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Parker Brothers

American toy and game manufacturer
Organization business Q1501379

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
business, board game publishing company, video game developer, video game publisher, brand[3][4][5][6]
Inception
1883[13]
Founder
George Swinnerton Parker[7]
Owned by
Hasbro[8]
Headquarters location
Salem, Beverly[9][10]
Country
United States[2]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
1998[14]
Has organizational division
Parker Brothers Music[11]
Has works in the collection
Anne Frank House[23]
Industry
game industry[12]
P14470
Companies/Parker_Brothers
Parent organization or unit
Hasbro[15]
Product or material produced
Monopoly, ouija, Cluedo, Top It, Sorry!, Aggravation, Probe[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
🏷️ Also known as
en Parker Bros. en Parker Brothers de Parker Bros. de Parker de PARKER BROTHERS fa برادران پارکر fr Parker Bros. fr Parker Brothers fr PARKER BROTHERS he האחים פארקר it Parker Bros. it Parker it PARKER BROTHERS ja ケナーパーカー ja パーカー・ブラザーズ ko 파커 브라더스 nl Parker nl Parker Brothers tr Parkers Brothers zh 帕克兄弟
🔖 Identifiers · 30
VIAF cluster ID
127814405
Library of Congress authority ID
n50074920
BoardGameGeek game publisher ID
28
C64-Wiki ID
Parker_Brothers
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Parker-Brothers
Fandom article ID
starwars:Parker_Brothers, gamicus:Parker_Brothers, video-games:Parker_Brothers, logos:Parker_Brothers
Freebase ID
/m/01l75f
GRY-Online company ID
3457
GameFAQs company ID
74818
Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)
3010-801
Google Arts & Culture entity ID
m01l75f
Internet Game Database company ID
parker-brothers
Show all 30 identifiers +18
LastDodo-area-ID
4886365, 508383
LaunchBox Games Database developer ID
902
LaunchBox Games Database publisher ID
154
Luding game publisher ID
19
MobyGames company ID
3135
MobyGames company ID (former scheme)
parker-brothers
NLA Trove people ID
1123195
OGDB company ID
3985
Quora topic ID
Parker-Brothers
Reddit topic ID
parker_brothers
SNESmusic.org company ID
256
TheGamesDB developer ID
6453
TheGamesDB publisher ID
156
Topic's main category
Category:Parker Brothers
UVL company ID
92
VGMPF ID
Parker_Brothers
Wikisimpsons article ID
69482
Yale LUX ID
group/47ed6707-7f62-41ca-b7a7-d6ca749c2c4b

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🔗 Connections
← Publisher 15
Risk, Hex, Trivial Pursuit, Boggle, Star Wars, Mille Bornes, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Pictionary +7 more
Instance of 4
business, brand, video game developer, video game publisher
Product or material produced 4
Monopoly, ouija, Cluedo, Sorry!
← Developer 4
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - Death Star Battle, Frogger II: ThreeeDeep!, Star Wars: Jedi Arena
Headquarters location 3
Salem, Beverly, SALEM
← Manufacturer 3
Monopoly, Mastermind, Merlin
Country 1
United States
Has works in the collection 1
Anne Frank House
Owned by 1
Hasbro
Owned entities 1
Nerf
Owns / has subsidiaries 1
Hasbro
Parent organization or unit 1
Hasbro
← Child organization or unit 1
Hasbro
← Creator 1
Pachisi
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Parker Brothers, founded in 1883, is a game industry organization headquartered in Salem. The company has produced a range of well-known games including Monopoly, ouija, Cluedo, Top It, Sorry!, and Aggravation.

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Operations

Headquarters locations include Salem[9], a city in the United States[24], in United States[25], founded in 1626[26] and Beverly[10], a city in the United States[27], in United States[28], founded in 1626[29].

Related Entities

brand business Hasbro Nerf SALEM United States video game developer

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . LastDodo. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 19
    Wikipedia languages → ['ca', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'id', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'nl', 'no', '
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 8w ago · Moebeus · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has organizational division → Parker Brothers Music
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has organizational division: Parker Brothers Music"
  3. 14w ago · J 1982 · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    VGMPF ID → Parker_Brothers
    Fandom article ID → starwars:Parker_Brothers, gamicus:Parker_Brothers, video-games:Parker_Brothers +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|3 */ Fandom article ID: logos:Parker_Brothers"
  4. 14w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Giant Bomb ID (former scheme) → 3010-801
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Giant Bomb ID (former scheme): Companies/Parker_Brothers"
  5. 14w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Companies/Parker_Brothers
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Companies/Parker_Brothers, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  6. 15w ago · J 1982 · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Giant Bomb ID (former scheme) → 3010-801
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Giant Bomb ID (former scheme): Companies/Parker_Brothers"
  7. 18w ago · J 1982 · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SNESmusic.org company ID → 256
    Luding game publisher id → —
    Country → —
    Giant bomb id (former scheme) → —
    + 81 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Fandom article ID: starwars:Parker_Brothers"
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