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Milton Bradley Company or simply Milton Bradley (MB) was an American board game manufacturer established by Milton Bradley (1836-1911) in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860. In 1920, it absorbed the game production of McLoughlin Brothers, formerly the largest game manufacturer in the United States.
Milton Bradley (November 8, 1836 – May 30, 1911) was an American business magnate, game pioneer and publisher, credited by many with launching the board game industry, with his eponymous enterprise, which was purchased by Hasbro in 1984, and folded in 1998.
Founded in 1860, Milton Bradley Company is the oldest game manufacturer in the United States. Over the years Milton Bradley has marketed such classics as The Game of Life, Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Twister, and Yahtzee. Since 1984 the company has operated as a division of the world's largest toy company, Hasbro, Inc.
Milton Bradley is an American game company founded in 1860 and owned by Hasbro since 1984. It publishes board games and video games, and has a history of collaborating with Games Workshop and being sued for plagiarism.
- THE COMPANY MIGHT NEVER HAVE BEEN FOUNDED IF LINCOLN HADN'T GROWN A BEARD. Before lithographer Milton Bradley launched his board game company, his most successful work was a portrait he’d drawn of a clean-shaven Abraham Lincoln.
- THE COMPANY'S FIRST GAME WAS THE CHECKERED GAME OF LIFE. Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain. Bradley’s first game had a strong moralizing purpose: Landing on negative squares like “crime” and “idleness” would move players back in “life,” while positive squares like “honesty” and “bravery” would move them towards “happy old age.”
- BRADLEY INSISTED ON GIVING AWAY FREE SCHOOL SUPPLIES—AGAINST THE WISHES OF HIS BUSINESS PARTNERS. Starting in 1869, company founder Milton Bradley began producing and distributing free supplies (including paints, papers, and geometric toys) to kindergartens in Springfield, Massachusetts, where the company was located.
- THE FIRST TRAVEL-SIZED GAMES WERE MADE FOR BORED SOLDIERS DURING THE CIVIL WAR. When the Civil War broke out, Milton Bradley briefly considered building weapons for the Union soldiers.
Milton Bradley Inc. is well known as the producer of such popular American games as Chutes and Ladders, Parcheesi, The Game of Life, and Yahtzee. The company was founded in 1860 by a lithographer named Milton Bradley who, during the Civil War, purchased a game called The Checkered Game of Life from an inventor.
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Milton Bradley Company or simply Milton Bradley (MB) was an American board game manufacturer established by Milton Bradley (1836-1911) in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860. In 1920, it absorbed the game production of McLoughlin Brothers, formerly the largest game manufacturer in the United States.
