If you're looking for a good Trivial Pursuit question: What's the only non-patented board game since 1935 to outsell Monopoly in a given year? The answer, of course, is Trivial Pursuit, which sold an amazing 20 million copies in 1981.
Parker Bros., now a part of Hasbro, rolls out its 70th Anniversary Edition next month at New York's Toy Fair, with an art deco design to celebrate its reign as America's No. Monopoly has been keeping America board silly since the Great Depression, selling more than 200 million editions around the world, thanks in part to permutations such as Elvis-opoly, Simpsons-opoly, among other stylized versions of the game. Monopoly.'Īnd now, it's time for the mustachioed mascot of money to don his famous tuxedo, take a ride on the Reading Railroad, advance to 'Go' and collect immortality. 11, 2005 — - Before Donald Trump's whipped hairdo, before Bill Gates' geeky glasses - even before Howard Hughes' obsessive hand-scrubbing - the image of America's consummate capitalist belonged to Rich Uncle Pennybags, better known today as 'Mr.
