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 As times continued to change, so did board games. America was suffering through depression and poverty when Monopoly was introduced in 1935. The
object of the game was to acquire money and property. It was a big success. Game companies continued to create games based on popular pastimes, like
sports and politics. However, the biggest influence on the popularity of board games was television.
Between 1948 and 1958, Americans spent over $15 billion on televisions sets. Game companies were worried that watching television would replace playing
board games, so they started making games based on the TV shows kids liked. The first of these was a Hopalong Cassidy game by Milton Bradley. Hopalong
Cassidy was a cowboy star on TV in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The game was a hit and soon there were hundreds of games based on television. Board
games were as popular as ever.
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