History of Games
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Games in Painting

• Paintings of Chess
• Brueghel's Children's Games
• Nefertari Playing Senet

Games in Fiction and Movies

• The Flanders Panel, Arturo Perez-Reverte (filmed as Uncovered); centered around a retrograde chess problem
• The Luneburg Variation, Paolo Maurensig, 1997; another deadly game of chess.
• The Defence, Vladimir Nabokov, 1930 (filmed as Luzhin's Defence); contains a chess puzzle
• The Royal Game, Stefan Zweig, 1944; the best chess novella?
• Geri's Game, Pixar Studios; chess seems a popular topic.
• Fermat's Room, 2009, a horror film on the importance of puzzles.
• Wargames, 1983; one of the first films on computer games; and still one of the most exciting
• Tron, 1982; the first film on computer games? Anyway, one of the best.
• Movies including checkers scenes: The Stranger, 1946 (Orson Welles) and Our Man in Havana, 1959 (Carol Reed). Both spy movies.

Senet and Egypt

• Senet (wikipedia)
• Nefertari Playing Senet
• games in egypt
• In Search of the Meaning of Senet, Peter A. Piccione

Medieval Chess

• Rules and a puzzle (assuming you know modern chess)
• Lewis Chessmen (used in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

Faro

• Faro (wikipedia)
• Wichita Faro (play Faro online)

Pokemon Trading Card Game

• Official Pokemon Trading Card Game web-site

Game of Life

• Milton Bradley's 1866 patent
• The Meaning of Life (Jill Lepori)
• Checkered Game of Life, simplified rules
• Checkered Game of Life at BoardGameGeek
• Game of Life (wikipedia)
• Game of Life, modern rules

Other Games

• Five Field Kono
• History of Chess

Game Stores in Chicago

• Cat & Mouse Games, board games, card games, puzzles
• Marbles: The Brain Store, puzzles and games

New Technologies and old Games

• Rubik's Touch Cube, modern technology and old game gone wrong (thanks Tim)
• D&D on Microsoft Surface, another example of technology misunderstanding games