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Human beings have always enjoyed toys and games, finding increasingly creative ways to entertain ourselves. From the latest video games to board games and all the toys you could possibly imagine (and then some), you’ll find them all here, and at the BEST PRICE online.  Toys and games that add huge entertainment and educational value for you and your family are available here – GO HERE TO SEE –

Would you like to build precious memories and strengthen family bonds? Consider Family Game Night!  Or expand your horizons and build your network of friends with an adult game night. Twosomes can enjoy the classic checkers and chess games. Foursomes get together for bridge and canasta. Board games accommodate most any number of players. New games are being developed all the time, and you’ll find them here on this site. Don’t overlook puzzles or games of strategy and mind games. And if you need more togetherness and fun, there’s always Twister!

More about games

Toys and games can entertain a child for hours, but they also provide the catalyst for family bonding in fun. We get enough multi-media and electronic stimulation. Why not take a break – and enjoy a good old game or three?

Battleship?  Connect Four?  Chutes and Ladders?  Monopoly?

Pictionary?  Clue? Toys and games are about enjoying life, and connecting with a classic game is probably needed now more than ever in today’s digital world.  Personal, face-to-face interaction is a great thing, and games can facilitate.  For the best–and at the best price available for quick (same day or two day – at no extra costs) delivery right to your home–GO HERE.

Are you planning a camping trip? Once your camp is secure and you’re relaxing in the wild, play a game that gets you talking, laughing, and enjoying good company in a stress-free and entertaining fashion.

For those of us afraid of getting BORED, there ares always board games, where we can touch and watch the game unfold.  SORRY?  (Are you really – NO… you are happy to send their marble back home!)

 

Toys and Games in History

Historical evidence suggests that as soon as human beings take care of their survival needs, they begin to look for ways to entertain themselves. Some of the earliest game pieces, much like dice, were found in the 5,000-year-old Başur Höyük burial mound in southeast Turkey. Similar pieces have been found in Syria and Iraq and seem to point to board games originating in the Fertile Crescent.

Other early origin dice games were created by painting a single side of flat sticks. These sticks would be tossed in unison and the amount showing on the painted sides, would be your “roll.” Mesopotamian dice were made from a variation of materials, including carved knuckle bones, wood, painted stones, and turtle shells.

Board games show up as early as 3100BC in ancient Egypt. The game of Senet has been found in predynastic and First Dynasty burials. Senet is featured in several illustrations from Ancient Egyptian tombs by the time of the New Kingdom in Egypt (1550–1077 BC) and it had become a kind of talisman for the journey of the dead.

 

Games often evolve from an educational impetus, as witness The Landlord’s Game. What? You’ve never heard of The Landlord’s Game? Invented by Lizzie Magie, one of America’s very first board game designers, the game board consisted of a square track and with a row of properties around the outside that players could buy. The game board had four railroads, two utilities, a jail, and a corner named “Labor Upon Mother Earth Produces Wages,” which earned players $100 each time they passed it… Sound familiar?

Magie invented and patented The Landlord’s Game in 1904, designing it to be a practical demonstration of land grabbing, with all its usual outcomes and consequences. She based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed by Henry George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and also impoverish tenants. Magie hoped that when played by children, the game would provoke their natural suspicion of unfairness, and that they might carry this awareness into adulthood.

In 1935 Magie sold her patent for The Landlords Game to Parker Brothers for $500. This game, now known as Monopoly, launched Parker Brothers to a massive success. After their success with Monopoly, they went on to produce Risk and Sorry, Trivial Pursuit, and more.

Current Game History

Board games are enjoying an exponential rise in popularity thanks to TableTop, started out in 2013 as a show on the Geek & Sundry Youtube Channel and quickly became its most popular series. The original concept for Tabletop, created by Wil Wheaton (yes, of StarTrek fame) and Felicia Day, was that Wheaton (who’s an avid board gamer) would review board games. However, Wil Wheaton proposed that the best way to show how great games are is to play them–and he did it with popular TV and web personalities

TableTop has become a resonating force in the gaming community. They focus on introducing gaming to new people that still have a misguided view of board gaming. A lot of people still think only of Monopoly and Risk when they think of board games. TableTop’s popularity has started to shift this. The show caused board games featured to skyrocket in sales.

Reference: diceygoblin.com/blog/the-full-history-of-board-games/

Video Games

A large majority of today’s gamers also enjoy video games because of the way we like to interact. You’ll find we have an entire section devoted to VIDEO GAMES. Sometimes it’s just best to see them all in one huge Library so you can also find one that slipped past your friends. This site has the largest library (and at the best prices) of video games around.

In conclusion, it is really about the fun toys provide for both children and adults.  Games and toys are what we are about here, and we always get you access to the best price and best toys because we believe games bring people together.

TOYS

Furthermore, there are toys that sports fanatics are also going to love. Take my Uncle Jerry, for example. He would never get himself a pair of these babies, but Uncle Cowboy Fanatic Jerry will be loving me forever for this gift.  Customers that shop this site will also have access to all TEAMS and all LIKES and MAKES and BRANDS.

Also while you are at it check out anything you can think of especially relevant items branded in the team of your choice.

With toys and games suitable for every age, you can shop for everyone on your lists for any occasion.  The large variety here will impress even the finicky buyer, not to mention the ease of making all purchases right here.

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