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The Game Makers, a book by Philip Orbanes, chronicles the history of Parker Brothers; Parker Brothers on the History Channel; The story of Parker's early games; New York Historical Society owns many examples of Parker Bros. games, such as: The Good Old Game of Corner Grocery, 1887; Chivalry: The Greatest Modern Board Game of Skill.
The company continued to grow throughout the next several decades, producing such lasting games as Clue, Risk, and Sorry!. [7] The Clue murder mystery game was based on the house in Peterborough, New Hampshire, that George Parker and his wife Grace lived in. [8] Parker died in Boston [9] and was buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem.
The game was a commercial success, becoming one of the year's two best-selling video games of 1982 for Parker Brothers, along with Frogger. In 1982, it was reported that both games had sold a combined 3 million cartridges. [3] Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back received mixed reviews. It was reviewed in Video magazine shortly after its release ...
The original Wallie Dorr edition was a small red box with 100 cards. They updated the game to a side-by-side wider box which Parker Bros used for their first edition of the game after they purchased it. Periodically the Parker Bros. Co. adjusted the card art and subsequently, the images became more modern, and increased the mileage cards.
Waterworks is a card game created by Parker Brothers in 1972, named for the space Water Works in the game Monopoly. The game pieces consist of: a deck of 110 pipe cards, a bathtub-shaped card tray, and 10 small metal wrenches. The object is for each player to create a pipeline of a designated length that begins with a valve and ends with a spout.
The game's success was cited as a contributing factor in Hasbro's 46% increase in net income after the fourth quarter of 1992. [7] Parker Brothers later released a smaller travel version of the game. [8] The game served as the inspiration for a series of 1990s works by German artist Martin Kippenberger.
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Stop Thief is an American-originated electronic board game published by Parker Brothers.It was released in 1979. [1] [2] In 2016, Restoration Games announced that they were bringing back a restored version of the game, using a free smartphone companion app in place of the electronic device.