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It was an offer she couldn't refuse. As for that "legend" on Hasbro's website, that was even easier for Parker Brothers. They just had their fictional spokesperson Mr. Monopoly make it up to better suit their image of a family-friendly monopoly.

The fact that they pulled all this off during the Great Depression, seriously, that takes balls. At long last, Mr. Monopoly shows his true face. Long before Trivial Pursuit famously became the bane of George Costanza, its distributors found themselves in the middle of a damning lawsuit. It turned out as many as one third of the questions in the game were lifted from the book Super Trivia, vol.

II by Fred L. Which, in a way, invalidates every victory your asshole older cousin ever claimed. How do we know this? Because Worth deliberately slipped an error into his book to catch any would-be plagiarists. Sure enough, when Trivial Pursuit hit the stores, that one bad answer turned up on the cards Detective Columbo's first name is Frank, not Philiip.

This seemed like a key point to Worth, since, you know, trivia was the entire point of the game. He sued. Unfortunately for Worth, Trivial Pursuit foiled his clever plan -- the game's creators, Scott Abbott and Chris Haney, successfully convinced every lower court that being both lazy and stupid was not a crime now that they were rich. Worth took his case all the way to the US Supreme Court, figuring that writing a third of their material for them entitled him to a cut of the game's gargantuan profits "Trivial Pursuit" was basically the national pastime in the 80s.

But the creators' argument which the court agreed with was that you can't copyright facts. It's the same reason you can't copyright a phone book -- those numbers belong to everybody, even if somebody else spent hundreds of hours assembling and researching them. A favorite with preschoolers, Chutes and Ladders is billed by Hasbro as a game about "rewards and consequences.

Dick around and down the chutes you go. For those of you who are British, you may be familiar with the game's foreign incarnation: Snakes and Ladders. The British Empire was once in the business of terrorizing India and subsequently robbing it of everything good to come out of that country.

Snakes and Ladders was one of those things. Over there, the game was known as Vaikuntapaali or Paramapada Sopanam, which meant "the ladder to salvation. Sure enough, all this "salvation" business has to do with Hinduism, and all those snakes scattered across the board are temptations. Except that, in this version, landing on a snake's head didn't just send you back a few squares. The idea is that for each temptation you land on you die and have to go through life all over again.

Vaikuntapaali was meant to illustrate how even a successful life can be ruined at the zero-hour due to one small screw up. Some of its original squares of "evil" included disobedience, vanity, vulgarity, theft, lying, drunkenness, and debt. As you advance through the game, you have to contend with still greater challenges such as rage, greed, pride, murder, and, yes, lust.

The original game box. As though the game we know today isn't frustrating enough, in the Indian original it is virtually impossible to advance to the end without landing on at least several temptations.

It's almost as if whoever came up with this fun party game viewed everyone as some kind of a Hell-worthy sinner, especially those with the unfortunate luck to land on temptation after temptation for eternity. Discover other secretly disturbing toys in our New York Times bestselling book. The use of these characters and perhaps others as side characters presents Rocksteady with a valuable path to capitalize on the movie's popularity and attract buyers outside of the established Batman: Arkham fanbase.

While utilizing The Suicide Squad's popularity presents an exciting opportunity for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's characters , it also offers the chance to explore other unknown villains. One of the most significant selling points for the film included the use of lesser-known characters like Blackguard, TDK, and Javelin.

The willingness to kill characters has always attracted readership in Suicide Squad comic books, but the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League game can't afford to kill off its playable characters. Instead, introducing popular side characters from The Suicide Squad and the Batman: Arkham games present stakes usually unavailable from hero-based games, where the objective is to save everyone. While the powers of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Flash are incredibly well-known, the characters in the Suicide Squad aren't nearly as popular and feature some exciting changes from the comics.

Although players can't control the Justice League during the campaign, they can still experience what criminals feel on the receiving end of Superman's flight, laser eyes, super strength, and super speed.

In many ways, Kill the Justice League prevents an overused arsenal of superpowers from making the game's mechanics repetitive and uncreative. Speed, strength, and magic are relatively normal superpowers, but the Suicide Squad features limited powers and relies more on their wits, raw talent, and survivability. Like most comic book characters, Captain Boomerang has several iterations and identities, but Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Captain Boomerang introduces some changes to the character, including imbuing him with super speed.

Similarly, Rocksteady gave King Shark more intelligence than the character usually shows in comic books and movies, as the character can wield heavy machinery. Harley Quinn and Deadshot haven't changed much from their Batman: Arkham debuts and depend more on raw skills and talents. As a result, the entirety of Task Force X is severely outmatched against the Justice League, making the oncoming battles an exciting match-up. Batman: Arkham Knight brought a satisfying ending to Batman's story, and continuously expanding on the Dark Knight's legacy could risk sullying a beloved franchise.

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