Board game riches games that permitted players to emulate the capitalist heroes of the age. One of the first such games, "The Game of the District Messenger Boy", encouraged the idea that the lowliest messenger boy could ascend the corporate ladder to its topmost rung. Such games insinuated that the accumulation of wealth brought increased social status. Competitive capitalistic games culminated in 1935 with "Monopoly", the most commercially successful board game in U.S. history. McLoughlin Brothers published similar games based on the telegraph boy theme including "Game of the Telegraph Boy, or Merit Rewarded" (1888). Greg Downey notes in his essay, "Information
Lost Treasure (board game) Lost Treasure (board game) Lost Treasure is a board game published in 1982 by Parker Brothers. Billed as an electronic deep-sea diving game, "Lost Treasure" centers on the search for sunken treasure chests full of gold and silver. "Lost Treasure" is a guessing game that centers on a handheld electronic device known as the Digital Dive Control Center. The game came at a transformational moment in the industry, when the home video game console was starting to dominate sales. Parker Brothers made aggressive moves into that market by developing game cartridges for the Atari 2500 and Intellivision systems, featuring characters