Our Story
Our Company
Building Brands with the World’s Smallest Sports Games
The Famous Games Company was founded in 2010 to leverage the extraordinary opportunities we saw in our unique line of remarkably small card games. We launched our website and began taking on our first clients in 2012. Our Famous Games are designed to the highest standards of quality and will make an excellent addition to your next big marketing or promotional campaign. Compelling, fun and designed to be shared, the World’s Smallest Sports Games are the perfect size for wherever life may take you.
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Our Vision
The Power of Small
Here at the Famous Games Company, we achieve some very big things by being small. Our World’s Smallest Sports Games each consist of only nine playing cards and a simple rulesheet. Each game is about the size of a pack of chewing gum yet delivers all the thrill and engagement of a packed stadium or big-screen TV. Our games are easy to learn, fun to play, and capture the essence of the sports they depict. Thanks to their size, our games can go places that bigger games can only dream of – airplanes, glove boxes, goodie bags, vending machines, DVD cases, cereal boxes, trade shows, stadium seats, cases of beer, magazines, greeting cards, and more. That versatility helps us go the extra mile to meet the needs of our clients.
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Our Founder
Thinking Small, Living Large
The Famous Games Company and its games are the brainchild of poet, playwright, adventurer and entrepreneur, Rob Bartel. Whether he’s designing our World’s Smallest Sports Games, teaching theatre in Australia, or studying pre-Colombian ruins in Mexico, Bartel believes that everything worth doing is worth doing well.
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