History of the World (board game) the number of armies it gets, its capital or starting location in parentheses, and the seas it can navigate in parentheses. Each epoch there is a minor empire and a kingdom that can be played as event cards, and these are listed at the bottom of the epoch. History of the World (board game) History of the World (often abbreviated HotW) is a board game designed by Ragnar Brothers and originally published in 1991. It is played by up to six different players in seven different epochs; each player playing a different empire in each epoch. The first edition of
Trivial Pursuit made-for-television movie entitled "Breaking all the Rules: The Creation of Trivial Pursuit" aired. Treated largely as a comedy, the movie featured the music of Jimmy Buffett and portrayed the creators of the game as three beer-loving Canadians. In Spain, a version of the show called "Trivial Pursuit: Spain Plays" premiered in September 2008 on Antena 3. In 1984, Bally Sente released a "Trivial Pursuit" arcade game. Like the board game, several variants were also released. British software company Domark released a home computer version (billed as "Trivial Pursuit: The Computer Game") for multiple formats during the 1980s. This version included