Games Britannia season 1 episode 2

Air Date: 2009-12-14

Duration: 59 min

Genre: Documentary

Monopolies and Mergers

Britain exported the moral instructional board game to America, where it was adapted to celebrate wealth and free enterprise in the best-selling game Monopoly. Cluedo, Scrabble, and Monopoly went on to become enduring British family favourites post-war. In the 1980s game development began turning toward fantasy role-playing and computer games.