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Strypey | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Anyone remember a game called DownFall? It was sold under the name of Milton Bradley, inventor of The Game of Life. Although by the mid-1980s was just a brand name of Hasbro.

Anyway, it involved dropping plastic tokens through a series of plastic cogs, which players took turns to operate. Hoping each time that their moves would allow their tokens to drop, but not the opponent's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBOJe7cPv8A&t=13

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#games #BoardGames #Downfall #MiltonBradley #Hasbro

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Trinsec | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @58db300d Oooh, I remember that game. We had a physical version of it in my childhood. Probably still is in a closet somewhere. 😀
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Strypey | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Anyway, the reason I bring up Downfall is that I was trying to think of simple but roughly accurate model of the way market economies work. One with a colourful, physical model, so that examples of economic activity could even be demonstrated on it for a web video.

Downfall seems perfect.

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#economics #EconomicModels