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  • - [Narrator] Without Abraham Lincoln, and really his beard,

  • Milton Bradley, the godfather of board games

  • would have never existed.

  • Bold statement, I know, but let me explain.

  • (upbeat music)

  • The Game of Life.

  • The spinner, the cars, the choices,

  • college or career, kids or no kids, lawyer or farmer.

  • This family game night staple was once a pretty morbid game.

  • Back in the 1800s, Milton Bradley was

  • in the lithograph business.

  • Following the Republican National Convention of 1860,

  • Bradley printed thousands of images of Abraham Lincoln

  • who was clean-shaven at the time.

  • Shortly thereafter, Lincoln debuted his iconic beard,

  • rendering all of Bradley's prints worthless.

  • His lithograph business went belly up.

  • So, Bradley was forced to try something new.

  • He came up with a board game, a seemingly dark

  • and twisted board game, appropriately named

  • The Checkered Game of Life.

  • The game functioned in a similar way to how it does now.

  • There was a spinner, colored circles that moved

  • around the board, and of course squares

  • that could either make you or break you.

  • The squares on the original game were overwhelmingly grim,

  • boasting actions like disgrace, poverty,

  • ruin, crime, prison, and well, suicide.

  • Regardless, the game flew off the shelves.

  • Kids loved it and Milton Bradley went on

  • to own family game night.

  • Fast forward to about a hundred years later.

  • They revamped the game, trading Bradley's morbid squares

  • for the more delightful ones like payday, or graduation,

  • which we have all come to know and love.

  • And so there you have it, the story of the game called Life.

  • Thanks, Lincoln.

  • (bright music)

- [Narrator] Without Abraham Lincoln, and really his beard,

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生命遊戲的黑暗起源。 (The Dark Origins of the Game of Life)

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    許大善 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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