The player is the hapless hobbyhorse of blind chance.
And your success was measured solely in dollars.īut here’s what’s really twisted about it: Life doesn’t reward cleverness or hard work. The automobile was the center of your world.
You picked a career and stuck with it forever. The new Game tells us a lot about the way Americans viewed life back in that Leave It to Beaver era. The modern game was introduced in 1960, on the hundredth anniversary of Bradley’s original. However, his version was a lot different than the Life we now know.
The Game of Life was the one big hit of Civil War era printer-turned-game-designer Milton Bradley. This board game is meant to encompass the full range of human experience, from birth to death, from marriage to inheriting a skunk farm.