Here’s a lovely specimen I hadn’t seen before: a board game released in 1970 about Nixon’s then-forthcoming (and ill-fated) reelection. The game seems to resemble Monopoly, although its unclear how the game works from just the board.

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According to the game’s Board Game Geek entry, the game’s events (driven by Event and Media cards) “are so heavily tilted against Nixon the game might have been better titled How can Nixon win?

(via Retroist)

published January 14, 2010

Comments

  1. Simon B.

    Funny and historically interesting ! I just saw some copy of this old piece on ebay. 🙂