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Parker Brothers (known by Parker outside of North America) was an American toy and game manufacturer which in 1991 became a brand of Hasbro. More than 1,800 games were published under the Parker Brothers name since 1883. [1] It remained family owned until bought in 1968, and branched into nerf toys and media.
Landslide, a board game for 2–4 players published by Parker Brothers in 1971, uses the mechanics of the United States Electoral College to simulate an American presidential election. The objective of the game is to obtain as many electoral votes as possible by bidding with "currency" representing each player's share of the popular vote.
In the August 1971 edition of Scientific American, Martin Gardner examines the mathematics and strategies of gomuku, "sold in the U.S. by Parker Brothers under the name Pegity." [ 8 ] References
The game was reissued as "Camelot" in 1930, with reduced size and number of pieces. It flourished through numerous editions and variants, achieving its greatest popularity in the 1930s, and remained in print through the late 1960s. Parker Brothers briefly republished the game in the 1980s under the name Inside Moves. Since then it has been out ...
A version of the game was created for the BBC Micro home computer by Ben Finn (who would go on to co-write Sibelius) and submitted in the 'design a game' competition on ITV's The Saturday Show. As joint winner of the competition, the game was officially licensed from Waddingtons and published (along with fellow winner Gambit by the Oliver Twins ...
The game consists of players taking turns rolling dice to move around the game board. Each player starts with $100 of in-game money. The object of the game is to be the first player to win $1,000 of in-game money. Events giving players a chance to win money can happen when a player lands on a space, draws cards, or rolls doubles.
Players (from two to six) set their own victory conditions before the game begins, the total of which must be sixty or one hundred (the higher total is recommended when only two people are playing). So for example in a regular multi-player game a player can set a goal of 20 hearts of happiness, 20 stars of fame, and 20 thousand dollars of ...
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