozen special game and puzzle journals and websites, and over 140 links to great sites in the games and puzzles world.
Also on this site are three permanent games articles, and the All in the Game newsletter filled with additional articles, news and timely information.
Purpose
The Big Game Hunter site is designed to serve a number of purposes. In no particular order, here is what it proposes to do:
- Provide information, including photographs and articles, on the development of the game industry in the United States, including histories of game companies and the products they produced.
- Introduce information about new game products, through posted "Announcements" and an online newsletter, and to provide playability ratings and capsule reviews, and in-depth analysis of special games.
- Share information about new puzzles--both mechanical puzzles and jigsaw puzzles--as well as provide illustrations and text about classic and collectible puzzles.
- Furnish news about the game industry, its companies, products, and inventors.
- Offer a forum for both players and collectors to tout their favorite games (and puzzles), old and new, and discuss issues related to games, game playing, and game development.
- Provide resource information, including an annotated list of other periodicals and sites for games and puzzles.
- Examine the links between American games and games of other cultures, and to introduce classic games played around the world, and new games just released in other countries.
- Promote interest in games and puzzles within the private, corporate, or government sector, to encourage the establishment of (or the funding for) a game museum in the United States, as there is no such museum in the entire country.
- Introduce game manufacturers and independent developers in the game industry to The Big Game Hunter. I am always anxious to talk with companies about the possibilities of my doing game development, or writing final instructions or advertising copy, plus working as a consultant in the areas of "fine tuning" game products, playtesting, research, and marketing.
I welcome your comments and suggestions as to how to make this a better site.
Who is "The Big Game Hunter"?
The Big Game Hunter is Bruce Whitehill, one of the foremost historians on American games, and author of the book, Games: American Games and Their Makers, 1822-1992, which has been touted as the most authoritative work on the history of American game companies. He has served as the senior editor of Games Annual and the associate editor of the international magazine, Games Games Games, and his writing has appeared in encyclopedias and in international journals, as well as in cultural and collector magazines throughout the U.S. and Europe. He has been featured nationally in magazines and on radio and television, and he has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal and in a college textbook on marketing. He is an advisor to the scholarly international journal, Board Game Studies, published by the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Bruce Whitehill is the founder of the Association of Game & Puzzle Collectors, an international organization aimed at recording and preserving the history of games and puzzles.
Mr. Whitehill has worked as a game inventor since his two-year stint with Milton Bradley Co. starting in 1982, and as an independent game developer and consultant to the Toy and Game industry since then.
As a collector, The Big Game Hunter has amassed a collection that represents the cultural history of American games, and he has had major game exhibitions at museums around the U.S.; his goal is to find the resources to allow him to open a Museum of American Games.
... more about Bruce Whitehill: his biography and resume
What You Will Find on This Site
Here's what you'll find on this home page, besides the latest game and puzzle news:
- Our Purpose
- Who is “The Big Game Hunter”?
- Why log in?
- Forum & Inquiries
- Questions about games or puzzles, buying and selling
- Posting Information, News Items, or your Calendar of Events
- Comments, Questions, or Problems with/about this site
- Finding out what your game/puzzle is worth
- More than 100 great links to other game and puzzle sites
This website, which is updated at least once a month, now has over 2200 photos of games and puzzles, and the people who play them, collect them, make them, and sell them, plus historic photos of early game company factories and the products they produced; they can be found in the photo gallery of 16 different albums and sub-albums, including one that supports the "All in the Game" newsletter.
There is also a detailed listing of a dozen special game and puzzle journals and websites, and over 125 links to great sites in the games and puzzles world.
Also on this site are three permanent games articles, and the All in the Game newsletter filled with additional articles, news and timely information.
Why Log In?It is not necessary to log into The Big Game Hunter site, since you can navigate throughout the site without a login. However, if you wish to comment about an article or participate in a forum or survey, your response or comments will be shown as "anonymous" unless you create an account and log in using your web name or real name.
Do You Have a Question? A News Item? A Problem?If you have a question that possibly could be answered by one of our readers, please go to "Inquiries & Forum" in the Main Menu on the left, or click here: Inquiries. Select the appropriate forum in which to post your question; click on it, and then click on "Post a New Topic" on the upper right side, and you will be taken to a box into which you can type your inquiry. Under "Subject," be succinct--use words totaling under 17 characters and spaces that will give the reader the best idea of what your inquiry is about.
At Forum / Inquiries you may post any questions about products or events connected to games or puzzles, including information about items you are looking to buy or sell, or about which you are trying to get more information. Keep your question, offer, or "sales pitch" short, and use only up to three key words in the title of your posting. We cannot be responsible for the accuracy of any answers you might receive through the Forum.
If you have information that may be of interest to other readers (and does not require a response), you can post that on the website by going to "Submit News" in the Main Menu on the left, or click here: News. Events and calendar listings should be posted here.
If you have a problem or a question or comment about this site, or a question specifically about or for The Big Game Hunter, then go to "Email Us" in the Main Menu at the left, or click here: Email.
What's It Worth?We will not respond to inquiries asking what a game is worth, or how rare a game might be. However, you can submit your inquiry through the Readers' Forum (click on "Inquiries & Forum" in the Main Menu at the left), and if your inquiry is posted (editor's discretion), other readers might respond. If you are looking for an appraisal, an appraisal service is available for a fee; appraisals can be for an individual game or puzzle, or for an entire collection for insurance purposes or other legal requirements; contact us if you want more information.
Hot Links!Check out our 144+ links to other great sites by clicking on "Web Links" in the Main Menu at the left. Links are divided into nine different categories:
- Game Companies;
- Games & Puzzles Research & History • Collecting;
- Game Playing • Reviews • Magazines, Newsletters;
- For Sale: New Games & Puzzles--Shops, Mail Order;
- For Sale: Collectible Games--Shops/Dealers/Mail Order;
- Jigsaw Puzzles--Hand Cut & Custom Made;
- Mechanical Puzzles;
- Miscellaneous, and non-game, non-puzzle sites; and
- Links submitted by companies touting their products and services or offering games to play online.
Game & Puzzle Topics
No matter what you're searching for in the arena of games and puzzles, THE BIG GAME HUNTER site should have something about it somewhere:
- board games, game boards
- card games
- skill & action games, dexterity games
- bagatelle games
- television (TV) games, educational games
- ethnic games, cartoon and comic character games
- western games, political games
- German games, English games, French games, Indian games
- old games, antique games, vintage games, classic games
- modern games, new games, games to play, playable games
- boxed games
- gameboards, dice, pawns, playing pieces, spinners
- game rules, game instructions, game parts
- jigsaw puzzles, jigsaws, sliced object puzzles
- mechanical puzzles, dexterity puzzles
- game exhibits, game books, game magazines
- game repair, repairing paper games, cleaning paper games
- cutting jigsaw puzzles, hand cut jigsaws
- games to buy, games for sale, games forum
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