Games Britannia
Season 1 • Episode 2: Monopolies and Mergers • Watch with subtitles
Episode 2: Monopolies and Mergers
December 14, 2009 • 59 min
Britain exported the moral instructional board game to America, where it was adapted to celebrate wealth and free enterprise in the best-selling game Monopoly. Cluedo, Scrabble, and Monopoly went on to become enduring British family favourites post-war. In the 1980s game development began turning toward fantasy role-playing and computer games.
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