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Tristan Donovan I played a lot of board games as a kid, my family would usually get out Monopoly, Game of Life or similar after Sunday dinner so I guess the roots of …moreI played a lot of board games as a kid, my family would usually get out Monopoly, Game of Life or similar after Sunday dinner so I guess the roots of the book lie in that.

The other inspiration was that my first book was a history of video games and so also writing a book about the history of board games felt like a natural choice.(less)

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According to a Wall Street Journal review, you claim in your latest book that Jefferson played backgammon while writing the Constitution. That is impossible since Jefferson was not ever at the Constitutional Convention, he was ambassador to France at the time. He wrote the Declaration but had no role in composing the Constitution. Will you correct your error in future editions? Or, did the Journal misinterpret you?

Tristan Donovan Hi Thomas,

Thank you for alerting me to this. I've rechecked my sources and it's error of mine as it was while writing the Declaration of Independence …moreHi Thomas,

Thank you for alerting me to this. I've rechecked my sources and it's error of mine as it was while writing the Declaration of Independence that he played backgammon, not the constitution.

This will be corrected in reprints and future print editions of the book, and should be fixed in the ebook editions in the near future. Thanks again for pointing this out.

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	Replay: The History of Video Games 4.04 avg rating — 1,490 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan 3.96 avg rating — 1,026 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World 3.90 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Feral Cities: Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle 4.05 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Nintendo’s standards were exacting. “In terms of game testing they revolutionised the concept,” said Milgrom. “They said zero defects – we will not allow you to release a game that has any bugs in it whatsoever. Now zero defects was an unheard of concept in any other software or on any other gaming platform. Nintendo knew if they were going to sell it in the supermarkets and sell it to mums and dads it had to work off the shelf and had to be flawless. They didn’t want returns. We had to change our programming attitude and the way we developed games, which was brilliant. It was really hard work. If you had a bug in your final version you could miss Christmas because it would take a month for them to go through the testing of the title.”
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