MSSP Game CC-0001
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Trench Football Board Game
Collection — Container: MSSP Game CC-0001
Identifier: MSSP_10092
Scope and Contents
British-made patriotic manual dexterity marble maze board game simulating trench warfare on the western front in World War One. The object of the game is to maneuver a small metal ball around a recessed playing board and avoid holes distributed around the course. Players win the game by navigating the ball around the course and into the goal which is guarded by a larger hole. Most of the holes on the course are accompanied by caricatures of German military commanders: “Little Willie”...
Dates:
c. 1915
The Silver Bullet; Or the Road to Berlin Board Game
Collection — Container: MSSP Game CC-0001
Identifier: MSSP_10091
Scope and Contents
British-made patriotic manual dexterity marble maze board game depicting the beginning of World War One and charting an imagined British and Allied military campaign to capture Berlin, the German capital . The object of the game is to maneuver a small metal ball around a recessed playing board and avoid holes distributed around the course. Players win the game by navigating the ball around the course to “Berlin” at the top of the board. The start of the course is labeled “To Berlin” with an...
Dates:
c. 1914
Atomic Bomb Board Game
Collection — Container: MSSP Game CC-0001
Identifier: MSSP 10105
Scope and Contents
American-made manual dexterity board game depicting the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945. The object of the game is to maneuver two plastic capsules containing a weighted metal ball into holes in a map of Japan representing Hisoshima and Nagasaki, the two cities destroyed by atomic bombs dropped by the United States. Tokyo is also labeled on the map without any corresponding target hole. The black and yellow cardboard surface of the game features a map of Japan and an oversized bomb labeled...
Dates:
c. 1946