The second instalment in games britanica is central to board games and how they have effected each other.It starts off with Monopoly, which was made in America yet the original game board was set in the Britain. This is due to the game that it was influenced by called Landlords which worked with a similar setting. Monopoly is unique because its game board relates to a location and the desigenrs keyed into this and made regional game boards based on different countries. This is part of the major success of monopoly as it could be played worldwide with the same set of rules and a different game board which felt special and personal to players world wide.
The great depression greatly influence the next generation of board games, with more family themed games appearing. Games like scrabble became very popular and have remained so until this day.
In today’s market, board games have a lot more competition, in the form of digital games, and other table top gaming formats. However they are still holding their own, many games such as monopoly have converted to the digital age and you can see gams of them being made and played all the time. New games are made online to imitate board games. Turn based strategy games are effectively a board game, being able to move units a set amount of hexes before your turn is over etc.
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