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If only this were just a game ... Credit: Masons News Service
Hey, kids -- wanna experience the adventure and danger of offshore drilling?
The payoff? Piles of cash! The risk? Eh, the occasional oil spill.
In the 1970s board game BP Offshore Oil Strike, up to four players explore for oil, and the first tycoon to earn $120 million wins, U.K.'s Metro reports. Unfortunately, your luck changes if you get this hazard card: "Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil-slick clean up costs. Pay $1 million."
"The parallels between the game and the current crisis ... are so spooky," says Alan Goldsmith, owner of The House On The Hill Toy Museum in Stansted, England, which received a copy of the game from a private collector. Goldsmith tells Metro the game wasn't popular when it was released.
BP oil spills are still unpopular, but the damage estimate is way off: So far BP has spent an estimated $3 billion on the Deep Water Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico spill.
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