Reversi commercial success. The name was selected by Hasegawa as a reference to the Shakespearean play "Othello, the Moor of Venice", referring to the conflict between the Moor Othello and Iago, and more controversially, to the unfolding drama between Othello, who is black, and Desdemona, who is white. The green color of the board is inspired by the image of the general Othello, valiantly leading his battle in a green field. It can also be likened to a jealousy competition (jealousy being the central theme in Shakespeare's play, which popularized the term "green-eyed monster"), since players engulf the pieces of the
Monster from Green Hell in this film. Another of the mechanical bug toys in this line included a giant 'ant' or 'spider' which was designed after the giant ants in the film "Them!", 'The Spooky Spider'. Monster from Green Hell Monster from Green Hell is a 1958 science fiction B movie released on Dec. 12, 1958 as a double feature with the English-dubbed, re-edited version of the Japanese kaiju film "Half Human". In preparation for sending a manned rocket into space, American scientists Dr. Quent Brady and Dan Morgan are put in charge of a program that sends various animals and insects into space