The company was founded in 1919 by Harry Percy Gibson when he received an unsecured loan of 500 pounds from the Royal Bank of Scotland in Bishopsgate, London.

Source:[2] ICC continued to trade during the First World War and was eventually sold to De La Rue in 1919.

The Big Four were a mainstay of H. P. Gibson & Sons' board games line-up, and by 1939, the company ranked alongside industry leaders such as Waddingtons, Spears, and Chad Valley.

Fresh premises were found and the company re-established trading from Barrett Street in London's West End.

In 1949, new ranges were introduced, including paddling pools, kites, beach toys, and croquet, to maintain business throughout the year.

These products gave representatives a reason to meet sports shop owners, helping the company secure new clients in a booming and consistently strong sector.

In the early 1970s, with the company facing the prospect of losing wholesale business as their clients began to sell directly to consumers, Michael Gibson suggested that previously discontinued games from Waddingtons could potentially be profitable if they were to be relaunched.

Within a decade, Michael got rid of the summer range of paddling pools and formalised the evolution of the company by shortening the name to Gibsons Games, taking on the familiar brand identity.

In the late 1980s Gibsons Games released their first jigsaw puzzles, with images of aerial photographs of Britain and familiar landmarks.

In 2019, Gibsons celebrated its 100th anniversary by relaunching a limited edition version of L'Attaque, one of the business's first games.