The Landlord's Game copyright. Surviving copies of "The Landlord's Game" by Parker Brothers is considered by many the rarest of all 20th century board games. Parker Brothers pushed her game aside for Darrow's by 1936. Magie then did two interviews with copies of the original board with "The Washington Post" and "The Evening Star" to show that Darrow was not the inventor of the "Monopoly" game. In 1937, "Carnival" was published based on the 1904 version. Parker Brothers published their edition of the game in 1939. In a 2004 episode of PBS' "History Detectives" (title: "Monopoly; Japanese Internment Camp Artwork; The Lewis and
Parker Brothers and "", and more. In early 1983, Parker Brothers spent US$15 million establishing a book publishing branch; their first titles featured the American Greetings franchises, Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake. The branch published twelve titles by February 1984; sales of these books totalled 3.5 million units. Parker Brothers also operated a record label around the same time; one of its releases, based on Coleco's Cabbage Patch Kids and involving Tom and Stephen Chapin titled "Cabbage Patch Dreams", was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in July 1984. In 1985, General Mills merged the company with their