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Sports video games empower us to play as our favorite athletes, compete against our friends, and defeat our opponents with gravity-defying dunks, 90-yard touchdown sprints, and other fantastic feats most of us can only dream of.

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Over the last 200 years, board games have brought us together with delightful new forms of play that entertain, educate, and (occasionally) exasperate us.

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Whether blasting through math equations or enabling a hunt for crooks across the globe, these six game franchises combined education and entertainment to make learning subjects like algebra and geography fun.

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Imagine play without the ball. It’s impossible.

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Everyone knows the goal of Monopoly. Dominate industry, control property, maximize profit, and drive competitors to bankruptcy. But few realize that Monopoly evolved from an earlier ANTI-capitalist game.

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From the assembly line to the marketing department, women have shaped the game industry through hard work, creative coding, artistic imagination, and business savvy.

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Margaret’s passions for collecting and play laid the groundwork for what would become the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of historical materials related to play.

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Beginning in the late 1990s, the Cyprus-based Wargaming Group Limited established itself as a developer of military strategy games.

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Music sets the tone for video games.

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Video games first entered the home in the early 1970s as inventors, programmers, and designers developed new ways to play with a television.

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The history of Shindana—Swahili for “compete”—is a story of empowerment, civil rights, and community uplift.

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Imagination transports us to fabulous realms where aliens and monsters live to guide us or threaten us.

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