In the 1950s Parker Brothers took a French game called "Conquest of the World" & turned it into this
Players... [DOC] [TLE] Common Room Games - Bloomington - CCGs, RPGs, & Miniatures ... [PAR] Where his father's system broke turns into one-minute intervals, Reiswitz the 
Younger's broke ... his new board game The Checkered Game of Life (commonly 
known as Life).