The Interactive Museum of Gaming and Puzzlery (IMOGAP) was founded in 2010 just outside of Portland, Oregon in King City. Playing games is older than writing. The Interactive Museum of Gaming and Puzzlery seeks to reach a hand across every social, economic, and cultural boundary to engage other humans in structured play.

IMOGAP has one of the largest, publicly accessible game collections in the world. Dozens of game types and themes are available to be played by museum visitors; including, tabletop, cards & dice, collectible cards, miniatures, role-playing, collaborative, city building, diplomacy and negotiation, wargames, sports, dexterity, trivia, puzzles, digital and mixed media.

They are continuously bringing in new games to its library; providing actual playing access to specialty games that would not otherwise be available to the average gamer. The library collection contains physical items as old as 1885, reproductions going back 5,000 years, and out-of-print, pop culture rarities.

The museum seeks to preserve actual copies of unique games from recent periods of history before they are lost to the coming age of digital games. Notable additions to the collection include: Zomax, “the world’s greatest game;” Halma, an 1885 precursor to chinese checkers; Touring, a 1930’s precursor to Mille Bornes; Hearts, a 1914 letter cube game; and Nintendo Game and Watch. Included in the museum is one of the first handheld video games from 1982- Pinball.

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