The Landlord's Game Magie for the Landlord Game. Adgame Company (Inc.) published "Landlord's Game and Prosperity" under this patent in 1932. Robert Baron had Parker Brothers design its own version, "Fortune", before negotiation to purchase her patents in case the discussion fell apart or she sold to another potential buyer, Dave Knapp, publisher of "Finance". Magie held the patent until 1935, when she sold it to Parker Brothers for $500. The company had recently started distributing "Monopoly", which it purchased from Charles Darrow who claimed to have invented it. The company only printed a very small run of the game to secure the
History of the board game Monopoly sole inventor of the game, but sought out an affidavit by Darrow to repeat his statements to the contrary, and thus bolster their claim to the game. Parker Brothers subsequently decided to buy out Magie's 1924 patent and the copyrights of other commercial variants of the game to claim that it had legitimate undisputed rights to the game. Robert Barton, president of Parker Brothers, bought the rights to "Finance" from Knapp Electric later in 1935. "Finance" would be redeveloped, updated, and continued to be sold by Parker Brothers into the 1970s. Other board games based on a similar principle, such