The History of Monopoly

The leading expert on all things Monopoly gives us the history of the Monopoly game, its explosive growth since Parker Brothers introduced it in 1935 and the global impact it has had more than seventy years later with more than 200,000,000 copies sold worldwide and countless special editions of the game from The Simpsons to Star Wars. Laura's guest is Philip Orbanes, president of the specialty games company Winning Moves. He was formerly a Senior Vice-President of Research and Development at Parker Brothers and is now a consulting member of the board of directors for Hasbro Games. He has been the chief judge at Monopoly championships for almost thirty years and has written several books, his latest being "Monopoly: America's Game".