History of the board game Monopoly and the development of that land. By 1933, a board game had been created much like the version of "Monopoly" sold by Parker Brothers and its related companies through the rest of the 20th century, and into the 21st. Several people, mostly in the Midwestern United States and near the East Coast, contributed to the game's design and evolution. By the 1970s, the idea that the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore; it was printed in the game's instructions for many years, in a 1974 book devoted to "Monopoly", and was cited in a
Scrabble (game show) Clark Productions and MCA TV called "Double Up" which was not picked up). The latter two returned in 1988, joined by Vicki Lawrence, Jim Lange, Wink Martindale, and Jeff MacGregor. Summers hosted during the 1987 week when Chuck Woolery played segments of the game. A board game based on this version was released by Selchow & Righter as "TV Scrabble" in 1987. It was the only home version which was originally a board game itself until "Trivial Pursuit: Game Show" released by Parker Brothers in 1993 and "Celebrity Name Game" released by "Playmonster" (formerly "Patch") in 2016. All episodes still