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Bradley printed and personally sold a new parlour game, The Checkered Game of Life, which became so profitable that he formed Milton Bradley and Company (1864) to print games and game manuals
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  great information for how the game came about
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">great information for how the game came about</div>
  
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In 1860, Mr. Milton Bradley was a successful lithographer whose major product was a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. When Mr. Lincoln grew his trademark beard, Bradley's clean-shaven portrait was no longer popular. Out of desperation, Mr. Bradley printed up several copies of a game he'd invented called, "The Checkered Game of Life." Its immediate popularity put Milton Bradley in the game business. This was Milton Bradley's first game. He sold 45,000 copies of the game by the end of the year.
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Candy Land, Chutes and L
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adders, Mouse Trap, and Cootie
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didn’t set out to be a game maker
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trained as a draftsman, drawing plans for railroad cars
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lithography business in 1860.
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Bradley became a game maker fortuitously
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Playing a board game with a friend, he had an idea for one of his own.
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He was an early advocate of the emerging kindergarten movement started by Friedrich Fröbel in Germany. Fröbel used toys, called Fröbel’s gifts, to spark the imagination of young children
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pastime and Puritanical preparation rolled into one.
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forty-thousand copies
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beginning of the Civil War
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Soldiers got bored. And a reasonably priced game kit was just what they needed.
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Charitable organizations bought and distributed kits made by Bradley.
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players moved pieces on a converted checkerboard, with labels added to the squares. Landing on the square labeled “industry” transported a player to the square labeled “wealth”. “Gambling” led to “ruin”; “intemperance” to “poverty.” The game was called the “Checkered Game of Life.”
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embraced the idea, and supplied blossoming kindergartens with educational toys.
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he continued to produce educational toys even when it put his business at risk
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Milton Bradley
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orn November 8 1836 – Died May 30 1911
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inventor of the Checkered Game of Life
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wanted to create
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Civil War dominating America
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counteract the dour national mood
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provide both factual instruction and moral advice to young people.
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Bradley sold 40,000 copies of the game in the first year.
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invented other games, including The Smashed-Up Locomotive, Croquet Bridge, and mechanical puzzles. Additionally, he printed manuals for games, and the rules he established are still used today.
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Milton Bradley Company prospered until the late 20th century
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1984, Hasbro, Inc. acquired the company and its subsidiary, Playskool, Inc
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Born in Vienna
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mechanical draftsman and patent agent, but became interested in lithography, he opened his own business – the Milton Bradley Company – in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860.
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