Name: 生命遊戲的黑暗起源。 (The Dark Origins of the Game of Life)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:06:43.000Z
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- [Narrator] Without Abraham Lincoln, and really his beard,

Milton Bradley, the godfather of board games

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Bold statement, I know, but let me explain.

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

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

Following the Republican National Convention of 1860,

Bradley printed thousands of images of Abraham Lincoln

Shortly thereafter, Lincoln debuted his iconic beard,

rendering all of Bradley's prints worthless.

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

There was a spinner, colored circles that moved

The squares on the original game were overwhelmingly grim,

Regardless, the game flew off the shelves.

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,

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