Qui-gon
02-07-2006, 03:25 AM
10619
Ok, so I was lisning to my local radio station and it was break time so they were talking about Monopoly (Mon-op-ol-e or Mon-o-poll-e) and they said that it's Monopoly's birthday today! They said it was first sold in stores on this day in 1935 so I thought that I should post it on the VMKF, so I did some research and found this: The official history of Monopoly from Hasbro!
It was 1934, the height of the Depression, when Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania, showed what he called the MONOPOLY game to the executives at Parker Brothers. Can you believe it, they rejected the game due to "52 design errors"! But Mr. Darrow wasn't daunted. Like many other Americans, he was unemployed at the time, and the game's exciting promise of fame and fortune inspired him to produce it on his own.
With help from a friend who was a printer, Mr. Darrow sold 5,000 handmade sets of the game to a Philadelphia department store. People loved it! But as demand grew, he couldn't keep up with all the orders and came back to talk to Parker Brothers again. The rest, as they say, is history! In its first year, 1935, the MONOPOLY game was the best-selling game in America. And over its 65-year history, an estimated 500 million people have played!
Over 200 million games have been sold worldwide.
More than five billion little green houses have been "built" since 1935.
A set made by Alfred Dunhill, with gold houses and silver hotels, sold for $25,000.
The longest game in history lasted 70 straight days.
The longest game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours!
The MONOPOLY game is so much a part of today's popular culture that lawyers have trademarked many of its graphic elements. The tokens, Railroad, COMMUNITY CHEST, CHANCE, and Title Deed designs, as well as BOARDWALK and all four gameboard corners are legally protected.
Now there is hundreds of different Monopolys like Lord of the Rings Monopoly, Star Wars Monopoly, Iraq Monopoly and lots of others! And Monopoly isn't just a game it's educational. It teaches kids how to count, add, take away, and divide money, manage property (in a way) and it's just a fun game, so go ahead, play a game!
Oh and :party-smi Happy Birthday Monopoly!:party-smi
~Q/S
Ok, so I was lisning to my local radio station and it was break time so they were talking about Monopoly (Mon-op-ol-e or Mon-o-poll-e) and they said that it's Monopoly's birthday today! They said it was first sold in stores on this day in 1935 so I thought that I should post it on the VMKF, so I did some research and found this: The official history of Monopoly from Hasbro!
It was 1934, the height of the Depression, when Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania, showed what he called the MONOPOLY game to the executives at Parker Brothers. Can you believe it, they rejected the game due to "52 design errors"! But Mr. Darrow wasn't daunted. Like many other Americans, he was unemployed at the time, and the game's exciting promise of fame and fortune inspired him to produce it on his own.
With help from a friend who was a printer, Mr. Darrow sold 5,000 handmade sets of the game to a Philadelphia department store. People loved it! But as demand grew, he couldn't keep up with all the orders and came back to talk to Parker Brothers again. The rest, as they say, is history! In its first year, 1935, the MONOPOLY game was the best-selling game in America. And over its 65-year history, an estimated 500 million people have played!
Over 200 million games have been sold worldwide.
More than five billion little green houses have been "built" since 1935.
A set made by Alfred Dunhill, with gold houses and silver hotels, sold for $25,000.
The longest game in history lasted 70 straight days.
The longest game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours!
The MONOPOLY game is so much a part of today's popular culture that lawyers have trademarked many of its graphic elements. The tokens, Railroad, COMMUNITY CHEST, CHANCE, and Title Deed designs, as well as BOARDWALK and all four gameboard corners are legally protected.
Now there is hundreds of different Monopolys like Lord of the Rings Monopoly, Star Wars Monopoly, Iraq Monopoly and lots of others! And Monopoly isn't just a game it's educational. It teaches kids how to count, add, take away, and divide money, manage property (in a way) and it's just a fun game, so go ahead, play a game!
Oh and :party-smi Happy Birthday Monopoly!:party-smi
~Q/S