"The Picture Game" I’ll be honest: I have no idea where the Picture Game came from, when it originated, or pretty much anything else about its background. I assume it’s fairly recent — within the past couple of decades or so — due to the fact that built-in flash cameras meant for home usage didn’t exist until the late ‘50s. (The Brownie Starflash, released in 1957, was Kodak’s first camera with a built-in flash.) Even so, though, the elements at play in this particular game go way back. First, there’s the element of the camera: Spirit photography first emerged in the late 19th century; what ..read more