U.S. Games Systems - Revision history

Occultwiki at 17:49, 14 November 2024

2024-11-14T17:49:38Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:49, 14 November 2024
Line 1:		Line 1:
	'''U.S. Games Systems, Inc.''' is a publisher of playing cards, [[Tarot]] cards, and games located in Stamford, Connecticut. It has published hundreds of different card sets, and about 20 new titles are released annually. The company's product line includes children's card games, museum products, educational cards, motivational cards, tarot cards, and other fortune telling card decks. These are marketed through a network of retailers, including bookstores, museum gift shops, metaphysical shops, greeting card stores; toy and game stores; hobby shops, and mail order catalogs.		'''U.S. Games Systems, Inc.''' is a publisher of playing cards, [[Tarot]] cards, and games located in Stamford, Connecticut. It has published hundreds of different card sets, and about 20 new titles are released annually. The company's product line includes children's card games, museum products, educational cards, motivational cards, tarot cards, and other fortune telling card decks. These are marketed through a network of retailers, including bookstores, museum gift shops, [[metaphysics\|metaphysical]] shops, greeting card stores; toy and game stores; hobby shops, and mail order catalogs.

	The company is also known for its commitment to novel interpretations of the tarot, featuring new artwork in a variety of styles and formats. The company's logo is a silhouette of [[The Fool]] tarot card, taken from the drawing by Pamela Colman Smith for the Rider-Waite Tarot.		The company is also known for its commitment to novel interpretations of the tarot, featuring new artwork in a variety of styles and formats. The company's logo is a silhouette of [[The Fool]] tarot card, taken from the drawing by Pamela Colman Smith for the Rider-Waite Tarot.

Occultwiki at 01:24, 25 October 2022

2022-10-25T01:24:46Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 01:24, 25 October 2022
Line 12:		Line 12:

	Other tarot sets published by U.S. Games include a traditional [[Tarot of Marseilles]], two [[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]] decks, an Oswald Wirth tarot, and the [[Thoth Tarot]] designed by [[Aleister Crowley]] and drawn by Lady Frieda Harris. Some of the best known of these are the hippie-influenced Aquarian tarot, the borderless Morgan-Greer tarot, the circular Motherpeace tarot, and the Tarot of the Witches by Fergus Hall, which was featured in the James Bond movie ''Live and Let Die''.		Other tarot sets published by U.S. Games include a traditional [[Tarot of Marseilles]], two [[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]] decks, an Oswald Wirth tarot, and the [[Thoth Tarot]] designed by [[Aleister Crowley]] and drawn by Lady Frieda Harris. Some of the best known of these are the hippie-influenced Aquarian tarot, the borderless Morgan-Greer tarot, the circular Motherpeace tarot, and the Tarot of the Witches by Fergus Hall, which was featured in the James Bond movie ''Live and Let Die''.

			==External links==
			* [https://www.usgamesinc.com/ Official website]

	[[Category:Publishing Companies]]		[[Category:Publishing Companies]]

Occultwiki: Created page with "'''U.S. Games Systems, Inc.''' is a publisher of playing cards, Tarot cards, and games located in Stamford, Connecticut. It has published hundreds of different card sets,..."

2022-10-25T01:23:06Z

Created page with "'''U.S. Games Systems, Inc.''' is a publisher of playing cards, Tarot cards, and games located in Stamford, Connecticut. It has published hundreds of different card sets,..."

New page

'''U.S. Games Systems, Inc.''' is a publisher of playing cards, [[Tarot]] cards, and games located in Stamford, Connecticut. It has published hundreds of different card sets, and about 20 new titles are released annually. The company's product line includes children's card games, museum products, educational cards, motivational cards, tarot cards, and other fortune telling card decks. These are marketed through a network of retailers, including bookstores, museum gift shops, metaphysical shops, greeting card stores; toy and game stores; hobby shops, and mail order catalogs.

The company is also known for its commitment to novel interpretations of the tarot, featuring new artwork in a variety of styles and formats. The company's logo is a silhouette of [[The Fool]] tarot card, taken from the drawing by Pamela Colman Smith for the Rider-Waite Tarot.

==History==
U.S. Games Systems was founded in 1968 by Stuart R. Kaplan. The company started as a U.S. distributor of European tarot decks. The tarot decks sold well in bookstores and Kaplan decided to begin publishing tarot decks himself. In 1971, the company acquired the rights to publish the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck. The deck was extremely popular and served as the basis for the company's early success.

In the 1970s, the company branched out into publishing books about the history of tarot. Stuart Kaplan co-wrote with Jean Huets the four-volume Encyclopedia of Tarot, which was published over the course of two decades.

==Published Tarot decks==
In 2009, U.S. Games published a commemorative Rider-Waite box set including [[Pamela Colman Smith]]'s tarot cards, a selection of her art prints, and a short book about her, written by Kaplan. Kaplan's interest in Pamela Colman Smith's work as a theatrical set designer and costumer, her involvement with the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], and her collaboration with the noted occultist [[Arthur Edward Waite]] on the Rider-Waite deck, led him to research and co-write the biography ''Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story'' with Mary Katherine Greer, Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, and Melinda Boyd Parsons.

Other tarot sets published by U.S. Games include a traditional [[Tarot of Marseilles]], two [[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]] decks, an Oswald Wirth tarot, and the [[Thoth Tarot]] designed by [[Aleister Crowley]] and drawn by Lady Frieda Harris. Some of the best known of these are the hippie-influenced Aquarian tarot, the borderless Morgan-Greer tarot, the circular Motherpeace tarot, and the Tarot of the Witches by Fergus Hall, which was featured in the James Bond movie ''Live and Let Die''.

[[Category:Publishing Companies]]