Monopoly game

It was 1934, the height of the Great Depression, when Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Pennsylvania, took what he called the MONOPOLY game to the executives at Parker Brothers. Like many other Americans, Charles Darrow was unemployed at the time ... People loved the game that would eventually become the highest selling board game in history, even though the “legend” of its invention would soon be proven as false.

 http://www.mortaljourney.com/2010/11/1930-trends/monopoly-board-game

~~~This board game let players to buy property. And if a player is in luck, he will become the wealthiest player in the game.  That is the ultimate goal of this game: become rich instantly, not even overnight.  With paper money on hand, it allows players to fantasize a better life.  Through phony transactions with the banker, it lifts the status of the players.  Thus, this game fabricates solace for all the players during 1930s.