Guess What Board Game is 80 Years Old

What's your favorite token? Are you a shoe player? The Scottie dog? Race car? I'm a top hat kind of guy, personally. And we want to wish a happy 80th birthday to..........(I know, the suspense is killing you)....Monopoly! Yep, one of the greatest of board games ever was born on March 19, 1935, when Parker Brothers bought the rights to the game. You may not know, but Monopoly is based on the real-life streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey. And long before the internet and video games, it was a great way to spend hours and hours---remember how long one game could take?

I'm not sure what U.S. marketers are doing for the occasion, but I do know that France released 80 games with real money in them to mark the event. That comes to somewhere in the $23,000 U.S. range.

Long live the little dude with the monocle!      DB