Great Sites for Games Researchers
Also see Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks on this site.
Associations
- Association of Game & Puzzle Collectors
- European Society of Game-Collectors / Europäische Spielesammler Gilde e. V.
- International Society for Board Game Studies
Game Databases, Wikis, etc.
- GameCatalog.org — this site!
- BoardGameGeek with over 40,000 games and gamer feedback
- The Games Board with a focus on British games from the Victorian and Edwardian eras (1750-1910)
- Luding
- vzw Vlaams Spellenarchief (in Dutch)
- Ken Tidwell's Game Cabinet
- SmorgasBoard of Games
- BoardGamesWiki, built on A Board Games Database (formerly Aardwolf Games)
- About.com's Games section
- Wikipedia's List of game manufacturers
Sites About One Publisher
- Ryan Brown's site with information on over 1000 Parker Bros. games
- 3M Games by Larry Arrigoni
- Spear's Games Archive
Sites About One Game
- Rook Cards by Coit Morrison
- Subbuteo by Peter Upton
- Tiddlywinks from Rick Tucker
Sites About a Topic or Theme
- Abstract Strategy Games
- Baseball Games from Butch7999 and friends
- Cycling Board Games from Anki Toner
Publisher Sites
Museums and Archives
- Spear's Games Archives, England
- Nuremberg Toy Museum / Museen der Stadt Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
- Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York
- V&A Museum of Childhood (formerly the Bethnal Green Museum), London
- Le Musée Suisse du Jeu, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
- Elliott Avedon Museum & Archive of Games, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- vzw Vlaams Spellenarchief, Brugge, Belgium
- Deutches Spiele Archiv, Marburg/Lahn, Germany
Also (coming soon), search web sites in the IGDB associated with publishers, games, and topics.