Livecast With Bruce Whitehill And Bob Finn From AGPI (Assoc Of Games And Puzzles Intnl) #agpi
17Links:
AGPI: http://www.gamesandpuzzles.org/index.php
Bruce's Game Design Page: http://www.thebiggamehunter.com
Bruce Whitehill is considered the world’s foremost authority on American game companies. As a historian, he has written extensively on American games and the products and people that defined the industry. His book, "Games: American Games and Their Makers, 1822-1992," (now out of print but available from the author), is the most authoritative work on the history of American games and game companies ever published
His pseudonym, “The Big Game Hunter,” came in the early 1980s as he began to amass his collection of mostly pre-WWII American games, bagging games for himself and “hunting” them for others on request.
Mr. Whitehill had the largest diversified collection of antique American games in the world – over 400 U.S. companies represented from 1843 to 2000. More than 6000 of these games were sold to the Ludothèque de Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris, and his extensive collection of American advertising games and premiums were donated to the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
Besides being a game collector and historian, Bruce Whitehill has been a game inventor for over 35 years.
While working as a full-time game developer for Milton Bradley, he invented:
Centipede
Championship Baseball
Fraggle Rock
“Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” game
Snoopy Card Game
Bruce has also worked for Mattel and Pressman games. He currently is an independent game designer.
Mr. Whitehill is the founder and past president of the Association for Games & Puzzle International, and has served on its board of directors for over 30 years; the organization is committed to the collection and preservation of games, jigsaw puzzles, and mechanical puzzles, and to the research on the people and companies that invented, designed, manufactured, and/or distributed them. Mr. Whitehill spent over two years as editor of the newsletter for game collectors and researchers, "Game Times," and has been a major contributor to the organization's current journal, "The AGPI Quarterly."
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Bob Finn has been collecting board games since the mid-1960s. His areas of collecting includes two player abstract board games and European strategy games from the 1970s & 1980s.
Bob's game collection contains 1600+ games. He also collects mechanical puzzles and wooden jigsaw puzzles.
Bob is the web developer for the AGPI (Association for Games and Puzzles International). The website contains 35 years of periodical produced by the Association. In addition, the website contains the AGPI Archives Games Catalog Database. The database contains information about 18,000 games. Many of the games were manufactured prior to 1950.
Bob's user name on Board Game Geek is Games. His user id on eBay is Games. #boardgame As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases