![]() ![]() As you may have guessed by its absence from your family room, it never caught on. ![]() The game was called Toward Soviet America. (Credit: Underwood Archives / Getty Images). ![]() Board games were a popular form of entertainment in Depression-era America. the United Soviet States of America.Ĭhildren playing a board game at the Vacation Playground 189 in Brooklyn in the early to mid-1930s. Ultimately, their actions will turn the U.S.A. ![]() The players’ goal is to get rid of the rich and powerful, end oppression, and seize the means of production. Instead of celebrating capitalism, it aimed to destroy it. One board game from the early 1930s was Monopoly’s diametrical opposite. (See also Strange Maps # 1078.) Like Monopoly, but the exact opposite One of the most popular games of the decade was Monopoly - no doubt precisely because it allowed players to imagine themselves getting rich and powerful. With millions of Americans out of pocket due to the Great Depression, board games were one of the cheapest forms of entertainment. The 1930s were the golden age of board games.
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