Boxed Game of Life board game made in Ireland by Milton Bradley in 1984

Board game with multiple paper, card and plastic components.

Box with separate lid and base. The lid is printed with basic instructions and photographs of the game being played. The base is plain white.

Colour printed game board. The board is double layered with cut-out areas and has a spine to accommodate three 3-D plastic 'mountains', a 'toll bridge, the wheel of fortune and seven plastic buildings when it is folded in half. The plastic elements are secured to the board with tabs inserted at cut-out openings in the board. They are inserted by the consumer and can be removed when the game is not being plated. The mountains and toll bridge have board game space stickers which continue the game sequence from the printed card board to the plastic pathways. The seven white plastic buildings are loose and have been removed and placed in a separate bag. The mountains, toll and wheel of fortune remain inserted in the board.

Blue plastic money rack with 10 slots for 10 different denominations of bank notes.

Paper instructions plamphlet. Blue cover with 11 white pages, illustrations and text printed in blue.

Two white plastic flags used to chose numbers in the Wheel of Fortune.

Six plastic car shaped counters. Moulded in red, blue, black, yellow, green and white plastic. Each car has six holes for inserting either pink or blue plastic pegs.

Thirty pink and thirty blue plastic pegs. Some pegs are loose and others are attached to the sprues.

Seven hollow white plastic buildings, probably polystyrene. Each building is numbered and corresponds to a slot on the game board, building number 1 being placed at the start of the game, the remaining buildings placed chronologically along the gaming path ending with the Country Cottage. Building number 1 represents the University, number 2 a church, number 3 a cottage, number 4 a large office or home, number 5 a factory, number 6 the Millionaire's Mansion and number 7 the Country Cottage. The buildings are secured to the game board with a small plastic tab which sits between the two layers of the board.

Promissory Notes, Life Insurance, Car Insurance and Fire Insurance notes and Share Certificates for the Game of Life board game. Twenty Promissory Notes: beige paper with red ink text and illustrations on one side and eight notes of each insurance policies and share certificates: beige paper with black ink text and illustration on one side.

Money for the Game of Life board game made. Fifty pink 1.000 notes, fifty orange 5.000 notes, fifty pale green 10.000 notes, forty pale yellow 50.000 notes and 39 beige 100.000 notes. All notes are printed on one side with black ink the denomination, ornate engraving and a portrait of a man with beard and moustache.

Given by Mrs S McLachan

Boxed Game of Life board game made in Ireland by Milton Bradley in 1984.

This version of the Game of Life was originally developed in 1960 and published by Milton Bradley. The game is one of chance. Each player (up to six) must spin the Wheel of Fortune and randomly select cards prompting the player to move along the gaming path which simulates the life of the player from university to retirement age. The aim of the game is to be the player who has accumulated the most money by the time they reach retirement.

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