Titanic: The Board Game Titanic: The Board Game Titanic: The Board Game is a board-game designed by Sandra Gentry and Valen Brost and published by Universal Games in America and was available via license by Universal Games, in Great Britain and in France between 1998 and 1999. The game revolves around the sinking of RMS "Titanic". An updated version, "Titanic: The Board Game Centennial Edition", will be released by Universal Games, and marketed by Universal Toys, Inc., NV, and the John Hansen Co., in fall of 2012. The six players take the role of six fictitious passengers aboard the RMS "Titanic": Moving around the
Board game Networks and Urban Spaces: The Case of the Telegraph Messenger Boy", that families who could afford the deluxe version of the game in its chromolithographed, wood-sided box would not "have sent their sons out for such a rough apprenticeship in the working world." Margaret Hofer described the period of 1880s–1920s as "The Golden Age" of board gaming in America. Board game popularity was boosted, like that of many items, through mass production, which made them cheaper and more easily available. Although there are no detailed statistics, some scholars suggest that the 20th century saw a decline in the popularity of