Entertaining Machines

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Entertaining Machines
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• Raff and Gorman, ca. 1896

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L'Arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat,
Lumiere Brothers (1895)
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Phonograph (1877)
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Alexander Graham Bell (1876)
The telephone (1876)
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• Early phone operators were young men, typically
  the age of the newspaper boy
• After a brief time of this employment convention,
  it was found that their manners on the phone were
  too brusque
• They were subsequently replaced with women, which
  became the standard.

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From Christianity to Commerce
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New York Stock Exchange (1903)
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• George Parker was a board game enthusiast
• He played many games of this era, including
  Mansion of Happiness
• He thought games should be fun and not
  instructional
• His first game, Banking, was a game of high
  finance, published in 1883.

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Advergaming
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The Game of Playing Department Store McLoughlin
Bros. (1898)
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George Parker tests games with the Pastime Girls
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YWCA
Suffrage
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• Invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, physical
  education instructor at YMCA Training School in
  Springfield, MA.
• Sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his
  students fit during the long New England winters.

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Chaffee Sheflow (1897)
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The Landlord Game (1904)

• Patented by Lizzie Magie, a Quaker, in 1904
• Based on movement lead by Henry George which
  supported the theory that the renting of land and
  real estate produced an unearned increase in land
  values that profited a few individuals
  (landlords) rather than the majority of the
  people (tenants).
• Game spread with folk variations among the Quaker
  community

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Stock Market Crash/ Depression 1929
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• Finance (1932), Designed by Dan Layman, published
  by Electronic Laboratories, Inc.

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• The Great Monopoly Swindle
• For many years, the folklore was that Charles
  Darrow invented Monopoly (patent shown at left)
  however, the evidence now suggests that he had
  played a variation of The Landlord game on which
  he based his design.
• After a failed first attempt, he eventually sold
  the game to Parker Brothers, who bought up all
  competing patents (including TLG), and created
  the first blockbuster board game.
• Darrow collected royalties for every unit sold.