Play money
Play money, toy money, or formally ludic money is money that functions as a toy or a token in a game or when playing.[1]
The first such toy money was printed in 1880 by the Milton Bradley Toys company, and was actually a teaching tool, distributed to schools so that children could play at commercial transactions and learn skills for reckoning change, recognizing coins, and budgeting purchases.[2]
The rules of play money usually follow the same lines as they do for real money: counterfeiting is considered cheating at a game.[2]
Although
The owners of
As a form of escapism, to a fantasy world where people were not poor, games with play money were popular during the Great Depression, but their popularity waned afterwards over the decades.[5] A further decline in popularity has occurred because inflation has placed most coins of actual currencies within the spending abilities of children, obviating the need for play money as a cheap substitute.[5]
Play money also encompasses
Games that use play paper money
- Careers
- Finance
- Game of Life
- Monopoly
- Pay Day
Games that use play coins
References
- ^ Goggin 2009, p. 127.
- ^ a b Goggin 2009, p. 128.
- ^ Goggin 2009, p. 129.
- ^ Fatsis 2002, p. 170.
- ^ a b c Goggin 2009, p. 130.
- ^ Aarseth 2014, p. 614.
- ^ a b Goggin 2009, p. 131.
Sources
- Goggin, Joyce (2009). "Fantasy and Finance: Play Money and Computer Game Culture". In Chaney, Joseph R.; McAllister, Ken S.; Ruggill, Judd Ethan (eds.). The Computer Culture Reader. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 125–136. ISBN 9781443806664.
- Fatsis, Stefan (2002). "The Owners". Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble. Random House. ISBN 9780224060615.
- Aarseth, Espen (2014). "Ontology". In Wolf, Mark J.P.; Perron, Bernard (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies. Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions. Routledge. ISBN 9781136290503.
Further reading
- "Milton Bradley's Educational Toy Money". The E-Sylum. Vol. 19, no. 6. Numismatic Bibliomania Society. 2016-02-07.
See also
External links
- Media related to Play money at Wikimedia Commons