Critical Games Studies: Games Britannia Part 2

Monopolies and Mergers
This is part 2 of this mini-series on Games Britannia presented by Benjamin Woolley.

In part too Benjamin traces the surprising political and social impact the board games had on Britain over the past 200 years. Britain developed the idea of the board game as an instrument of  moral instruction and exported it to America. In America it was made to promote the American Dream of free enterprise and economic success.

The documentary then went onto Monopoly, the best selling board game ever made, and how it was invented in America yet Monopoly is based on an English board known as the game for landlords, politics and communist game. After this Cluedo and Scrabble were then looked into as they are very popular games even to this day.

In present day we are in the Information Age and most British games designers have not become video games designers and leaving board games to American designers.

This is the end of this mini-series, I learnt a lot from these episodes and can see how much games have developed since the start of humans themselves.