Talk:Careers (board game)

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[edit] park bench/unemployment office

The first edition of Careers has a 'Park Bench' corner space, (i.e. the jobless player is temporarily homeless), which later editions softened or modernized into 'Unemployment Office', (the player has a safety net). It'd be interesting to read if this change was the intent of J. C. Brown, or later revisers.

Such softening changes lessen what seems like subversive or perhaps unintentional black humor that gives charm to such games. A comparable example is the 'REVENGE' space in early Milton Bradley LIFE games. Counter example: Monopoly still retains its unforgiving bankruptcies and jail.

Are such changes related, and if so what conditions underlay those changes? There may be an encyclopedic phenomenon in there somewhere. --AC (talk) 08:17, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

I have removed the game rules, which are an obvious copy of those published with the game. Unsubtly, the telltale word "Copyright" (or the copyright symbol) has been removed from the text, leaving a loose "1971" dangling. --John Cowan (talk) 14:45, 13 March 2008 (UTC)